Can Exercise Fix Aging Eyes?
Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman
Nutritious Movement
4.8 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025
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In this episode, Katy Bowman and Jeannette Loram have a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with neuro-optometrist Dr. Bryce Appelbaum.
Dr. Appelbaum breaks down the crucial difference between eyesight—what you can see—and vision—how your brain interprets what you see and turns it into action. Together, they explore the striking parallels between physical and visual health, highlighting how prolonged screen time and visual inactivity can stiffen our eye muscles just like sedentary habits stiffen our joints. Focusing on screens all day is like clenching your fist nonstop—leading to eye strain, headaches, and long-term issues like poor eye coordination, which can affect depth perception, balance, and even increase the risk of falls.
The conversation covers everything from visual tics and dry eyes to how vision is connected to musculoskeletal alignment and behavior—and even offers a glimpse into the future of eye health in our tech-heavy world. Dr. Appelbaum also shares how anyone can improve visual stamina and flexibility, and Katy and Jeannette reflect on their personal experience with his online program ScreenFit—a movement program for your eyes!
Dr Appelbaum is offering our listeners $200 off ScreenFit using code MOVEYOURDNA: https://bit.ly/moveyourdnaSF
CHAPTERS
00:03:10 - Introducing Dr. AppelbaumÂ
00:09:30 - Impacts of Screens on Vision Â
00:25:30 -Â Unlocking Vision Potential Through Exercise - ScreenFitÂ
00:41:00 - Listener Question on Dry Eyes brought to you by Earth Runners Â
00:50:40 - The Future of the Screen Time/Vision Connection
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, podcast listeners, this is a live event announcement. I am headed to North Carolina this |
| 0:06.9 | October to lead a three-day dynamic aging retreat of the serene Art of Living Center in the Appalachian |
| 0:13.5 | Mountains. Aging is for every body. While we can't stop the sands of time, there is a difference between the effects of age and the effects of years, accumulating sedentary habits. |
| 0:26.4 | This is my third time offering this event, the first time at the Art of Living Center. |
| 0:31.5 | You'll learn to nourish all your parts with movement, feet, ankles, knees, hips, back, shoulders, pelvic floor, and all the |
| 0:38.1 | bits in between, and restore loss function due to inactivity. In addition to gentle, |
| 0:44.7 | head-to-to-co, corrective movements will also be working on practical movement skills like balance, |
| 0:51.2 | fall-proof gait patterns, boosting the amount of play in your life, and how to make |
| 0:56.4 | the movements you need fit easily into the activities of daily living. I could go on and on about |
| 1:01.9 | the benefits of the content that we'll cover, but I know you want to get to this podcast episode, |
| 1:06.2 | so if you're keen to know more, go to nutritiousmovement.com and click on events. There you will find more |
| 1:12.9 | information. Retreats are different from vacations where you're looking to just get away. They are |
| 1:18.5 | time set aside from the regular grind and dedicated to practicing something that you don't |
| 1:23.3 | often have time to focus on in daily life. Movement retreats let you focus on building a toolkit |
| 1:29.0 | that will serve you again and again long after you've left the event. I hope you can join me. |
| 1:35.0 | We're going to have a blast. This is the Move Your DNA podcast, a show where movement science meets |
| 1:43.8 | your everyday life. I'm Katie |
| 1:46.2 | Bowman, biomechanist, author, and I am near-sighted. Like, I am super duper near-sighted. |
| 1:53.9 | And I am Jeanette Lorham, biologist, movement teacher. And I'm starting to struggle with the small |
| 2:00.3 | print. |
| 2:03.7 | Everybody is welcome here. |
| 2:05.1 | Let's get started. |
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