278: Why we need to talk about eye health | Rudrani Banik, M.D.

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Rudrani Banik, M.D.: "Our vision is so precious. We have two eyes, but they are very delicate organs. We need to protect them for our lifetimes.” Banik, a board-certified ophthalmologist, fellowship-trained neuro-ophthalmologist, and functional medicine expert, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss why you need to prioritize eye health (even if you have 20/20 vision) plus: *The best and worst foods for eye health* *How to tell if your blue light-blocking glasses are actually working* *Why you should never sleep in your contacts* *How to tell if your dry eyes are something more serious* *How to reverse digital eyestrain as you work from home* Enjoy this episode sponsored by Nature's Truth! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Referenced in the episode: -Jason Karp's rare autoimmune disease was a degenerative eye disease, called Keratoconus. -Banik's recommendations for blue light glasses and blue light-filtering apps. -mbg Podcast episode #125, with Karp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:47.0	Dr. Ronnie Bannick is a board certified
0:51.0	ophthalmologist, fellowship trained neurooptimologist,
0:54.1	and a functional medicine expert.
0:55.8	And today we're going to talk all things eye health.
1:01.2	Ronnie, welcome. Thank you so much.
1:04.0	Thanks for having me, Jason.
1:05.0	So it's so great to have you here.
1:07.0	Eye health is something we don't talk enough about.
1:10.0	We all have eyes.
1:12.0	My grandmother suffered
1:13.0	from a macular degeneration and toward the end of her life
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