Why Robert Downey Jr Likes Losing His Eyesight | Joe Rogan

So we're talking about losing eyesight. Yes. You actually take comfort in the fact that your eyesight is starting to dwindle? You want to chase it. At first I was like, I'm fine. Then I'm 42. Then it's like, let's try some 1's. Then it's 1, 2, 5's. Then it's 1, 5's. We don't know. I stopped because I have so many fucking glasses. Some of them are 1's, some of them are 2, 5's. It's like, it's like a... You know what I mean? Yeah, I do know what you mean. But what I appreciate is you know where you're at by what you're able to retain if you fight for it. And the things that are going no matter what you do. Now I've heard there's some Israeli guy who's got this app, probably from Laird, got this app and you do it and you get your eyesight back. And sometimes it's about, I don't need to try to use something to hold on to everything. I want to pick the five or seven things that I definitely want to hold on to. And I want to watch the rest of it go in and out with the tides. I agree with that in some ways, but if there was a real thing where you could get your eyesight back, I would definitely be on that. Well, LASIKs... That's not real. Well, LASIKs, there's several problems. You can get it if you have problems with your vision, but we have macular degeneration that's coming from age. Age-related macular degeneration. LASIKs doesn't really fix that. But I know people who are wearing glasses and then got LASIKs and they don't wear glasses anymore. Yes, that's a fact. But we never wore glasses. They get one eye too close up and one eye for distance. It's even more fun. Half the eye exams I've gotten wind up fucking me two weeks later, like these don't work. Yeah. What about the loss of a sense that you're accustomed to being fine annoys you? What about it? Yeah. I like being able to see things. Read labels in particular. Like how many of these fuckers am I supposed to take? You know, and what's in here? Yes. You know, like how many milligrams? What's in... What does that say? Are you doing this shit? But it's also funny to go up to like a little Lutron pad and have to go... Like that to me, it's just... It's a gas. Really? Interesting. Except the things you cannot change. Now, if someone comes in and says, Joe, Bob, I got it. We're done. Come over here. It's easy or it's a supplement or do this for two weeks or stop doing this, this and this. Then there's a trade-off. Yes. Well, I'm down for anything that actually works to make your eyesight come back. But I have heard of nothing. Everybody that I've heard of... This might be our project then. Because you care and I don't, so we have a nice balance. There's a guy named David Sinclair that I talked to. He's a professor at Harvard. Yeah. Is it MIT or the fuck is he? It's Harvard. He's... They're doing some work with people that have serious eye diseases and serious injuries. And they're actually injecting some form of bacteria that has been encoded with some miracle cure for degeneration. And they can detach retinas, fix things and... Incredible. Yeah. So they're working on some stuff. Yeah. So maybe in the future, you won't have twos and ones and 1.5s and... Yeah. What am I... I will... I have a lighted to greener pastures. I'm sure there's going to be other issues and hurdles that you're going to go eyesight. I don't know the fucking time that we have real shit going on here. Yeah. I'm sure too. I'm concerned about that.