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HW 2026-08-27 The Eyes Have It - Todd Lang · Heartwise

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Speaker 1: you'll learn simple, Bible based principles for building and maintaining
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Speaker 1: optimum mental and physical health, all while deepening your relationship
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Speaker 1: with your creator. Here's your Heartwise host, doctor James markham Well.
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Speaker 2: I want to thank everyone for joining us today on Heartwise.
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Speaker 2: And I was in a board meeting recently and they
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Speaker 2: had a vote, and at the end of the vote,
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Speaker 2: everyone said, the eyes have it. And I didn't think
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Speaker 2: of the word of eyes as yes. I thought of
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Speaker 2: the eyes that we have in our brain, in our heads,
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Speaker 2: and I thought that, you know, that's very important that
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Speaker 2: we talk about our eyes and our vision, because what
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Speaker 2: a valuable component of health. Not only do our i
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Speaker 2: see and move us around, but our eyes help us
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Speaker 2: to read and understand things and see the beauty of
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Speaker 2: the earth. Our eyes and our vision have a lot
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Speaker 2: to do with our health. So I was happening to
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Speaker 2: be doing a conference not too long ago, and I
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Speaker 2: ran into a sort of a previous acquaintance, doctor Todd Lang,
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Speaker 2: who's a noted eye doctor that is in the West
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Speaker 2: Coast of Florida, And I said, doctor Lang, would you
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Speaker 2: be willing to come on Heartwise and answer a few
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Speaker 2: questions that come in to our radio program from our
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Speaker 2: website that's Heartwismanistries dot org or our Facebook page. And
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Speaker 2: doctor Lang agreed to do that. So Todd, we want
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Speaker 2: to thank you for joining us today on Heartwise.
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Speaker 3: Hey, it's a privilege to be a part of your program.
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Speaker 2: And you actually we're seeing patients this morning, right, absolutely,
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Speaker 2: And I bet you saw a lot of people with
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Speaker 2: all sorts of eye problems every day. And doctor Lang,
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Speaker 2: how long have you been practicing optometry and dealing with
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Speaker 2: people's eyes.
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Speaker 3: It's been twenty five years.
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Speaker 2: And you do have to go to school for this,
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Speaker 2: right Oh yeah? Okay, but but if you're like me,
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Speaker 2: I found out I learned more after I got out
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Speaker 2: of school than I did in school. Is that the
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Speaker 2: same for you?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely? Absolutely, And it's a fascinating profession to be in
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Speaker 3: and every day is fun.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, we're going to jump into these questions that
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Speaker 2: have come into our website because if one person has
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Speaker 2: a question, probably five people have a question. And the
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Speaker 2: first question says, unfortunately, I've never had my eyes evaluated
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Speaker 2: I live far far away from a city. I think
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Speaker 2: I see well, and this person wants to know it.
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Speaker 2: What age would you recommend an eye exam So let's
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Speaker 2: talk about that, doctor Lang.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, the reality is we should have our
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Speaker 3: eyes examined for the first time by an eye doctor
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Speaker 3: by one year of age.
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Speaker 2: One year of age, okay.
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Speaker 3: And the reason for that is because just because someone
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Speaker 3: has good vision at one year old, we often don't
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Speaker 3: know exactly what level of vision our child has. And
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Speaker 3: in fact, when we're first born, our natural focus is
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Speaker 3: about nine or ten inches because that's our world, okay,
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Speaker 3: But that gradually develops over time. And you know what's interesting,
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Speaker 3: As children, they don't really know what normal is or
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Speaker 3: what it should be. And it's it's pretty amazing how
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Speaker 3: often I have parents bring their child, finally bring their
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Speaker 3: child in at seven or eight years of age, and
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Speaker 3: it turns out that their vision is twenty two hundred.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: What that means is a normal person who has perfect
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Speaker 3: vision might see an eight point seven to three millimeter
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Speaker 3: letter from twenty feet. Well, someone who has to have
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Speaker 3: happens to have twenty two hundred vision, that letter has
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Speaker 3: to be ten times the size In order for them
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Speaker 3: to see it.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: And so you know, the the long and the short
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Speaker 3: of it is you can have disease and not know it,
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Speaker 3: and and what might be normal for you, or what
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Speaker 3: you think is normal, is not necessarily normal for everyone else.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Now, let's say, how would you test someone you know?
