What if your diet is quietly changing how you see?

Happy Saturday Reader,

Are we really “just getting older”—or are our eyes trying to tell us something?

We’ve been taught to expect vision loss as the years go by.
Reading glasses, dimmer nights, the slow blur we shrug off as “normal.”

But a growing body of research—and one remarkable eye surgeon—suggest something different.

My own sister told me that eventually I'd need glasses (she's had contacts for years).

I took that as a challenge.
Thankfully, I don't need glasses for most things--just reading product labels these days.
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What if diet, stress, and even emotional balance play a bigger role in how well we see than anyone’s been talking about?

That’s the question I explore in this week’s episode of The Green Living Now Podcast: Home of The Elegant Rebellion with Dr. Edward Kondrot, a board-certified ophthalmologist and surgeon who bridges medicine with holistic healing.

Before you listen, here’s what the data itself is whispering:

Research Spotlight: What the Data Says About Eye Health

1️⃣ Processed foods triple the risk of certain age-related eye diseases.​
People who eat the most ultra-processed foods are 3× more likely to develop late-stage macular degeneration than those with whole-food diets.
​(National Eye Institute data, 2021)

2️⃣ The color on your plate predicts the clarity in your eyes.​
Leafy greens and deeply colored produce supply carotenoids—nutrients that accumulate in the retina and protect against oxidative damage.
​(Johns Hopkins Medicine)

3️⃣ Stress and hydration matter more than most people realize.​
Chronic stress increases free radicals in the eyes, while dehydration reduces nutrient delivery to ocular tissue.
​(Frontiers in Nutrition, 2024)

4️⃣ Smoking and high-glycemic foods speed degeneration.​
Both flood the system with oxidative stress—essentially “rusting” the eye from within.

It’s clear: our vision is shaped by what we eat, how we move, and how we live.
But how much control do we really have—and what does healing look like when a surgeon starts treating the whole person?

Find out in this week’s episode: “The Hidden Cause of Vision Loss | Eye Surgeon Explains.

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On Spotify:

The Hidden Cause of Vision L... Oct 25 · The Green Living Now Pod... 40:06   ​

And on the other podcast platforms

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