Can Eye Yoga Really Reverse Your Eye Number? Dr Siddhi Shah

Can Eye Yoga Really Reverse Your Eye Number? Dr Siddhi Shah

Author Name:Neha Ranglani

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ఈ వీడియో "Eye Yoga" గురించి చాలా ముఖ్యమైన విషయాలు చెప్తుంది. ముఖ్యమైన పాయింట్లు Telugu లో:

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### కళ్ళకు యోగా అంటే ఏమిటి?

కళ్ళలో దాదాపు 20 లక్షల పార్ట్స్ ఉంటాయి. Eye Yoga మూడు సూత్రాలపై పనిచేస్తుంది — కళ్ళను **Stimulate చేయడం, Relax చేయడం, Strengthen చేయడం**. Dr. Siddhi Shah 12+ సంవత్సరాల అనుభవంతో 1 లక్షకు పైగా కేసులు చూసారు. ఆమె తన అత్తగారి వద్ద నేర్చుకుని, 20 సంవత్సరాలుగా glasses లేకుండా ఉన్నారు.

### కళ్ళు పాడవడానికి కారణాలు

- **అతి ముఖ్యమైన కారణం:** Screen time (చాలా మంది రోజుకు 14 గంటలు!)

- తప్పుడు posture (వంగి చదవడం, పడుకుని mobile చూడడం)

- Stress, gut issues, medications

- Genetics కూడా role పోషిస్తాయి కానీ **lifestyle ముందు**

### Screen వల్ల కళ్ళలో జరిగే నష్టాలు

- Myopia (eyeball elongation)

- దెబ్బతిన్న దూర/సమీప దృష్టి

- Floaters, Dryness, Double vision

- చిన్నపిల్లల్లో Squint కూడా వస్తుంది

### పెద్దలు చేసే 3 పెద్ద తప్పులు

1. గంటల తరబడి break లేకుండా screen చూడడం

2. AC rooms లో ఎక్కువ సమయం (కళ్ళు dry అవుతాయి)

3. Entertainment కూడా mobile లో చూడడం — **TV/Big screen నియమం పెట్టుకోవాలి**

### రోజువారీ చేయవలసిన పనులు

- ప్రతి 30 నిమిషాలకు break తీసుకోండి — కళ్ళు మూసుకోండి, కిటికీలో బయటకు చూడండి

- రాత్రి ఇంటికి వచ్చాక **rose water cotton pads** కళ్ళపై పెట్టుకోండి

- పొద్దున్నే లేచిన వెంటనే phone చూడకండి — normal alarm clock వాడండి

- రోజుకు **20-25 నిమిషాలు** eye exercises చేస్తే సరిపోతుంది

### పిల్లల విషయంలో తల్లిదండ్రులు గమనించవలసినవి

- TV చూస్తున్నప్పుడు కళ్ళు చిన్నవి చేస్తున్నారా?

- అతిగా కళ్ళు రుద్దుకుంటున్నారా, కన్నీరు వస్తుందా?

- Car numbers, hoardings చదవమని **ఒక్కో కన్ను మూసి** test చేయండి

- 8 సంవత్సరాల లోపు screen వల్ల కళ్ళ growth stunted అవుతుంది

### ముఖ్యమైన హెచ్చరిక

YouTube లో exercises చూసి **మీరే చేయకండి** — తప్పు exercises complicated eye disorders కు adverse effect చేస్తాయి. **Trained instructor దగ్గరే నేర్చుకోండి.**

### Number తగ్గించవచ్చా?

అవును, కానీ willpower + faith + diligence అవసరం. 80 ఏళ్ళ మహిళ 14 సంవత్సరాల drop-dependency ని **9 నెలల్లో** తొలగించారు. LASIC చేయించుకున్న వారు కూడా eye exercises తో number రాకుండా maintain చేయవచ్చు.

