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198. Dr. Bryce Appelbaum: Your Eyes Are Connected to Everything—Focus, Balance, Brain Health & Aging
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What if your eyesight is 20/20—but your vision still isn't working the way it should? Dr. Bryce Appelbaum specializes in functional vision and the connection between the eyes and the brain. In this conversation, he explains why seeing clearly is only one piece of vision—and how the brain's ability to process what we see can influence reading, focus, coordination, balance, motion sickness, athletic performance, and everyday life. We also explore what hours of daily screen time may be doing to our visual system. Our eyes and brains weren't designed to spend all day focused on a screen inches from our faces , and Dr. Appelbaum explains how sustained near work can contribute to eye strain,…