Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

Five Tips to Improve Your Vision

2 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube dialogue (by Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCP) listing five practical tips to improve vision. The speakers enumerate: (1) use the 20-20-20 rule for screen breaks, (2) blink more frequently, (3) address systemic health via functional medicine / reduce systemic inflammation, (4) eat for eye health (leafy greens with lutein and zeaxanthin; vitamins A, C, E; colorful fruits/vegetables), and (5) perform practices to reconnect vision (described as "climbing out of the area of disconnect"). The tone is conversational and advice-focused.

Okay, now let's go to the five things, five tips. All right, so.
We got the 20, 20, 20 rule.
That was the first tip.
Second tip is blink.
More, as crazy.
As this sounds.
Third tip.
Find an.
Amazing functional medicine practitioner like.
Ed and Wendy. But seriously, addressing systemic health.
And systemic inflammation will.
Take a good chunk of the vision problems.
Off the table. But lifestyle.
Nutrition, supplementation.
And the inner.
Shifts that you guys guide your patients.
Through, though.
That can can drastically improve quality of life in so many areas.
Number four, start.
Eating with your eyes in mind and.
With intention. So we.
Talked about some of the supplements that are great for brain health, but for eye health, in terms of.
Foods, green.
Leafy vegetables are fantastic. They've got lutein and zeaxanthin, which are really important for the sweet spot of our eyes, our macula.
Eating colorful fruits.
And vegetables, getting a lot of vitamins, AC and E antioxidants. I think that alone can significantly improve a lot of what we're doing.
And then.
Number five.
Start climbing out.
Of the area of disconnect that you're.
In with vision.
Training exercises.