Transcript:
(00:00) What is eye yoga exactly? I did it and it's been what 20 years or so and I've not worn glasses. I've never gone for an eye check. You want to walk your entire life. You want to squat everything. You exercise. Same as for the eyes. YouTube exercise. We have done online exercises and numberus 9.
(00:17) You're telling me I can reverse this number. You will completely be glasses free because you will go back to being 6x6 vision. So AI or screens time my kid who has a high number at the age of five. How will they maintain till 50? So are you trying to tell me that we should not watch TV also with the lights off? I had a lady like that 80 years old who was on drops for many many I think 14 years to be precise and a severe complicated eye condition also to which I told her that you might definitely take 2 years or more but she was too
(00:46) good. I mean she finished it in Hey everyone today I have a very interesting guest on this episode of that healing feeling. Her name is Siddhisha. She's an eye yoga specialist and the founder of the eye yoga center in Bandra, Mumbai with over 12 years of experience and more than one lakh vision restoration cases.
(01:10) Siddhi combines ancient yoga practices and modern understanding of eye and nutrition to help people improve, repair and restore their eyesight naturally. In a world where screens dominate our lives and quick fixes like spectacles and surgery is a norm, Siddhi is bringing attention back to natural eye health and vision restoration.
(01:32) So join me in welcoming Siddhi Sha. So welcome Siddhi on my podcast that healing feeling and I'm extremely elated to have you today because >> I have my personal interest in this conversation. >> Thank you. It's all about eyes and I want to know so much about the work that you do. I was so intrigued when I read your profile and I was like okay I need to understand how this works because I I myself have a number since I was 12 years old.
(01:59) >> Okay. >> And then I did a lasic and the number sort of come back. So I want to discuss all that with you. So thank you for being here. >> Well thank you for inviting. In fact uh you know not everybody knows about it and anybody who comes to us always asks that uh uh you know oh wow there's something called eye yoga also but it's been there for years in fact in the western civilization there's somebody called Dr.
(02:23) Bates who started it in the 19th century. >> Okay. >> So there were eye exercises and all happening. It's also mentioned in our oponyish >> you know we have thratak we have the palming exercise. So everything is in our culture. So superb. It's amazing to come here. >> So thank you for that. >> Super. So let's get started with uh understanding how you got into this field like I yoga.
(02:44) What made you get into this space where there are very few people who are doing this? >> Honestly I think it's God's grace. I think my dad up there has also been doing that because I'm it's in my family. My mother-in-law started this in 93 at the same place in Bandra East, Kalanagar and uh yeah so she started this 30 years back and just when I was in college and you know you get glasses because of uh you know screens and lifestyle so I got it and she just told me to give it a try and you know already there's a dialogue in the head that
(03:16) these things don't really work. >> Yeah. you know, and I did it and it's uh been what 20 years or so and I've not worn glasses. I've never gone for an eye checkup >> really. >> So when that happened, it's somehow I think something clicked in me and uh >> I just thought that this needs to go out to the world to everybody to all kids especially and I remember my mom-in-law she used to always say >> every kid every adult everybody there's going to come a time when everybody's going to need it.
(03:45) >> Yeah. And now it is the time because we all are on our screens. >> I think I also got it because obviously everyone in my family has a number except my sister, my grandparents, my parents, everyone. And then I used to sit very close to the screen as a kid. So I want to understand this from you. Is that a factor that causes number or is it just genetics or what is it? >> So see definitely factors like screens.
(04:12) I would say topmost is screens >> about it will be your posture. If you're an avid reader, if you have a gut issue, if you have a cold cough issue, if you're taking you know a lot of medications to fix some other imbalances in the body, uh you know, if your lifestyle habits, which is your stress and also all these factors contribute to you getting an eye issue >> and genetics also play a role, but I would also put take these first.
(04:41) the lifestyle factors like they always say you know genes uh load the gun but lifestyle pulls the trigger. >> Yeah. It's always the genetic lifestyle habits you know that cause the genetic uh issues >> right but tell me is deterioration of your eyes with age a thing or you've seen people who have aged but do not have eye issues at all.
(05:05) So we have uh somebody uh at currently doing our program has not come to me for an eye number has not come to me for any eye disorder. He's 73. He's just come because he's got dryness. >> Okay. >> And he just and he was a banker and uh he's just got a dryness issue for which he's tried drops and then he thought I should try something and that's why he's here but he has no eye issue.
