About this episode
In this episode, Artis L Beatty discusses the broader implications of vision beyond prescriptions and lenses, emphasizing its impact on autonomy and health.
Send us Fan Mail I have intentionally avoided talking about eyes on this show — even though I am an optometrist — because I never wanted the conversation to narrow into prescriptions and lenses. But vision is larger than refractive error. Vision determines autonomy. It affects how safely you drive, how steadily you move, and how independently you age. It also provides one of the only direct windows into living neural tissue and blood vessels anywhere in the body. In this episode, I explain wh...
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Host: Artis L Beatty
Topics covered
- vision
- autonomy
- health
- optometry
- aging
- neural tissue
Keywords
- vision
- optometrist
- health
- autonomy
- aging
- neural tissue
- blood vessels
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