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Speaker 2: Usually you go and you have to look at letters
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Speaker 2: and things, and a one year old can't even talk.
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Speaker 2: How would you how would you tell it they're seeing?
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Speaker 3: Well, well, you know, we have particular instruments that can
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Speaker 3: create movement of the eyes that they that they will
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Speaker 3: look at. Okay. Secondly, we can do objective testing where
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Speaker 3: we can evaluate what their prescription is without them having
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Speaker 3: to tell us anything. And knowing what that prescription is
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Speaker 3: will tell us okay, we've got a problem.
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Speaker 1: We need to do with it.
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Speaker 3: Now or not. And and so that is that's what
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Speaker 3: needs to be done. You know. The sad part is
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Speaker 3: that you know, many people say, well, you know, my
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Speaker 3: pediatrician screens you know my child, and and the fact
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Speaker 3: is that unfortunately, there are serious functional problems that the
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Speaker 3: that they mess children end up with permanent, permanently blind
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Speaker 3: and sometimes unfortunately, and that's such a good point because
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Speaker 3: without our eyes are learning and our brain can't develop correctly. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and that's another interesting point. Children can have twenty twenty vision.
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Speaker 3: I'll never forget a case I had about six or
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Speaker 3: seven years ago. I went and did a screening at
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Speaker 3: a local school, and this child had twenty twenty vision,
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Speaker 3: but essentially they had were very very far sighted. And
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Speaker 3: he had twenty twenty vision, but he was never going
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Speaker 3: to be successful in school because he had this insane
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Speaker 3: demand on his visual system just to see in the distance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so he didn't have what he needed to
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Speaker 3: function well up close.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So I hope sure.
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Speaker 3: With glasses fixed that and he's doing very very well.
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Speaker 2: Well. I hope everyone puts that in mind. You know,
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Speaker 2: this person, we should check it when we're one that
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Speaker 2: assume every everything's fine in the eyes at age one?
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Speaker 2: What would you tell a parent after that? When should
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Speaker 2: they get their next die exam?
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Speaker 3: I would look at the family's history. You know, if
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Speaker 3: if they tend to have a genetic predisposition for glasses,
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Speaker 3: we might see him annually. If if there isn't, then
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Speaker 3: maybe we'll see him in three or four years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, everyone, Yeah, everyone assumes that you know, let's
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Speaker 2: this person looks like they're in their twenties or thirties
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Speaker 2: is asking this question, So I guess even if they see, well,
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Speaker 2: what's the advantage of going in, you know, to see
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Speaker 2: what kind of things do you look for in an
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Speaker 2: exam besides just the vision.
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Speaker 3: We're going to look for glaucoma.
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Speaker 2: Okay, now, what is that?
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Speaker 3: Glaucoma is damage to the nerve in the back of
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Speaker 3: the eye. It's uncommon in a twenty year old, but
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Speaker 3: not impossible. You can be born with glaucoma. But it's
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Speaker 3: a combination of factors that is usually associated with high pressure.
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Speaker 3: But the reality is that thirty percent of people who
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Speaker 3: come in for an eye exam will have a normal pressure.
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Speaker 3: We have to look at other factors again, the anatomical
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Speaker 3: structure of the nerve, aily history, whether they've had an injury,
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Speaker 3: a whole host of factors, and so people can have
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Speaker 3: a tumor in the eye and not know it. People
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Speaker 3: can have a retinal detachment, they can have bleeding, and
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Speaker 3: all of those factors that we're looking at when we're
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Speaker 3: examining a patient's eyes is to find those things that
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Speaker 3: they may or may not be aware of they can
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Speaker 3: have twenty twenty visions and have full blown glaucoma. They
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Speaker 3: can have twenty twenty visions still have a retinal detachment. Wow.
