Interview with Marsha McCulloch

Here's a great episode I wanted to share with you all again. In this episode, Dr. Sam is interviewed by Marsha McCulloch, a blogger who writes for Vitacost. He talks about the effects computer use is having on our eyes, vision, and wellness. He offers many tips on how to take better care of your vision while being on screen time. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, people, exercises, screen, blue, lens, eyedrops, breathing, omega, glutathione, based, called, stress, exhale, important, create, reduce, technique, blog, light Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Hey folks, it's Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. We have a very interesting show today I was interviewed for an upcoming blog by Marsha McCulloch. And she is very interested in how screen time is affecting our eyes. And so she's going to be asking me a lot of questions about what can you do to protect your eyes from all the screen time, so everybody enjoy the show. 00:43 And a class which, if you're not familiar, is a large online retailer of natural products owned by Kroger corporation. So they put out blogs regularly several, several times a week. And so really, in this article, I want to focus on how people can protect their eyes against all the digital eyestrain especially since with people using screens even more with COVID. I think this is especially relevant right now. So I want to talk with you just about what people can do to protect their eyes and how these screens are affecting their eyes and so forth. So, questions, I'll just dive right into the questions that I have you. 01:31 Yeah, please do. Yeah, please. Please just fire away and I'll do my best to to answer. 01:39 Okay, so how, what would you tell consumers as far as how continuous screen use affects our eye, or just all of our digital devices, staring at them so much? 01:54 Well, it's certainly, you know, since the COVID pandemic, I think that I'm seeing more and more people with complaints. I mean, a variety of complaints, blurred vision, double vision, dry eye, redness, neck and shoulder pain. And the severity depends on course, how long you're on your digital device. You know, I just saw a teacher that came to see me and she has been teaching online eight hours a day. And, you know, she's just having this accumulated ice stress, and her prescription is getting worse. She's very worried about it. And the syndrome is actually called the computer vision syndrome. And this was coined by the American Optometric Association. And so it's, you know, it's a growing problem of fatigue, people are not getting outside as much. So there's the EMF pollution, there's the blue, blue blue light issue we can get into. So it's definitely taking a toll on our eyes. And I've laid out a lot of things that people can do to take better care of themselves. We can get into that. But, you know, you've you've identified a, a really important trend that I don't think is going to change anytime soon. 03:28 Right. I agree.