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The Fitnessista Podcast: Healthy In Real Life

162: tips and strategies for Dry Eye with Dr. Dan Friederich

The Fitnessista Podcast: Healthy In Real Life

Gina Harney

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9522 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

I found Dr. Friederich through his product, Eyeganics, which is the ONLY certified organic eye drop in the entire world. When I found Eyeganics, I wanted to cry happy tears because I've been putting sketchy eye drops in my eyes for almost an entire year. I'm so grateful for the works he's doing, and he does an incredible job educating others, serving patients in his practice, as well as creating products with integrity.

162: tips and strategies for Dry Eye with Dr. Dan Friederich

Here's what we talk about today:

- What causes dry eye?

- Tips for dry eye

- Nutrition strategies for dry eye

- Lifestyle tips

and so.much.more

If you suffer from dry eye, or if you just want to keep your eyes healthy, check out this episode!

Here's more about Dr.  Friederich and his background:

Dr. Friederich practices in St. Louis, MO at Vision Care Consultants, a four-doctor private practice. Inaddition to providing primary eye care services, he focuses on ocular nutrition, dry eye, and specialty contact lens fittings. Dr. Friederich is the Founder of Eyeganics, the world's only certified organic eyedrops. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and an American Nutrition Association-Certified Personal Health Practitioner (CPNP). He and his colleagues at Vision Care Consultants are theofficial eye care providers for the St. Louis Blues professional hockey team. Dr. Friederich also served inthe US Army, receiving the National Defense Service Medal and the Army Commendation Medal foroutstanding service.

You can connect with him on Instagram, his practice, and check out Eyeganics here.

Partners:

I've been using Nutrisense on and off for a couple of years now. I love being able to see how my blood sugar responds to my diet and habits, and run experiments. You can try out Nutrisense here and use GINA50 for $50 off.

Check out Canopy! I'm obsessed with their filtered showerhead and you can use FITNESSISTA for 15% off. 

Join us for Fit Team! This is my online fitness community and you can try it free for 7 days.

I love love love the meals from Sakara LifeUse this link and the code GINAHSAKARA for 20% off their meal delivery and clean boutique items. This is something I do once a month as a lil treat to myself and the meals are always showstoppers.

If any of my fellow health professional friends are looking for another way to help their clients, I highly recommend IHP. You can also use this information to heal yourself and then go one to heal others, which I think is a beautiful mission. You can absolutely join if you don't currently work in the health or fitness industry; many IHPs don't begin on this path. They're friends who are passionate to learn more about health and wellness, and want to share this information with those they love. You can do this as a passion, or start an entirely new career.

You can use my referral link here and the code FITNESSISTA for up to $250 off the Integrative Health Practitioner program. I highly recommend it! You can check out my review IHP Level 1 here and my review of Level 2 here.

I'm still LOVING my sauna blanket. This is one of my favorite ways to relax and sweat it out. I find that it energizes me, helps with aches and pains, I sleep better on the days I use this, and it makes my skin glow. Link to check it out here. You can also use my discount FITNESSISTA15 for the PEMF Go Mat, which I use every day, and the red light face mask, which is a staple in my weekly skincare routine.

Get 20% off Organifi with the code FITNESSISTA. I drink the green juice, red juice, gold, and Harmony! (Each day I might have something different, or have two different things. Everything I've tried is amazing.) I'm currently obsessed with the shilajit gummies!

Thank you so much for listening and for all of your support with the podcast! Please be sure to subscribe, and leave a rating or review if you enjoyed this episode. If you leave a rating, head to this page and you'll get a little "thank you" gift from me to you. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to The Healthy and Real Life podcast episode number 162.

0:05.4

Welcome to the Healthy and Real Life podcast, bite-sized tips for healthy living that you can

0:10.9

implement right now. Join us weekly for interviews and real life advice for creating the

0:16.2

happiest and healthiest version of yourself. Here's your host, fitness expert, author, and mom of two, Gina Harney.

0:24.5

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.

0:26.4

This is Gina, creator of the Fitnessista blog and brand.

0:29.2

I'm so excited that you're here.

0:30.7

Thank you so much for tuning in today.

0:32.4

And I am so excited for today's episode.

0:35.3

This has been a relevant topic in my life for the past year. I know that

0:39.5

so many of you guys experienced this as well and we are chatting about dry eyes today. So I'll

0:45.4

head into the details for that. But before we get started, I wanted to tell you guys about Canopy.

0:51.0

So if you have not checked out Canopy before, I'm a huge fan. I'm obsessed with their filtered

0:57.4

shower head for so long. I've paid attention to the quality of the water that we were drinking,

1:03.2

but I wasn't filtering the water that we used to bathe. So when you take a shower, you are in

1:08.6

your shower, but you're also inhaling everything that the water has in it.

1:13.0

And I could smell the chlorine in our water.

1:15.2

It was pretty terrible.

1:16.4

And having a filtered shower head makes such a huge difference not only for your health, but also for your skin and your hair.

1:23.7

So filtered shower head, theirs is particularly amazing because it can clear away product to build up just to help your scalp.

1:31.3

It can help to encourage natural hair growth.

1:33.3

I notice a huge difference in the texture of my hair since I started using this.

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