Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a podcast all about your eyes. Today I want to give you top tips for tired eyes. Going into the fall season, it's drier, and your eyes might look tired from summer sun, squinting all that bright light the ultraviolet is actually

pretty damaging to our corneas our lenses of the eye and causes us those crow's feet crinkles

and sun damage the thin skin of the eyes is so ultra paper ranges of tiredness and certainly gets wrinkles. You might even notice

in your 30s that you're having upper eyelid heaviness. That's quite common as your temporal fat

starts to atrophy. And you might notice in your 3540s that you're developing hollows under the

eyes. Some people even as early as 20 get these under eye hollows.

Certainly by the time we're 50, we have lost some of the normal periorbital fat and the eye

starts to sink into the orbit a little bit. So you get a little more sunken, deep set eye.

You also have loss of some of the actual water content of the eye so everything starts to get smaller

less hydrated a little more creepy a little more sunken that's it we're all becoming old what can we do

well there's lots you can do and since we're all staring at screens all day long i think it's time

that we start doing some of these things.

So number one on my list of tips for tired eyes is take a screen break. Every 20 minutes, we need

to be looking away from our desktop, our laptop, or our screen, ideally for 20 seconds, and

ideally at least 20 feet away. Did you know that rule?

2020 2020? If you want to have 20-20 vision and you don't want to have chronic nearsightedness,

take a break from your screen and look at least 20 feet away, out the window, away from your desktop,

let the eye unfocused because that chronic hyperfocus tension on the lens can lead to early

near-sightedness and tears in the retina. Number two, get more sleep. This might be the hardest

thing to try, especially if you're working from home, if you're addicted to Netflix or you

have little kids running around you. Getting more sleep is critical. This is the time when your eye gets to really lubricate the tears,

get to re-hydrate the cornea,

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