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Speaker 3: And you know, usually we have symptoms with a retinal detachment,
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Speaker 3: but I've had a couple of cases where there was
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Speaker 3: mental minimal to any symptoms that that needed surgery.
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Speaker 2: Well, so, so there's a lot of things that you
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Speaker 2: look at just besides the.
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Speaker 3: Vision correct and you know, all of these things can
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Speaker 3: either be life threatening or certainly vision threatening at the
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Speaker 3: very least. And uh, you know, we pick up diabetes
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Speaker 3: during eye exams where people didn't know they had it,
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Speaker 3: high pertension, high blood pressure as well. And so you know,
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Speaker 3: for someone who's twenty, we often feel immortal almost, you know,
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Speaker 3: we have that that vigor about life and and but
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Speaker 3: the fact is that that we if we've never had
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Speaker 3: our eyes examined, we can have vision that's barely legal
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Speaker 3: to drive, but but puts us at a disadvantage for
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Speaker 3: being as safe as we could be.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're with me on that, Yeah, I am, I'm
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Speaker 2: with you on that. You know, and when people think
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Speaker 2: about health in general, you think, you know, what, what
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Speaker 2: are more important things in our eyes to prevent from
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Speaker 2: having a problem, because if the eyes are poor, you know,
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Speaker 2: everything else is going to go downhill pretty quick.
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Speaker 3: We can't function. You know, when I talk to patients,
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Speaker 3: it's often they often tell me, this is the last
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Speaker 3: sense that I want to lose. Yeah, yeah, you know
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Speaker 3: what's ironic, it's the one that people take for granted
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Speaker 3: the most.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what we want to you know, really
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Speaker 2: promote today. You know, if you haven't got your eyes
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Speaker 2: checked or thought about it, get in there and get
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Speaker 2: them checked. The technology is really great today's and you know,
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Speaker 2: and you know, I had my eyes chick not too
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Speaker 2: long ago, and it didn't bother me too much at all.
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Speaker 3: No, it's really uh one of the the uh relatively
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Speaker 3: straightforward processes that we can do that uh low inconvenience
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Speaker 3: and it's not you know if it's hard to put
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Speaker 3: a price tag on our site, but you know it's
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Speaker 3: it's pretty affordable.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, well we're going to go to break listener,
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Speaker 2: We're going to be back. We're talking with doctor Todd Lang.
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Speaker 2: He practices in Florida. He's answering question about our eyes.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm doctor James Markham with our special guest,
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Speaker 2: doctor Todd Lang, and he's teaching us about eyes and
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Speaker 2: the importance of it to our overall health. And if
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Speaker 2: you think about it, if your eyes aren't happy and
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Speaker 2: you can't see, your brain is affected. If your brain's affected,
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Speaker 2: your you know, your stress levels are affected. So the
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Speaker 2: eyes are very important. The last segment we talked about
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Speaker 2: the importance of getting an eye exam, and if you
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Speaker 2: haven't had one and you're over the age one, you
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Speaker 2: need one and you probably need to see someone that's
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Speaker 2: really trained in doing this. And eye doctors have special
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Speaker 2: training in all this to look at some of this
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Speaker 2: stuff and a great place to get the screening test
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Speaker 2: is usually with an optometrist and then if they find
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Speaker 2: any major issues, they can let you know early. So
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Speaker 2: screening is very important, Doctor Lang. Our next question comes
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Speaker 2: to us from the Australia. Actually, and this question says,
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Speaker 2: everyone in my families wears eyeglasses or contacts. Is there
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Speaker 2: anything I can do to improve my vision? So let's
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Speaker 2: talk about things that people can do to help their visions,
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Speaker 2: and we'll also talk about things that might hurt people's vision. Okay,
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Speaker 2: so what if thing that can do to improve an eyes?
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Speaker 2: So let's say let's say my eyes are bad what
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Speaker 2: can or not? So, well, is there anything if I
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Speaker 2: have genetic problems that I can do to improve my eyesight?
