Top Myopia Treatments: Natural Remedy, Medicine, Lifestyle | Dr. Rani Banik

Ophthalmologist Dr. Rani Banik M.D. says she “went for decades wearing the wrong [lens] prescription.”

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“Instead of a minus 5, my right eye was actually a minus 3.5; and instead of a minus 3, my left eye was a minus 1.5,” she says, detailing the sizeable overcorrection that was only picked up when she had her true prescription measured—a process she outlines in “Near-Sight No More?” on “Vital Signs with Brendon Fallon.”

Why do eye doctors say children should spend more time outdoors to safeguard their vision? Do the benefits of laser eye surgery outweigh the risks?

Tune in to this 360-degree look at myopia treatments, from the natural, like eye-health nutrients and exercises, to the medicinal, like low-dose atropine eyedrops to relax the eye’s ciliary muscle, in Dr. Banik’s return to “Vital Signs.”

Dr. Banik combines her neuro-ophthalmological understanding of the eye and brain with her functional medical expertise to broadly answer the challenge of myopia.

On the functional medicine-nutrient therapy side, she describes animal studies showing that certain plant compounds, called anthocyanins, can help relax blood vessels, muscles, and eyestrain—and potentially reduce myopia progression.

Which foods and supplements are the recommended sources of anthocyanins?

Of the various medical modes for treating myopia, which does Dr. Banik favor for patients in her own practice?

Watch “Near-Sight No More?” for integrative and practical avenues to reducing myopia.

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Related study:

Time Outdoors in Reducing Myopia: A School-Based Cluster Randomized Trial with Objective Monitoring of Outdoor Time and Light Intensity—ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642022004833

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