{"podcast":{"title":"Doctor Eye Health Podcast","slug":"doctor-eye-health-podcast-7557833","podcast_index_feed_id":7557833,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/doctor-eye-health/","website_url":"https://doctor-eye-health.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/286d1b04-6897-441c-8105-5143d1b78aa9/FINAL-COVER-ART-Dr-Eye-Health.jpg","author":"Dr. Joseph Allen","episode_count":29,"summary":"Your eyes are talking. Learn to listen. The Doctor Eye Health Podcast keeps eye care simple and practical.. Rooted in timeless clinical wisdom with modern optometry research, Dr. Joseph Allen, a board-certified eye doctor and trusted educator, delivers vision care tips that help you protect your eyesight for life. This optometry podcast covers the topics people actually search for: dry eye routines that work, eye floater treatments, myopia control, cataracts, glaucoma, thyroid eye disease, and eye strain from screen time. You’ll also hear clear talk on blue light, contact lens hygiene, kids’ vision, nutrition for eye and brain health, red light therapy, smart eyewear, and when LASIK or other eye surgeries make sense. Whether you wear glasses or contacts, are preparing for an eye exam, study optometry, or just want daily eye health tips, you’ll find practical steps you can use at home and in the clinic. Dr. Allen brings in world-class experts to explain what works, what doesn’t, and what’s still being studied. New content drops reliably: one in-depth interview each month and at least one bite-size weekly lesson with usable checklists, myth busting, and vision advice you can trust.…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doctor-eye-health-podcast-7557833"},"episode":{"title":"Is Your Gut Destroying Your Vision? (Expert Interview)","slug":"is-your-gut-destroying-your-vision-expert-interview","published_at":"2026-03-04T10:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doctor-eye-health-podcast-7557833/is-your-gut-destroying-your-vision-expert-interview","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doctor-eye-health-podcast-7557833","url":"https://doctor-eye-health.captivate.fm/episode/is-your-gut-destroying-your-vision-expert-interview","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f1072ba9-b759-4f68-abbb-b606281be197.mp3","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…","meta_description":"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 w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3983,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/doctor-eye-health-podcast-7557833/episodes/is-your-gut-destroying-your-vision-expert-interview/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doctor-eye-health-podcast-7557833/is-your-gut-destroying-your-vision-expert-interview.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}