(05:27) >> So what did you recommend him for dry eyes? >> So just eye exercises. So when you stimulate your tear glands and you exercise it, your dryness will reduce. >> Wow. >> So it's not compulsory age related. And one of the examples that I always give is you know when I'm traveling >> and I remember when I went to Shimla up north and you're seeing these old porters but nobody's wearing glasses, >> nobody has eye issues you know.
(05:53) So when they say of course age deterioration >> but it is also because majorly lifestyle is such that the deterioration is happening but it's not like set in stone that because you're old your eyes are going to deteriorate. >> Okay. No >> but you know they say you get a number after 40 the reading number. >> But like I said I have a 73 year old >> and nothing >> absolutely nothing.
(06:17) But he's got better eyesight than most of the kids who come and do my program. So but the exercises that you teach can also prevent you from getting the progressive number uh with age like the 40 above >> the reading classes that you get that can be prevented. That's why we do it. Now why do we exercise? >> Why should we exercise? Now 100 years back if we told our grandparents that we pay money and go for exercise they all laughed at us.
(06:40) >> Yeah. >> Because but we don't have that kind of work that you know I don't need to move my body to get that flour. The same as with the eyes. So if you don't want any degeneration of the muscles, you want to walk your entire life, you want to squat, everything, you exercise. >> Yeah. >> Same as for the eyes.
(06:57) >> It's just that nobody knew about it because whose eyes got spoiled? Nobody's not till now. Till ' 90s who had major eye issues? >> Very less. So from your experience of working with so many cases I I read about your work you've worked with some one lakh cases and you've actually >> reversed them the conditions eye conditions >> what are the most common eye problems you see and I'm talking about adults right now we'll come to kids later but I want to talk about adults >> so u in adults majorly I see the one
(07:33) dryness is a very severe problem right now >> of course uh you know the high number that also they're getting but one thing that I've noticed now and this is postcoid >> that complicated eye disorders which used to happen later in age >> or maybe if somebody had a very high eye number they live till and there was no eye disorder that happened now I'm seeing complicated eye disorders like you know a keraticonus issue or macular degeneration issue happening a little earlier >> you know like for adults and dryness is
(08:06) a very common problem that I see in most of them M and that also because I think most of the adults are also on the screen. Everyone is scrolling through reels and sitting on screens through the day right. So do you attribute screens is one of the major cause positive factors for dryness and >> definitely in my experience definitely >> screens come top.
(08:29) So when we get kids or adults or anybody and the first how much is your screen time? It's they don't know it's just a lot. >> Yeah. I mean I think 5 6 hours a day to has become normal. >> That's very normal. That's very we have 14 hours and >> 14 hours. >> Yeah. People are working there in front of because you're waking up to an alarm which is on the phone >> then you're checking your WhatsApp then your emails education entertainment work everything is in front of the screen.
(08:54) >> When you spoke about the complicated eye disorders uh are you also talking about cataracts and glaucoma and all of these issues that can get okay with eye yoga. So see one is what I look at is is of course it's case to case what's your intention how well do you follow the program how uh you know how is your body in terms of even taking that healing >> that somebody with the complicated eye issue you know 80 year old we'll get it done in a year's time but somebody will take probably 5 years or so you know
(09:25) >> so of course it's case to case but I would like to answer this is it's not about a corrective problem that I have a problem It's more about preserving it >> that if I'm going to lift till age of 90 I have to make sure that nothing was wrong with my eyes >> that so whenever senior citizens come to my center to do exercises I tell them forget that is the outcome they with exercises your intention everything with the you know but what is important is you need to know that you if you have a complicated eye disorder you have to
(10:02) take care of your eyes just to make sure you preserve it till the time you're here >> you know so it's more of preserving the eyesight because when it comes to a complicated eye disorder you don't know >> yeah anything can happen anything can literally happen >> so tell me now coming to the core of this >> what is eye yoga exactly and how do you train the eye muscles I want to understand the science of it >> uh so honestly it's so experience-based because we do get people asking us that can where can we learn this and all but
