Your vision makes a huge difference in your quality of life, particularly as you get older. Macular degeneration and glaucoma in particular can negatively impact your health and independence as it increases the likelihood of falling injuries and can even worsen your mental health.
But our eye health is something we have control over! In this episode, we’ll go over how the foods we eat, medication we take, and vitamins that we do or don’t access in our diets all affect our eyes, and how by adjusting our behaviors in these categories, we can improve our eye health and slow age-related eye issues.
What’s in this episode:
- Why vascular health also affects your eye health
- Which foods have a negative impact on your eye health
- The vitamins that can affect eye health and the best ways to get those nutrients to support your eye health
- How to avoid blue and artificial light and how that can improve your vision
- The medications that can affect your eye health
