Dry eye relief from eating lot of cake. How to understand this?

I have chronically dry eyes, now for about 15 years, although they have gotten much worse in the last 5 years.

When I drink 2 litres (2.1 quart) of water or more a day my eyes are slightly better. I can even feel some moisture and coolness behind my left eyelid.

Yesterday, someone sent my family a cake. Even though I am on a mostly raw diet, I felt like having a spoon of it and did. My body urged me to have more and I ended up having a rather significant amount - about a quarter of the whole cake.

I felt my body becoming sluggish because of the sugar, but I also felt that the egg in the cake had done me some good.

In the next few hours my eyes felt much better. I felt the same sense of moistness and coolness that I feel when I am hydrated, but this time more than just slightly. After several weeks I experienced my eyes feeling and functioning near normal, without a sense of dryness or fatigue.

This lasted for 5-6 hours. Then it was time to sleep. I woke up in the morning and feel the dryness again.

Additionally, one of my long term health issues is a mild pressure or ache around the heart, which the doctors have been unable to diagnose. Most of the day it is not there, but I do feel it intermittently everyday for perhaps 2-3 hours. In the hours following the cake binge, this pressure came back.

How can I understand this experience?

I make sense of this in this way - my body needs fat. The egg yolk in the cake made me eat a lot of it. The fat gave moisture to my eyes - which was much needed. But the quality of this fat is not really good since it contains 50% saturated. I am not sure about this but it seems like the only fat which is healthy, that too if not taken in extremes, is unsaturated fat. Given the high degree of unhealthy fat in the cake, my heart issue came back for a while.

Lesson to be learnt - take more healthy fats from nuts and seeds.

Does this make sense?

PS: for the last fortnight I also have cooked food cravings. When I ask myself what I like about cooked food, I feel it is the warmth and softness of its texture. I have been wondering if this too is a need for fat. Could this be true? Tweet