Almost every day, I get a question about blue light and how it may affect our eye health and overall wellness. Research on the effects of blue light on our health has been a topic of interest in mainstream media. What does the research say about the ill effects of blue light? Here is one article I found interesting that I would like to share with you—a small blue light study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. The researchers…
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Dr. Jen Pfleghaar, DO, ABOIM @integrativedrmom on her podcast recently. Dr. Jen is very passionate about health. She completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine. Healthcare is often symptom-focused and reactive, rather than prevention-focused and proactive. Patients and physicians rarely discuss nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle change, and instead focus mainly on diagnosis and treatment of disease. Many clinicians feel unprepared to discuss the safe and effective use of dietary supplements or herbal medicines,…
Here is a great presentation I gave recently that I wanted to share with you. I talk about my history and how, as an eye doctor, I came to work with children struggling with their development and how that lead to KidPower. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and…
If you've reached your 40s or 50s, chances are good that, at some point, you have found yourself pushing your reading material away from your face to see it more clearly. In this classic sign of aging, your eyes have begun to lose their ability to focus close up. Several conditions can cause this loss of near vision, collectively called "farsightedness." The two most common conditions are refractive errors called hyperopia and presbyopia. Presbyopia is a more advanced form of…
I receive more e-mails from followers who suffer the dilemma of seeing two objects instead of one—which we call Double Vision. Also known as diplopia, the condition is a visual phenomenon in which a person sees two images of a single object instead of a single, clear image. These two images may appear side by side, overlapping, or vertically separated. Double Vision can occur in one or both eyes and be constant or intermittent, depending on the underlying cause. One…
