How Screens Damage Brain and Eyesight @drbryceappelbaum

How do screens ruin brains and eyeballs? Screen time is the new pandemic. It's ruining so many aspects for kids. Cognitive development, emotional development, social development, but now visual development, and then for adults as well. So screens present a different amount of visual stress from our environment. That includes different eye movements required to engage with screens. Brightness, contrast, glare that we all have to absorb and process. There's 2D versus 3D. There's blue light. There's just these sporadic signals that our brains were not meant to be able to filter and process. So that's what's causing these challenges. And then from a functional standpoint, the coordination of the inside and outside muscle systems. So to really simplify this, the inside muscles in the eyes, that's our focusing system, our combative system that allows us to make something clear and keep it clear. That lets us know what something is. It's a circular sphincter muscle, meaning when we're looking at a screen, it's locked in. So if everybody listening were to squeeze their fists as hard as they can, after a few seconds, your hands start to hurt. But if you're a squeeze and let go, and squeeze and let go and have flexibility, you can maintain tension for a longer period of time. When we're on screens, our focusing muscles are locked in, and that tension over time, unless you're trying to get buff and lift weights, that's not a good thing. So that's really what's causing so many of the symptoms that are associated with screen time challenges.