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

Lifestyle Habits That Impact Eye Health

30 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube segment (speaker: Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCP) that identifies major lifestyle choices affecting eye health and gives brief clinical recommendations. The speaker names three primary factors: nutrition (noting sugar), prolonged near-device/near work and sedentary behavior, and insufficient outdoor time—especially among children who use devices heavily. The segment frames these as top changes the clinician suggests to patients for better eye health.

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So what are the major choices that are lifestyle based that would impact someone's eye health? The biggest one is food that we intake and nutrition. Sugar is a is a big one as well. Other things include being on your device or anything up close so near work for long or extended periods of time, that sort of sedentary lifestyle. And not being outdoors as much is a big thing as well. Most, you know, especially with the new generation and the children and our children, they're on their devices a lot in computers. They're not getting that outdoor time, which really, you know, affects the eye health. You know, there's so many other things. But I'm going to say, you know, those would be my top three lifestyle choices. That or changes that I encourage my patients to make for better eye health overall.