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Speaker 2: You know, you hear about these vitamins and all sorts
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Speaker 2: of things. Well, what do you think about these things?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, as far as controlling near sightedness with vitamins,
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Speaker 3: and that's that's out of the question.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: You know, we we use vitamin therapy and and omega
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Speaker 3: three therapies for for dry eyes okay, uh, and have
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Speaker 3: some very effective for certain patients. But as far as
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Speaker 3: the functionality of the eyes, you know, the most of
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Speaker 3: that is genetic. And you know there are sometimes when
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Speaker 3: when people can end up being the only one in
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Speaker 3: their family that have have the need for glasses, and
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Speaker 3: and that just uh is kind of a natural result
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Speaker 3: believe of the genetic tree or the family tree of
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Speaker 3: genetic distribution. But there are certain things that we do
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Speaker 3: that we know are important for a vision hygiene, if
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Speaker 3: you will, And that is there's a certainly some stress
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Speaker 3: on the focusing system when we work on computers, when
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Speaker 3: we read, and so taking a break for a few
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Speaker 3: minutes hourly will reduce the potential for eyestrain and fluctuating vision.
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Speaker 3: That ultimately come when we overdo those kinds of activities. Now,
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Speaker 3: some people also have challenges with the way the two
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Speaker 3: eyes work together. We call that stereo vision, if you will,
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Speaker 3: or binocular vision. And there are mechanisms that the eyes
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Speaker 3: use in order to to to point the eyes at
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Speaker 3: the same place that plane that the eyes are focusing
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Speaker 3: from a from a focusing standpoint, there there are two
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Speaker 3: conditions that are linked. And if the eye is is
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Speaker 3: not pointing at the same place that the that the
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Speaker 3: focusing part of it is, you know, let's uh, I'm
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Speaker 3: trying to think of an analogy. Everyone has used a
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Speaker 3: a magnifying burn, a hole and a piece of paper
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Speaker 3: or a leaf or something like that. Certainly a lot
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Speaker 3: of people have I think can relate to this. But
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Speaker 3: when light passes through that lens, the focal point of
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Speaker 3: that lens is where the very smallest pinpoint is on
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Speaker 3: that piece of paper. Say it's ten inches away. Okay,
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Speaker 3: that's the focusing plane. But now if that's where you're
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Speaker 3: what the lenses of your eyes are focusing at. Now
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Speaker 3: the eyes have to be pointing in that same place
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Speaker 3: in order for everything to work right. And so if
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Speaker 3: those aren't working right, then eyestrained people happens, and people
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Speaker 3: will skip lines when they're reading. Then they have to
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Speaker 3: go back and reread those lines, and comprehension starts to
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Speaker 3: suffer and retention. And so there are things that we
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Speaker 3: can do, uh, sort of like physical therapy for the
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Speaker 3: eye in certain cases, certain conditions are very amenable to
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Speaker 3: that type of therapy, and then there are others that
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Speaker 3: really are much more challenging. And so that's one example
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Speaker 3: where each eye can have twenty twenty vision, but they
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Speaker 3: can still have a pretty significant vision problem.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so other ways to improve our eyes. How about carrots?
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Speaker 2: You always hear about carrots. Will carrots help my vision?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, we were at the same conference here
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Speaker 3: a few weeks ago, and as we were, just you
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Speaker 3: shared with the audience earlier. And the fact is that
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Speaker 3: I have learned just in the last two to three
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Speaker 3: years as I've studied the eyes and lifestyle management and
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Speaker 3: that kind of thing. And the truth is that we
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Speaker 3: now know that macular degeneration, which most everybody has heard of,
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Speaker 3: damage to the photoreceptors in the central part of our
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Speaker 3: retina where life focuses, is related to heart disease. We
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Speaker 3: now know that heart disease is very amenable to diet changes,
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Speaker 3: and so carrots are definitely beneficial. Screens are especially helpful
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Speaker 3: having a plant based diet. We are going to find
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Speaker 3: in the next five to ten years that we're going
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Speaker 3: to manage eye disease. I believe with plant based diet.
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Speaker 2: Program that's incredible. Well, let me ask you, should ice
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Speaker 2: have sunscreen? What do you think about the eyes?
