The Eye Doctor Prescribed Kale

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of nutrition, particularly a plant-based diet, in maintaining eye health and preventing vision loss.

Losing your vision is a quiet fear a lot of people carry, because it threatens the things that make life feel like yours: reading a book, driving safely, recognizing a loved one’s face, staying independent. We start with a real moment from clinic life that stopped me in my tracks: an ophthalmologist’s report that didn’t just list diagnoses like early diabetic retinopathy, signs of age-related macular degeneration, and possible glaucoma. It also recommended a Mediterranean-style, plant-forward...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Jules Cormier

Topics covered

• vision health
• nutrition
• plant-based diet
• eye care
• diabetic retinopathy
• macular degeneration

Keywords

• vision
• kale
• nutrition
• eye doctor
• plant-based
• health
• diabetes
• macular degeneration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ophthalmologist, Mediterranean, plant-forward

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