Show 1050: How to Protect Your Vision (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Being able to see is something most of us treasure, especially if we imagine being deprived of good vision. But do we know how to take care of our eyes to keep them healthy and working well? Our guest, Dr. Peter McDonnell, is an ophthalmologist. He describes the most common problems that can rob us […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.3	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.8	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.2	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:30.9	How good is your vision? Is there anything you can do to maintain your eyesight in good
0:36.4	condition as you grow older?
0:38.4	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:49.9	Did you know that cataract removal has become the most common surgical procedure Medicare covers?
0:56.6	As Americans age, more of us will experience chronic eye problems such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and macular degeneration.
1:05.9	There's an epidemic of near-sightedness among our youth.
1:10.3	Could staring at tiny screens be bad for their eyes?
1:13.6	Is there any way to reverse this trend? Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we talk with one of the
1:19.7	country's leading eye experts, Dr. Peter McDonnellist, Director of the Johns Hopkins Wilmer I
1:25.1	Institute. First, the news.
1:29.8	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, many people take low-dose aspirin, usually
1:36.0	81 milligrams to prevent cardiovascular complications. But is it safe to stop this medicine?
1:42.6	A large Swedish study used medical records and the National Death Registry to answer this question.
1:50.2	In Sweden, low-dose aspirin is available only by prescription,
1:53.8	so the investigators were able to determine who was taking the drug.
1:58.6	Between 2005 and 2009, more than 600,000 people over 40 did so. During
2:05.7	three years of follow-up, about 15 percent of these people stopped taking their aspirin,
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