1. Posted by Anne C on Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 6:50 am PST

My mom told me that her eye color changed gradually over the time she experienced 7 pregnancies spaced out over 15 years. Indeed, her eyes were more brown before; now they have a yellowish-brown look. Why is this?

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2. Posted by jonathansmith_88 on Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 7:42 am PST

i was born with blue eyes, but as i got older they changed to a hazlebrown color, and depending on my mood they will change to light brown, dark brown, blue, gray, and green.

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3. Posted by ccpippi on Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 8:27 am PST

My eye color changed from green to blue in my late 20`s

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4. Posted by hogfarmer2002 on Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 8:34 am PST

I've never thought about whether eye color changes as we age. I have posed a similar question to various medical personnel previously as to why eye color could change drastically while a person was on a respirator/ventilator and never received a satisfactory answer. So....Dr. Weil....can you explain why a dying person's eyes could change from deep brown to sky blue while they were on a respirator?! I'd really like to know. The medical staff attending to the dying person in question acted as if all was normal, although no one else seems to think it's a common event. And would that have meant a loss of vision had the person recovered?

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5. Posted by SweetOne on Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 8:30 pm PST

#2 Jonathan - Do your eyes really change according to mood? Try to see if they change according to what color shirt you're wearing. They might be reflecting the color of your clothes at any given time. My son also has hazel eyes, even though he was born with bright blue eyes. His eyes will change from gray, blue, green or light brown, depending on what he wears. I have brown eyes and my husband's eyes are blue. Eyes that change in early childhood are usually due to genetics.

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6. Posted by Amichitrance on Sat, Feb 23, 2008, 6:30 am PST

I was expecting to read about the yellow pigments caused by diet that I had heard about from Dr. Valerie Saxion's visit to my job at AAFES. I thought Dr. Weil would be talking more about nutrition and eyes, not about the aging effects of eye color due to sun exposure. Just like male birds that grow older, they lose their color that once was used to attract their mates.

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7. Posted by g w on Sat, Feb 23, 2008, 11:07 am PST

I had dark brown eyes as a child, but somewhere in my 20s they started slowly changing. For a while they were "striped" - brown around the pupil, then green and dark gray around the edge of the iris. These days (I'm 46) they are dark green with the gray at the outer edge of the iris, with just a bit of brown left around the pupils. I only know one other person whose eyes changed so drastically as an adult - we're both in good health, no major illnesses. Guess sometimes it just happens that way. In my case it's great - you just don't see many people with darker green eyes and I like them much better than the brown!

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8. Posted by kyle h on Sat, Feb 23, 2008, 11:31 pm PST

I can shange my eye color from brown to a light shade of yellow

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9. Posted by Kangaroo on Mon, Feb 25, 2008, 3:22 am PST

My eye colour changes dramatically-as in not just pigmentation but total colour. They go from brown to green every change of the season-so much so my friends notice each time. Could something be wrong?

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10. Posted by JG Wentworth on Mon, Jun 09, 2008, 11:00 am PDT

my eyes used to be dark brown and now they are green

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