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information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone,

today I spoke with Dr. Nadat Joya and we discussed the topic of eye health. Now, Nadda is a

optometrist. She graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in biology and

psychology, followed by a doctorate of optometry at SUNY College. And she also is trained and

certified in functional medicine and has performed a fellowship in ocular wellness and nutrition, as well as being a

certified nutritional specialist with a degree from Western states.

And today, as you can probably expect, we cover this balanced perspective between kind of

conventional optometry and functional medicine.

And the one thing amongst all of her other good points that I think she makes is that

we should be looking at eye health as a facet of neurological health and potentially at eye

health as a window into neurological health and neurodegenerate diseases.

So we outlined and covered a few very interesting topics, near-sighted versus far-sighted

and the merit that exercises to correct near-sighted or far-sightedness hold.

Also the screen pandemic that has been paralleling the COVID pandemic as

everyone has shifted from whatever they were doing before to a very kind of screen-based,

Zoom-based office and work model. And we talked about this visual hygiene practice called 2020, which I definitely hope you will

take a moment to start practicing. And also the merits of flicker reduction software,

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