Re: ATM Bilberry works - Feedback?

[Brian Nestel <blast@aloha.net>]

Hi:
In reading the posts about the effects of Bilberry products on night vision,
the real effect of bilberry and other items that contain anthocyanosides and
other precursors needed for the production of visual purple.
I don't know where the idea that bilberry and related items "Enhanced"
night vision came from. Bilberry and related products is
quoted as a cure for "poor/bad " night vision, in other words if you
took Bilberry you weren't going to be able to roost in a tree and
see meeses crawling through the underbush, just see normally what
your vision would support, I think the "Enhanced" came from certain
segments of society that have PP diets take took supplements and
could have normal night vision and that amazed the hell out of them.

Now one thing that does happen when you dose yourself with the 
proper dietary percursors is that the more anthocyanosides you have
in your body to make visual purple the more times you can recover
from lights that tend to bleach it out, so it enhances the length
of your night vision over a given period.
This is also part of semi-myth that WWII aviators used it to enhance 
their vision, it wasn't that they were enhancing their vision but
increasing the ability to recover their night vision, when they were
going on night bombing misssions, arriving at the targets they were
subjected to bright flares, bright flack bursts, giant searchlights, etc
and their VP was bleached out, and due to their freeliving life style
their night vision was virtually gone, so on the flight back they had
problems spotting enemy fighter planes and  they arrived back at 
poorly light landing fields in England CSS, had problems landing,
so the story the way I got it was they were given Bilberry Jam
sandwiches to help perserve their NV, not make them flying owls.

This is the main thing that tests that test night visual acuity 
and contrast sensitivity miss they don't measure the persistance
and ability to recover NV under adverse conditions. 
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