#61 Eating for your Eyes with Dr Rudrani Banik

The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast

Dr Rupy Aujla

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🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Dr Rudrani Banik MD, an award-winning Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine who also serves as principal investigator for 5 multi-centered clinical trials in neuro-ophthalmology. Dr. Banik is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Exam Development Committee and helps to set the standards for board certification in her field. She is sought out as an expert in the media and has been featured in The New York Times, Good Morning America, CBS Evening.

She applies principles of complementary and alternative medicine in conjunction with traditional medical approaches to treat chronic diseases affecting the visual system. She offers a unique approach to managing conditions such as dry eye, macular degeneration, blepharitis, migraine, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, thyroid eye disease, uveitis, and other autoimmune conditions. She is also the founder of Envision Health NYC, a private practice based in New York City.

On today’s podcast we talk about:

How does nutrition affect health?
What are the best foods for eye health and how do they impact the visual system
What foods can help protect against cataracts/macular degeneration/glaucoma?
Beyond food, what supplements/herbs should you take for your vision?
Prevention and slowing of the commonest causes of blindness
So how do we reduce symptoms of digital eye strain?
Is there a connection between nutrition and dry eyes?
What can you do to protect children's vision?
Actionable tips to protect our eyes with food and lifestyle

Bio links:

Relevant Links: https://rudranibanikmd.com/

https://www.instagram.com/dr.ranibanik/

https://twitter.com/RudraniBanikMD

https://www.facebook.com/NYCNeuroOphthalmology/

Further links:

http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/2/e00198-16.full - contact lens wearing

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045141/ - microbiome and ophthalmic disease

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1542012416300386

https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39945/title/Visualizing-the-Ocular-Microbiome/

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0:00.0	I call myself an integrative ophthalmologist, so yes, I have the traditional ophthalmology
0:10.7	background, I've been trained, I do surgeries, but on top of that I've also trained in integrative
0:17.5	and functional medicine.
0:19.2	And that allows me to really dive deeper into some of these, you know, these counseling
0:24.1	strategies that I think are really for the long term, what people need to hear.
0:29.8	Welcome to the Doxxas Kitchen podcast, the show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today.
0:38.9	My name is Dr. Rupi, I'm a medical doctor, I also study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine.
0:49.0	Join me on this podcast where we explore multiple determinants of what allows you to live your best life.
0:56.8	And remember, you can sign up to thedoxxaskitchen.com for the newsletter where we give weekly recipes plus tips and hacks on how to improve your lifestyle today.
1:08.2	And my guest is the incredible Dr. Rodrani Bannock.
1:11.9	She is an award-winning associate professor of ophthalmology that's eye surgery at Mount Sinai, Ican School of Medicine.
1:20.1	She also serves as principal investigator for five multi-centred clinical trials in neuro ophthalmology as well.
1:27.5	She is a member of the American Academy of Optomologies, Exam Development Committee and helps set the standards for board certification in her field.
1:35.5	She's also sought out as an expert in the media and has been featured in every publication you can imagine.
1:41.2	The New York Times, Good Morning America, CBS Evening on TV.
1:45.4	She applies the complementary and alternative medicine principles in conjunction with a conventional medical approach to treat chronic diseases affecting the visual system.
1:55.8	And this unique approach to managing conditions such as dry eye, macular degeneration, blepharitis, even things like multiple sclerosis and mycena gravis that can affect the eye.
2:07.9	And UVitis and other autoimmune conditions is a really groundbreaking and we have a fantastic conversation about the different nutritional principles as well as lifestyle principles that can affect a multitude of different conditions that affect the eye.
2:23.2	In today's episode we talk about how nutrition affects overall health, but particularly visual health as well.
2:30.0	What steps people can take to optimize their eye health and as a byproduct of that you're looking over your overall health which is why I wrote an entire chapter on this on my last book Eat to Be Illness.
2:42.0	What foods can help protect against things like cataracts, macular degeneration and glaucoma as well as the conventional treatment options that are there and available for us.
2:51.0	And we're so lucky to have that particularly in the UK and the US because a lot of countries have cataracts as the number one cause of blindness,
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