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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1KHO 684: Everything You Need to Know About the Blink Crisis and Dry Eye Disease, Dr. Pam Theriot

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Get your free 2026 tracker sheet⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get our free Top Ten 1000 Hours Outside Podcast Books from 2025⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get our top ranked mobile app for iOS or Android. Subscribe to our Substack here Screens don’t just steal attention, they quietly change how your eyes work. In this episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Ginny Yurich sits down with optometrist and dry-eye specialist Dr. Pam Theriot to explain what’s really happening when we stare close-up for hours: we blink less, the oil layer of our tears can thicken and clog, and over time that can snowball into dry eye disease, even in younger adults. Dr. Pam shares a simple at-home “how long can you go without blinking” self-check, practical prevention habits, and easy tweaks for kids, readers, gamers, and anyone glued to a computer all day. It’s one of those conversations that makes you want to walk away, look at the horizon, and start taking eye care as seriously as brushing your teeth. Check out Dr. Pam's TEDx talk here Learn more about Dr. Pam and all she has to offer here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:20.2

Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.

0:22.7

My name is Jenny Erich and the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.

0:25.6

And today's episode is incredibly important

0:28.9

and really goes right along with what we're doing,

0:31.0

getting kids outside.

0:32.2

It is incredibly beneficial for their eyesight.

0:34.7

And we've got this overload of screen time and screens that are really close.

0:39.7

And so optometrist, Dr. Pam Terrio, is here. TEDx speaker. That's right. Yes. Yes. And you have so

0:46.8

many things that you offer online courses, consultations, different guides. We're going to be diving

0:51.6

into kids and adults and our eyesight. Pam, thank you for being

0:55.3

here. Thanks so much for having me. What is your background? And I love that you are really

1:01.9

working with, you know, people go to the eye doctor, you know, for their own appointments,

1:07.1

but you are actually going further than that and putting information out into the world

1:10.6

about dry eye and about, I mean, I tried some of the tests where you like close your eyes and

1:15.0

open and see how long before you blink and you're putting out all this really extra information.

1:19.8

You have a blog with over 240 posts for people.

1:22.6

Is it just because screens have become so present that people just need more?

1:30.9

Well, I believe that our eyesight is our most precious gift. And if we knew better, we would do better. So most people, another podcast host told me

1:38.0

she was an eye neglecter. And I was like, yes, people just neglect their eyes. Right we we brush our teeth twice a day

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