Dr. Leland Stillman launches a Monday Masterclass with health coach Amy Arp. They tackle listener questions about MSM absorption, contact lens effects on eye health, and access issues. Stillman notes rising ocular diseases may link to indoor time and contact lens use, but long-term comparative studies don't exist.
Chapters
Hello everyone, this is Dr. Stillman here with Amy Arp in our new Monday Masterclass format. We are excited to be doing this now. For those of you who don't know, Monday Masterclass has been a— I streamed it for a while to all the social media platforms, but that's not really in keeping with the title of this Substack, which is Dr. Stillman Uncensored. And shocking, I know, I can't be uncensored on social media. I just switch it to this format and we are going to be We're going to be doing this format indefinitely. We're open to your suggestions. We literally made this up 2 weeks ago, and so if you want something different, let us know. If you don't know what, um, the premium version of this is, we have a premium version of the Substack, and you will get access to a live recording of this where you can ask questions. And you can also ask questions that we will then go over in the Monday Master Class. And then we're going to be posting some of these with a free preview so you guys can get an idea of what the value is going to be. And then each week Amy's going to spend a little bit of time researching some of the questions you guys came up with and asked so that we can share more value with you all. So this is kind of like the Dr. Stillman Uncensored Research Service, if you will. So Amy, welcome.
Thank you. Hello. Nice to meet everyone.
I should give you an intro. So Amy has a master's in—
what's that? Physiology.
Medical physiology. Because she was on track to go to med school. You were in med school, weren't you?
Yeah, I was at the medical school getting the master's degree, and then I was planning to kind of go through, but then, you know, the situation—
so, and said no, and they said you're not welcome here.
Yes.
So now you get to skip the most miserable medical school part and just help people and with health coaching, right?
Yes, absolutely.
It's— don't worry, you're going to be light years ahead of your, your classmates, and you're going to have more fun doing it.
It's true.
All right. So questions we had this week, I posted the following questions under your MSM article, but we'll repeat here. And also for the premium, non-premium subscribers listening to this, you get all the protocols from the premium subscription. So Rosemary says, I'm having trouble connecting to your Fullscript account. There's links throughout the Substack to that. And I don't know why this is an issue for you. Um, so for MSM brands, I've been using Pure Encapsulations and, believe it or not, NOW. So NOW as a brand actually has a great reputation, and I know that from some behind-the-scenes people in the supplement world. So I've been using those and I'm really pleased with them. I've heard from people that there's junk MSM out there I don't know about that. I've not encountered a bad brand. Those are the two that I've tested and used myself. Okay, uh, I was of the understanding that MSM is a very hard molecule to absorb as it's very big, uh, so that may be the case, but one of the things that I explain in the MSM protocol is how we use high doses of it. So even if it is hard to absorb, we can overcome that. Okay. B asks, you know what, Amy, would you put on the list, would you look up how well MSM is absorbed through mucosal membranes?
Yes.
Awesome. B asks, I wear daily disposable contacts, I get early morning sun without them. Do you know if these types of contacts inhibit the eyes' ability to receive sunlight? I'd heard the disposable ones are better than others. Such an interesting Good question. So I am very concerned with what contacts are doing to the eye. We've had an explosion in ocular diseases in the last several decades that's coincided with our move indoors away from sunlight and the rise of contact lenses, sunglasses, glasses. We didn't have these illnesses before. If you look at some of the chemicals in contact lenses and contact lens solutions, I'm very wary of what they may be doing to the eye, and I don't want to alarm anyone. I don't want you to think that this means that contact lenses are bad, but I wonder about this. This is something I've never had the time to get into, and actually, Amy, this would be a great topic for you to do a little digging on. And a specific study that I would want to see that I really doubt they've done because the idiots in charge of academia don't do studies like this. With all due respect to them. Uh, what I've, um, noticed is they don't tend to do studies where, um— I'm going to zoom in so people can see this better. I just realized the print is like tiny over there on the screen. So, um, I find that they don't tend to do studies like this. The study I would want to see is contact lenses versus glasses, 10, 20, 30, 40 years. That is an incredibly impractical period of time to do a study on.