(10:32) It's it's just that look at the eye as a factory, >> okay? There are almost 2 million parts, okay, which work in sync for you to see. >> Majority of the parts like the cornea, the pupil, the lens, the retina, we work on those things with three simple principles in our program which is stimulating uh relaxing the eye and making sure that we strengthen the eye.
(10:57) So if you if I were to look at a factory where there are all parts which need proper oiling for it to work better so that it doesn't rust, I'll have to make sure that the parts move inside. Now how am I going to do that? I'm going to do that with exercises. So it's just simple strengthen, stimulate and relax your eyes and that's it.
(11:17) The exercises just work on these three things. And is it customized for every client or is it like a specific protocol that you give everyone like a like a stereotype protocol for everyone? >> No. So there are some exercises which are common but there are some it has to be customized like if somebody comes with a glaucoma problem I cannot give them all the exercises because that can have an adverse effect also.
(11:39) >> So there are definitely customized. In fact we do have checkups every week >> where we check how is it going, how is the vision, how is the dryness, everything. So we keep changing because today if somebody comes in and is perfectly okay and tomorrow if they've come with a late you know night and their eyes are red and all they can't do all exercises >> right >> so it's definitely customized >> and what you're trying to tell me is that your exercises are different from the ones that you find online because
(12:05) online there are a lot of videos of eye exercises now but how do you discern and choose for yourself and understand if that's really for you? So see there's a world of knowledge out there and it's right the knowledge is right okay but you need an instructor to help you how to maneuver through those exercises >> now you know like we have a fitness instructor but maybe a fitness instructor will help you if your posture is okay >> you know so same as with the eyes there are exercises there are some true but like I'd like to mention an example we
(12:42) did have somebody who called us from Singapore who said that uh you know um how do we know exercises will not have a bad effect because YouTube exercise we have done online exercises and numberus >> oh my god but you have to consider things like the shape of the eye how good is the sleep what is the lifestyle you know in between the exercises is is anybody facing any dryness or anything else so you have to keep correcting >> yeah So it's there it's true but it's you know uh >> so you need a coach basically guidance
(13:19) is what you're trying to do people should not pick it up just from the net and do it all by themselves >> absolutely not absolutely not and like I said complicated eye disorders can't do it only >> it will have an adverse effect you can't do it >> okay Siddhi now I want to ask you about my own personal situation okay I situation I like I told you I got a number at the age of 12 and I was devastated and that too I didn't know I had a number.
(13:47) I used to sit at the back bench and I used to you know like literally squint and see like this and then only I could read >> properly but nobody ever realized. Then we had this eye checkup in school that happened like a normal uh you know how you have the health camps and stuff in school and they told me I have a number. I literally crumbled there.
(14:07) >> I went home I cried. diet because you know there was just something as a kid you don't want to wear specks you know you saw adults and your parents and grandparents wearing it and as a kid I was like >> I don't want to wear this but then I had no choice and then my number increased increased increased it went to minus 6 >> okay and then I used to feel like a blind person when I would wake up in the morning I even you you know to even find my specs I had to like literally do this and I could not get into the pool like
(14:35) if I would get in the pool I couldn't see much >> you know so it was difficult And my father saw that and he's like you know I just cannot see her like this so I will get a lasic operation done. >> So when I was 19 he did my lasacic surgery and it went very well. It went well.
(14:53) I like was number free for many many years and then the number now started coming back like about 2 years back. I could again feel the same thing that I can't read. Why am I squinting while reading >> and now I'm wearing glasses or contact lenses. But I want to understand this. there are many people like me who would have done a surgery and the number would have come back.
(15:12) >> How can you help them if I have to come to you? So see first uh you rightly described you got the surgery done it was nice you know the science is moving medically we are equipped to solve a problem you don't have to deal with you know just not being able to see >> but again coming back to how do we preserve it you know like I get people ask me you know can you give us the shortest and the fastest way to keep sure that our eye health is I always tell them shift to a mountaintop if you can shift to a mountaintop and then
