Screen Time and Your Eye Health

Digital time is inevitable in life, but today I am sharing some tips on how to use your digital devices while staying healthy. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS magnification, eyes, lens, vision, glasses, distance, called, screen, corrected, computer, reading, cervical spine, muscles, doctor, blue, light, lenses, drugstore, headache, inches 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]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So, in optics, there is a trend in the eye care field, which I've seen for many, many years, which is as follows. What the eye care field likes to do is like they like to give split lenses, maybe in what they call bifocals, or, in your case, it's an invisible bifocal. So there's a gradient. And I'm going to do a drawing here. And I'll show it to you. And basically, the, the only part of the lens that's usable This is, we call this like a progressive lens or a invisible bifocal, all of this is scratched out on the sides, you can't use that lens, the only part of the lens that's usable is this tiny sliver down the middle, now the top part is going to be distance, the middle part is going to be computer, and the bottom part is going to be reading. And as you go down the lens, there's more magnification that they put into the lens, it is probably the single most detrimental optical system that you could look through, like if you wanted to say, how do I make my eyes worse, in an accelerated way, then where are those because whenever you split the vision into these different gradient parts, now your brain has to direct your eyes through that segment of the lens. So you've got to do that. And then on top of that you're focusing say on the screen, or let's say you're driving even though none of us have for driving or not. But what it's eliminating is the most important part in your vision, which is your peripheral vision. So when you put those progressive lenses on, you are actually going into a straitjacket with your eyes, there's there's just a real limitation and how much vision you can access. You basically have to tunnel your your eyes. So when you tunnel on a nervous system level, what you're doing is your creating a an increase in your stress, both eyes stress and body stress to try to aim your eyes through these different compartments. And it is the most deteriorating aspect of why people's vision goes downhill. It's it's a really, it's a really accelerated way to lose your ability to see. 02:58 So in that case, you will just get two glasses, one for reading and one. 03:01 Well let's go a little deeper here. Yeah, so you're in a situation where you're farsighted. So let's let's talk about that from a more holistic perspective. So in farsightedness most people that are farsighted, there are a couple of different definitions. One aspect of the farsightedness is those are people that see well in the distance, and they're kind of visionary, they see the big picture. And when they start losing their muscular focus flexibility in the lenses of the eye, these are the tiny, they're called ciliary muscles. That usually means that they're losing their near vision so they reach for a magnification lens. Now when you reach for a magnification lens, what's happening to the muscles is they're losing their responsiveness. Because things are bigger things are, you know,