In today’s episode, I go over 3 simple tips to improve your eye health. These are easy, everyday changes you can make to improve your overall physical, mental, and eye health over time. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

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Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. And I want to welcome you to my podcast today. So this is a short one, three i tips that can help your vision, I get this question a lot. So I thought I would just put it out there for everybody. So the first AI tip is to get 30 to 60 minutes of natural sunlight every day. Now, why is that? Well, we need natural sunlight, not only for our eyes, but for our entire body, you know, the research out there is pretty bulletproof, in that when we get natural light into our eyes and into our body, our mood is better, we have more energy, we have less inflammation. So there are many benefits to getting a hit of sunlight every day. Now I know the opposite argument is well, if you get out into the sun, it’s going to cause things like cataracts and skin cancer. And I would say that if you’re a construction worker or a farmer, and you’re out in the sun 79 hours a day, of course you want to protect yourself. But in my opinion, I think that getting that 30 to 60 minutes of natural sunlight every day is really important. And you can do so by wearing a hat. You can certainly wear protective clothes if you need to. But I would suggest doing it without sunglasses doing it without protective lenses. I like going out at sunrise or sunset though it’s a little less intense where the sun is, is not going to burn you or overwhelm you and especially in the wintertime right now. I think it’s super important to avoid seasonal affective disorder, which affects a lot of people.

Getting that hit of 30 to 60 minutes of natural sunlight every day is really helpful. The second tip I would recommend would be to stop using your digital screens 30 to 60 minutes before bed my preference would be one hour before bed, turn off your digital devices. So you have a transition time before you go to sleep. And of course in the evening anytime after 6pm I would definitely wear your blue blockers. Make sure you’re getting you know the natural ingredients we talked about like lutein, zeaxanthin and asters Anthon. Those carotenoids protect your Macula from both damaging ultraviolet light and blue light. And the third tip would be is really simple. eat an avocado a day. You know avocados, first of all have healthy fats in it. But they also contain something called lutein. lutein is that carotenoid that really protects your macula. And if you’re sitting in front of a screen all day, you are more susceptible to at the very least eyestrain headaches, eye fatigue. And of course, if you’ve had cataract surgery, a lot of times the intraocular lens that put in the eye doesn’t have any blue light protection so you’re more susceptible to getting conditions like macular degeneration. And I see it clinically all the time where people get cataract surgery. And then a year later, they’re developing macular degeneration because they weren’t told that there’s no blue light protection in the interocular lens and they weren’t wearing a blue-blocking prescription. So those are my three eye tips today. I want to thank you for joining us. Take care everybody