(15:44) there are No screens there is no stress dtori. Now when you did the surgery you corrected the problem but after that there is screens there is some level of stress uh food intake pollution so many things so many factors that come in. Absolutely. >> So if that and this is like you know if with and age is also there.
(16:04) >> Yeah. So after doing the surgery it is extremely important you maintain it like if I'm going to use my laptop or my phone 2 hours a day our eyes which were not built to see the screen is now suddenly faced with artificial light how will it be preserved till we are old. >> So after the surgery in fact you have to do the eye exercises.
(16:28) In fact, we had a case from Bangalore who was going to go through a a retina surgery and we made him start the program two months before just saying that if you're going to go for a surgery also no problem you know >> make sure that your eye is also equipped to take that surgery you know like today if I go for a heart surgery the doctor is going to check if my blood pressure and diabetes and everything is okay there's no fluctuation >> parameters are when you go for a lasic surgery pre or post you have to Make sure that the organ as such is
(16:59) completely okay. It's relaxed. >> So priming the organ before you even get to the surgery. >> Yes. So that's the breathing and post like I said we have screens. We have no choice now. >> So but if I have to come to you with this condition you're telling me I can reverse this number. >> You will completely be glasses free because you will go back to being 6x6 vision in and see eyesight is something you will know more than me.
(17:22) So when people come for exercises I tell them you will know more >> because either you can see or you can't see I cannot tell for you if you can see so it's an experience that you >> I am coming to you Siddhi super >> I want to get off this because now the next step was go for another lasic and this time my dad >> he said now come what me I will not let you do it I said why you were the one who told me do it you in fact took me and I didn't even have any understanding of it at that point and I was just about 19 there was no social media we weren't
(17:52) like the Jenz's you know we were like very this obedient kids >> so I was like >> you made me do it that time now no suddenly you're saying no nothing doing he's like because I've read it somewhere it's not good the eye doctors themselves don't do lasic on their own eyes or on their children's eyes then why will you do it I said okay so I got lucky see it's as simple as weight loss surgery and you've traveled and everything you've put on the are you going to go put your body through that again. Are you going to get another
(18:23) weight loss? >> And I have beriatic patients who've come to me and they've put on the 50 kgs they lost with beriatric surgery and now they are saying now there's no option. I don't want to go through a surgery. No, no, you help me to lose that weight, >> you know. So yes, I totally understand this analogy is absolutely >> bang on because what you're saying is right. You won't again do it.
(18:43) And now I'm fearful. That time I had no fear. I I didn't have an understanding of it. I didn't know better. So ignorance was bliss then. >> But now I'm fearful. Now I'm like what if something goes wrong with my eyes? I can't take that chance. I rather wear my contacts or I wear my glasses and I'm happy. >> See the thing is in fact you know when people come to us and we have little tiny tots who come and tell their parents why you making us do these boring things that just get us and you know we don't want to do this and I tell
(19:08) parents and do whatever it takes okay whichever place is giving you a solution you know medically if you get a solution but understand you're doing the eye exercises not to correct the problem. You're just doing it to preserve it. It is as simple as that. >> Right now I want a little uh education from your end for our audience.
(19:26) I want to understand how is this excessive screen time or this artificial light, blue light that we are exposing ourselves to every day >> actually impacting our eye. What is happening inside our eyes? >> Okay. So see first we need to understand our eyes which are which we term as hunter eyes were not made for anything artificial >> but now we are surrounded by artificial light. Okay.
(19:49) Now in screens also there is much awareness that we can reduce the brightness and all. So if my eye is going to face that day in day out somewhere it is going to affect the parts of the eye inside. >> Yeah. >> You know and that will be like you get myopia you get the elongation of the eyeball. For some people it is as severe as floaters.
(20:09) For some people it is dryness which they can only correct with steroid eye drops. You know for uh little children it always starts with they excessively start itching the eyes. >> So there are a lot of things happening inside the eye and the outcome will always be that the functionality of the eye will drop.
