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Is Your Gut Destroying Your Vision? (Expert Interview)
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- Doctor Eye Health Podcast
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- Mar 4, 2026
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Summary
What if your dry eye, macular degeneration, or even glaucoma didn’t actually begin in your eyes? What if the root cause of your eye inflammation started with poor gut health? On the Dr. Eye Health Podcast, Dr. Joseph Allen sits down with dry eye specialist and nutrition expert Mila Ioussifova to explain the gut–eye axis and how gut imbalance and microbiome health may be fueling dry eye disease, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. From gut health and dry eye to probiotics, inflammation, and autoimmune eye disease, this conversation explores how your microbiome may be affecting your vision more than you realize. What You’ll Learn ✅ What the gut–eye axis is and how your microbiome influences eye inflammation ✅ How gut dysbiosis may contribute to dry eye, glaucoma, and macular degeneration ✅ The real connection between rosacea, autoimmune disease, and ocular surface disease ✅ The difference between probiotics and prebiotics and why most supplements fall short Check out https://offer.inmodeaesthetics.ca/envision to learn how Envision Eye’s treatments could be the next step in your dry eye journey. Timestamps (00:00) Could your vision problems actually start in your gut? (02:26) Why nutrition changed Mila’s dry eye treatment approach (07:21) Why eye doctors should ask about bowel health (14:02) Gut dysbiosis explained (19:50) Leaky gut and systemic inflammation (29:38) Eye diseases linked to gut imbalance (35:31) What damages your microbiome (46:27) Probiotics vs prebiotics Key Takeaways 🔹 Inflammation that begins in the gut can circulate through the bloodstream and affect the eyes. 🔹 Dry eye, rosacea, glaucoma, and macular degeneration all show emerging links to gut dysbiosis. 🔹 Antibiotics, processed foods, stress, and poor sleep disrupt your microbiome. 🔹 Supporting gut h…