304: Foods and Supplements to Improve Vision and Eye Health; Natural Migraine Remedies | Rudrani Banik, MD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Rudrani "Rani" Banik is a board-certified Integrative ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained neuro-ophthalmologist. She combines traditional medical approaches to eye conditions and migraines with an integrative, holistic approach based on nutrition, lifestyle modification, and other natural therapies. Her latest book, Beyond Carrots: Best Foods For Eye Health A to Z, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | What a family it's episode 304 of the Genius Life. Let's go. |
| 0:17.7 | What's going on everybody welcome back to another episode of the show. I'm your host Max |
| 0:21.8 | Lugovier, filmmaker, health and science journalist, a New York Times best-selling author. |
| 0:25.6 | I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices including what we eat and how we live. |
| 0:29.9 | Effect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, and our health span and risk for disease. |
| 0:36.0 | This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius. |
| 0:41.2 | On today's episode of the show, I'm super excited to introduce you to Rudrani Bannick. Dr. Bannick |
| 0:46.8 | is a board-certified integrative ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained neuro-ophthalmologist. |
| 0:52.8 | She combines traditional medical approaches to eye conditions and migraines but also takes an |
| 0:57.4 | integrative holistic approach based on nutrition, lifestyle modification, and other natural therapies. |
| 1:03.2 | This episode of the show is going to focus on two main areas, eye health and migraines. |
| 1:09.4 | We are going to talk all about the foods and specific nutrients and possibly even supplements |
| 1:14.8 | that can be used to directly support and enhance your eye health. |
| 1:18.8 | Among other topics, we are going to talk about macular degeneration. A 2022 study found that in 2019, |
| 1:25.0 | an estimated 20 million Americans were living with some form of age-related macular degeneration. |
| 1:31.1 | This represents an increase of almost three times previous estimates. Dr. Bannick is going to share |
| 1:36.5 | the specific foods that can be used to help reduce your risk. We're also going to talk about migraines |
| 1:42.2 | and the specific nutrients that might help to prevent migraines, as well as a unique trick that Dr. |
| 1:48.0 | Bannick shows me on the spot that can be used to instantly abort an episode of migraine. |
| 1:53.5 | As I newly diagnosed migraine suffer myself, this was a super informative episode to tape, |
| 1:58.7 | and a highly actionable one at that. If you have any concern whatsoever about your eye health, |
| 2:04.7 | about your brain health, suffer from headaches or migraines, this is an episode that you |
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