In this episode 16 protocols
▶ 9:42 Morning and Daytime Sunlight Exposure Behaviors “It means see, get that light in your eyes early in the day and anytime you want to be awake. So try and get as much sunlight in your eyes during the day as you safely can.” ▷ 10:26 Outdoor Time Without Sunglasses Behaviors “Getting two hours a day of outdoor time without sunglasses has a significant effect on reducing the probability that you will get myopia.” ▷ 13:42 Visual Breaks During Focused Work Behaviors “So what's the protocol? You might be surprised, but for every 30 minutes of focused work, you probably want to look up every once in a while.” ▷ 14:18 Upward Gaze for Alertness Behaviors “You don't want your chin all the way back, but to look up and to raise your eyes toward the ceiling and to look up and try and hold that for 10 to 15 seconds. It actually triggers some of the areas of the brain that are involved in wakefulness.” ▷ 14:47 Distance Viewing Behaviors “One way is to make sure that you spend at least 10 minutes a day total, at least, viewing things off in the distance. So that would be well over half a mile or more.” ▷ 16:37 Smooth Pursuit Training Behaviors “So what does this mean? The tool is spend two to three minutes doing smooth pursuit. There's some programs on YouTube.” ▷ 16:48 Accommodation and Vergence Training Behaviors “Practice accommodation for a few minutes, maybe every other day, just bringing something in close. You'll feel the strain of your eyes doing that. Move it out.” ▷ 18:43 Balanced Binocular Vision Practice in Youth Behaviors “If you're a young person, do your best to get really good binocular vision, not just at level of your phone or your tablet, but also at distance.” ▷ 19:01 Address Eye Imbalances Early Behaviors “What's needed is to cover up the other eye, to create an imbalance so that the weak eye, the so-called lazy eye, this is sometimes referred to as amblyopia, that eye has to work harder.” ▷ 21:37 Snellen Chart Tools “One of the things that you can do to improve your vision, and it's also kind of fun, is to put a Snellen chart in your home.” ▷ 22:24 Professional Vision Testing Behaviors “If you're thinking about any of that, to really get it measured by a professional, get your vision tested by somebody who really understands vision, like an ophthalmologist or a really good optometrist.” ▷ 24:24 Vitamin A-Rich Foods Diet “First of all, it is true that eating vitamins, vegetables, the dark leafy vegetables, and things like carrots that have vitamin A in abundance and eating them in close to their raw form... can help support vision.” ▷ 25:42 Lutein Supplements “There is some evidence through quality peer-reviewed studies that supplementing with lutein can help offset some of the detrimental effects of age-related macular degeneration. But I want to emphasize... only for individuals with moderate to severe macular degeneration.” ▷ 26:19 Astaxanthin Supplements “The other one is A-S-T-A-X-A-N-T-H-I-N... it does seem to increase the amount of ocular blood flow. So the blood supply to the eyes. So that makes it an interesting compound.” ▷ 28:36 Strength Training Behaviors “Having a healthy cardiovascular system, right? Doing endurance work, doing strength training work regularly is going to support your eyes and your brain and your vision.” ▷ 28:36 Endurance Training Behaviors “Having a healthy cardiovascular system, right? Doing endurance work, doing strength training work regularly is going to support your eyes and your brain and your vision.”