Did Kombucha Heal My Husband’s Eyes?

The research¹ suggests that many of kombucha's health benefits are attributed to its antioxidant activity. Antioxidants are known to prevent many diseases caused by free radicals, such as disorders of the eyes (retinal degeneration, cataracts), skin (dermatitis, psoriasis, aging), and more. So I told this to Ron and handed him a glass of my homemade kombucha. Much to my surprise, he loved it. He started drinking it every day. I was very excited and started making gallons of it and he was drinking it several times a day.
Well, he had the surgery for the first eye. But then something happened. They kept scheduling appointments because they said the other eye had the same fast-growing cataract and within a few months he would need the surgery. But at every appointment, they would check his eye and the doctor would set back in his chair and say, "Huh, it stopped growing. What would make that cataract stop growing? I've never seen anything like that. Huh???"

Fast forward twenty-three years and it is still the same. He's never had surgery in the other eye and is a faithful daily drinker of kombucha. Actually, he loves kombucha now. I have no idea for sure what happened. Was it the kombucha? It was the only thing he had changed in his diet. Was his ecosystem changing inside, making him better able to get nutrients to his cells? I don't know, but I am thankful . . . thankful for the invisible world of microorganisms that have made themselves known to me and in the process made us well. It opened a whole new world for my husband and made him connect to the fact that what we eat and drink makes the cells of our body and contributes to health or disease. It was after this that he started embracing other cultured foods and became a convert. Without a doubt, he knows that all the cultured foods have made a difference in his life and without them, he doesn't feel as good. I never had to convince him - these foods speak for themselves as they heal us and make us well.