(20:27) When I say functionality I mean >> distance vision near vision then there's periphery vision depth perception hand eye coordination focus. So slowly slowly with screens you will see these functions coming down >> you know. >> Okay. So these are the early warning signs if you may say >> the warning signs are very different in fact like how you mentioned for yourself only that you couldn't see the board.
(20:50) Yeah, >> you know, so that is one of them. You you'll see, you know, you'll make your eyes small or you'll tilt your head probably or itching of the eyes will happen. For some people it's watering, excess watering of the eyes. For some people it is, you know, double vision that is happening or headaches.
(21:05) But headaches, I always tell them don't confuse it with eye issues only because in summer season you're going to get headaches because of dehydration also, >> lack of nutrients. So >> yeah. These are mostly the signals that we see where redness in the eyes and all you know that which are like a warning sign that something is going to go down functionally in the eye.
(21:23) >> And this what we are talking about is known as digital eye strain. Right. Correct. >> Is that reversible completely? >> Yes. If you take care of your eyes and you do it with intention, you do the exercises and all definitely you can reverse it. >> How long does it take for these exercises? Because that's a very important question.
(21:45) So uh see it again depends from people to people but the first week when we start the exercises the exercises are very simple you're getting your eyes to get used to it a little bit of blinking a little bit of palming simple exercises second week onwards when you start feeling that okay there is some change happening and yeah 20 minutes a day 20 25 minutes a day not like hours and hours but simple things you know which I always tell them put it in your routine >> you know like we were taught no wash your hands before you eat for sit for
(22:13) your food. >> Yeah. >> So, you're going to use the screen, do this one minute exercise. >> And in your experience, how long does it take for somebody to reverse an eye condition? Like how many months, how many weeks? >> So again, it depends on the like if you genuinely ask me, there are people I've seen whose willpower and intention is so strong.
(22:35) If I tell them you're going to take a year or more, they somehow finish it in 6 months. >> Really? >> Yes. And there are some kids with a lesser eye power and it's not a big deal and they take a long time. >> In fact, I had a lady like that 80 years old who was on drops for many many I think 14 years to be precise and uh a severe complicated eye condition also to which I told her that you might definitely take 2 years or more but she was too good.
(23:03) I mean she finished it in 9 months or so >> like she was so diligent with her extremely >> with her practice eye exercises and everything else that you must have guided her >> it's not just that it is the faith >> the faith >> that plays such an important role like there are people who will come a okay you'll do this it'll work okay done and there are some who will keep second guessing aa does it work or they'll ask can you see can you really see that takes time >> that's so profound because in my practice also I tell my clients I said do this with utmost belief and trust in
(23:34) the process >> because if you're not trusting the process no matter what I'm giving you that internal healing will not happen because you know when we go to a doctor we sit outside >> for our turn to come >> and we start feeling better >> the fever goes down the cold cough gets better how it's not that the doctor has done anything on us >> it's clearly that we >> believed that across that door there is somebody who's going to heal us >> and that belief started changing a lot of things within us chemically.
(24:02) >> Yeah. >> And I tell that to my clients. I said, "Please, please trust this process because I may be giving you the best suggestions, >> but nothing will work if you don't have the faith in it." So you right now when you said that, it really hit the spot because as a coach, I totally understand and value this whole thing of having faith in the process.
(24:22) >> Yeah. Yeah. In fact, I feel the first thing when somebody comes for my program, I first tell them, you take your time, you understand what it is, what are your expectations, ask us everything, take your time. But the moment you step in, then you just completely surrender. And in fact, I have this saying which I always tell them when it comes to natural healing, healing comes to you.
(24:41) You don't go to the healing. >> You know, you have to just open arms and just surrender and then you don't know. >> Wow. Just have the faith. Do your work. >> Put in the the action. do the action >> and then surrender. >> Surrender. Yeah, >> that's so beautiful. >> Thank you. >> Also tell me the three biggest mistakes that we adults do when we are using screens like you know I'm sure we are doing a lot of mistakes while using screens.
