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

What Are The Symptoms Associated with Screen Time

9 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk (by Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCP) describing common symptoms tied to prolonged screen time. The speaker lists headaches, eye strain, blurred vision, fatigue, dry eye, light sensitivity, disrupted sleep, and decreased daytime productivity as common and normalized post-pandemic; she highlights a marked increase in nearsightedness/myopia that she links to screen time.

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What are the subjects Associated headaches, eye strain, blurred vision, fatigue, dry eye light sensitivity disrupted sleep technic decreased productivity throughout the day. I mean, I could rattle these off. It's crazy the amount of symptoms and just kind of status quo that we all accept as normal, even though people don't even stop and think about like, oh wow, I have so much more energy on the weekends than I do on weekdays, and I schedule my important zooms in the morning versus in the evening. Or, you know, all the little things that just have evolved over time, especially post pandemic, that now are our new normal. And the biggest one is, is nearsightedness and myopia. I mean, that is increasing at an alarming rate because of screen time.