462: How vision can help anxiety, motion sickness & more | Optometrist Bryce Appelbaum, O.D., FCOVD

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Bryce Appelbaum, O.D., FCOVD: “Vision problems are brain problems.” Bryce, a board-certified optometrist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to actually strengthen and protect your vision (way beyond blue light blockers), plus: - Bryce’s background in vision therapy (~00:28) - How vision impacts physical performance (~04:54) - The difference between vision & eyesight (~07:06) - The link between vision health & ADHD diagnoses (~11:28) - Why you should engage in vision breaks (~17:22) - How to protect your vision during the workday (~20:59) - How to use lighting & posture to enhance your vision (~25:09) - How to implement the 20-20-20 rule into your every day (~29:13) - Sneaky signs you may have an eyesight issue (~35:44) - Why some people aren’t the best at eye contact (~40:58) - Vision exercises for reducing anxiety (~45:08) - How often you should perform vision exercises (~51:22) - The relationship between fitness, nutrition & vision health (~55:10) - How to activate your vestibular system & overcome motion sickness (~01:00:29) - How much natural light you need for optimal vision health (~01:03:41) - The role of vision therapy in concussion recovery (~01:06:53) - One thing you should do every day for better vision (~01:09:38) Referenced in the episode: - Check out Bryce's website. - Follow Bryce on Instagram. - A study on screen usage & reduced blink rate. - Check out Bryce's vision training program. - Check out Bryce's Concussion Clear program. - Visit VisionHelp, an advocacy group to raise awareness about treatable vision problems. - Shop mbg's eye health+. - Sign up for The Long Game. Take 20% off our holiday collection with code HOLIDAY20. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:07.0	What happens now?
0:08.3	What happens now?
0:09.9	How will I cope? How will I cope?
0:13.1	Sometimes you don't want to talk about cancer to people you know.
0:17.2	You just want to talk to someone who knows how you feel.
0:22.0	That's why I joined the McMillan Online Community.
0:25.6	We know what it's like because we're living with cancer too.
0:30.0	And whatever's on your mind, we're here to help.
0:33.7	To join us, search McMillan Online Community.
0:38.4	Bryce, welcome.
0:39.5	Thank you so much for having me.
0:41.1	It's so great to have you, our mutual friend JJ Virgin, speak so highly of you.
0:47.2	And you are the winner of her Mindshare Future of Health Awards.
0:50.5	So congratulations and it's great to have you because if JJ says someone is a star,
0:55.1	then they are a star. So welcome.
0:56.8	I appreciate that and clearly she's incredibly bright if she's saying that I'm a star.
1:01.5	She knows her stuff so.
1:03.6	So let's talk a bit about your background and your area of specialization.
1:09.5	So let's start there.
1:11.2	So I think it's probably helpful for me to start just with my story in terms of how I got into this
1:16.4	the space and then we can talk all about vision therapy and what's involved there.
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