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

Why You Should Put Your Vision First

30 May 2025 · 0 min

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Wendie Trubow explains why vision deserves more attention in your health. She distinguishes eyesight, like 20/20 acuity, from functional vision: how your brain actually uses what you see. Many symptoms improve when you address vision as part of overall wellness, not just at the eye doctor.

Pick one thing that you would say. Okay, what's the one piece of advice you want people to know about their eyes with almost any symptom? My one tip is you need to consider that vision could be a part of the problem. And that's why I advocate putting your vision first. And that goes way beyond going to your eye doctor and seeing if you need glasses. So when you're at the eye doctor and they're telling you you're 20, whatever, say, great, thanks for telling me about my eyesight. What about my vision? What about how my brain uses this information?