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Speaker 3: You know, you hear about you know sunglasses. Sunglasses are
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Speaker 3: are still very important. We know that cataracts and macular
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Speaker 3: degeneration are are closely linked to the amount of UV
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Speaker 3: absorption that occurs and free radical damage that occurs in
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Speaker 3: those structures, and so protecting them from the sun is
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Speaker 3: still beneficial. There is a wide variability and quality of sunglasses,
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Speaker 3: not necessarily in the level of protection. The majority of
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Speaker 3: people just by the fact of having tinted sunglasses will
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Speaker 3: be helpful. But the products that you buy that you
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Speaker 3: can get very inexpensively, really have poor vision and can
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Speaker 3: actually create ice train and so yes, we still want
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Speaker 3: to protect our eyes from the sun. Just a large
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Speaker 3: rimmed hat. It is huge if someone's going to be
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Speaker 3: out for an extent period of time.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Now we have a bunch of questions of coming
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Speaker 2: about things that might damage the eyes. How about people
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Speaker 2: that wear contacts? Does that actually contact lenses? I know
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Speaker 2: they've improved. Do they damage the eyes?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know that's kind of a we've got to
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Speaker 3: balance that.
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Speaker 2: Ques.
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Speaker 3: The answer to the question is that, yes, contact lenses
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Speaker 3: can damage the eyes if they are used in a
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Speaker 3: non compliant fashion by your doctor, and if they're not
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Speaker 3: cleaned properly, if they are not disposed of as recommended,
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Speaker 3: you can get cornial ulcers that can blind you in
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Speaker 3: twenty four to forty eight hours, well if not treated
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Speaker 3: in a timely fashion and treated properly. So prevention is
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Speaker 3: the name of the game. And when we do that,
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Speaker 3: the serious problems are quite rare.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, now you know, doctor Lang, we hear so
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Speaker 2: much and there's so many advertisements on about lasik and
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Speaker 2: all these fancy procedures that are done to the eyes,
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Speaker 2: you know, years ago as radio caritonomy. What's your take
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Speaker 2: on all this is, are those any more healthy for
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Speaker 2: the eyes and just good old glasses or is there
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Speaker 2: some risk to all this?
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Speaker 3: Well, lasik is considered a cosmetic procedure. It absolutely does
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Speaker 3: scar the cornea. Okay, if a person has dry eyes
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Speaker 3: or even mildly dry eyes prior to LASIK, there's a
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Speaker 3: moderately high risk that that problem is going to be
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Speaker 3: worse following surgery for at least a year. And we
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Speaker 3: have to remember that we're changing the shape of the cornea.
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Speaker 3: We're changing the natural shape of the cornea. The majority
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Speaker 3: of LASIK that's done is for near sighted people, and
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Speaker 3: in that case, the apex of the cornea that the
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Speaker 3: very front of it is flattened right, so that when
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Speaker 3: the eyelids are or are going up and down over
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Speaker 3: the surface of the cornea, it's not spreading the tears
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Speaker 3: in the same way. So and I that was already
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Speaker 3: somewhat susceptible to tear quality problems, et cetera, they're they're
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Speaker 3: going to have some additional problems at least for a time.
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Speaker 3: We'll have to use artificial tears several times a day.
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Speaker 2: You know, And I think that's so important, doctor Line,
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Speaker 2: because a lot of people just don't get complete information
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Speaker 2: before they rush into these things. You know, now we
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Speaker 2: only have about thirty forty seconds left. What do you
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Speaker 2: want to leave our audience with today. As far as
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Speaker 2: eyes go, you have anything burning in your heart you
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Speaker 2: want to leave everyone with today, Well.
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Speaker 3: I think the key is prevention, and our eyes are
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Speaker 3: no different than the rest of the body, and our
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Speaker 3: eyes really are a window to what's happening elsewhere. And
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Speaker 3: the best that people can do for themselves is is
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Speaker 3: do all of the healthy things that can protect their
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Speaker 3: their full system in their eyes.
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Speaker 2: Well, doctor Lang, we want to thank you for joining
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Speaker 2: I'm until next time. I'm doctor James Martin with doctor
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Speaker 2: Todd Lang. Thanks for joining us today.
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