Re: ATM Bilberry works - Feedback?

["B. Pepin" <atmjedit@conceptsnet.com>]

Brian,

Exactly my experience. Recovery from bright headlights, glaring planets ,
Moon in eyepiece, etc. etc. Not enhancement, but sustenance. I will ask an
acquaintance who was a Lancaster bombardier, later POW, about the military
part -- folk tradition supports this kind of casual use, in any case.

Barlow


----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Nestel <blast@aloha.net>
Cc: <atm@shore.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: ATM Bilberry works - Feedback?


>
> 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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