dilation of blood vessels anywhere in the body is an indication of general health so it just

happens to be around the eyelid you can actually see the blood vessels and actually also inside

your eye you can see all the vessels when you look at the back so that's why the eyes are quite

a useful tool and to predict your general health.

That's the voice of Dr Elizabeth Hawkes, a leading ocular plastic and ophthalmic surgeon.

I'm Lizelle and this is the Lizelle well-being show. The podcast helping us all have a better

second half of life and my mission is to find ways for all of us to thrive in later life by

investing in our health and our well-being today and of course eyes and eyesight is absolutely

a fundamental part of that and I don't know about you but I spend a large amount of time and money

on eye treatments you know eye care, eye masks, eye creams, eye exercises all of those things so

I'm really looking forward to having this conversation about what works sort of on a cosmetic

and beauty level but also diving in to some of the really common issues that we all have

particularly as we age around our eyes. Well to give you a bit of background Dr Elizabeth Hawkes

works at the caduggan clinic and she is a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists so she

is absolutely the person that we want to be talking to here about why the eye area ages.

Questions like why wearing sunglasses is so vital but perhaps not all the time and maybe

why we should be paying particular attention to the makeup that we wear around our eyes.

So Elizabeth a very warm welcome I'm so looking forward to this chat because there's just so much

to say about the eyes and you know I was really impressed by your breadth of knowledge because

you look sort of at the eyes within and without if you like because we're looking at the skin

around the eyes as well as the eyes themselves. Yeah that's correct so I've specialised as

well my training was actually as an eye surgeon and the joke goes that an eyeball is 25

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