(25:07) So what are those? >> So one is sitting for long hours without taking a break. >> I've seen people you know working in corporates it's for so many hours that they're sitting and sitting and the posture goes wrong. There's no break happening. M >> so first thing is it's utmost important that you take breaks get up walk a little bit drink a glass of water do some head movements take a breather look outside the window blink come back then you do that so first is that second is always being in air conditioned rooms >> that will cause dryness of the eyes to
(25:38) screen dryness and because of the AC rooms also and third is uh you know try to have some set rules like entertainment if I want to watch Netflix it's always going to be on the big Yeah. >> You know, >> not on the phone. >> Yeah. Like we if if you see if you travel, you know, in a train or bus, you'll always see people glued like this.
(25:57) >> Yeah. >> You know, and they're watching a movie on that. So have strict rules that you know, like a thumb rule. If it's entertainment, it's always going to be on the big screen. >> If it is workrelated, then okay, it's a desktop or a laptop. >> You know, a phone. If I need to make the call, I don't need to, you know, incensiently chat or something.
(26:15) Just put it on speaker, walk and talk. >> Yeah. Yeah. I don't need to look at the screen. You don't need to look at the screen or even you know that's something that uh I replaced is that you know have the habit of snoozing the alarm on the phone >> then just go back to your olden things of getting a normal alarm clock next to you look at that look at the room look outside the window open like don't get up and look at the screen >> that's causing a lot of issues.
(26:38) >> Yeah. >> So for adults definitely these things that need to be done you know breaks >> uh keep your thumb rule with your screens. Yeah. And >> are there any uh certain set of practices that we can do in that break? Like I've I've read about the 2020 rule and stuff like that. So is there something that you would recommend? >> Uh definitely.
(27:01) So blinking is one which is a very natural reflex for us like I said is not happening because of the air conditioned rooms and you know screen. So just take a break after half an hour or something. Get up, drink a glass of water or you know come back to your seat, blink a little bit, look up, change your gaze is what I say. Change your gaze, then start your work.
(27:20) In the second break, go take a breather. Look outside the window and not like something which you know it should look be like you're admiring what's happening outside the window looking at the intricate details. >> So if there is a tree then I'm looking at the shade, I'm looking at the cut of the tree, everything then come back again.
(27:38) You know the third thing is again then when you uh uh lie down you know like a shavasan or something just shut your eyes for 2 minutes or 3 minutes then again get back to work. So I always say this that you cannot walk 12 hours a day. No. So we sit. >> So how come when we wake up our eyes are up since 6:00 a.m. till 1000 p.m. So we need to have that little you know shutdown of the eyes too.
(27:57) >> Do you also recommend putting some rose water cotton pads or something on the eyes? >> I love rose cucumber. >> Definitely definitely especially in this season. M summer >> summer yeah you have to have to so end of the day when you're coming back home it has to be 5 minutes of me time go wash your face wash your hands splash some water you know lie down then take cotton dip it in rose water you know sometimes people feel you have to put the rose water inside but on the cotton pad and put it you know thunder thunder
(28:26) it's nice sometimes the cucumber slices also but for me rose water does the work it's amazing because that smell also stimulates your sensory system >> yes >> so it automatically uh you know makes you feel calmer. >> Yeah. And what about washing your eyes in that eye cup with rose water? >> No, definitely not with rose water.
(28:46) And not everybody can do the eye wash. >> Again, like I said, >> something that it's been in our uh you know culture for years and years. But I realized it very early on that everybody's body is very different and it can react differently. If somebody's body is extremely acidic, >> can have a reaction.
(29:06) So why put anything in the eye? >> If you want to do anything only the rose water, bahari that's okay. Do a little bit of blinking that's okay >> because the eye is a self-cleansing organ anyway, right? >> Yes. Yes. Yes. And but we do have eye wash that happens in our program but it's not for everyone. >> Okay. So it's again case specific.
(29:23) >> Case specific. Yeah. >> And you also spoke about posture. You repeatedly kept saying that posture which affects the vision. Now I want to understand that what kind of posture is affecting our vision and how. So posture in fact I would say is something that can really you know uh have an adverse effect on your eyes and if you see if you know say for example I'm an avid reader and I have a habit of reading like this you know with a tilt it can impact the eye if I'm watching TV and I'm slouching and watching TV or if I
(29:53) have my iPad and you know you see kids nowadays they're lying down or the iPad is up and you know everything that itself can cause. So posture definitely plays a role even when you're writing like some kids I've seen you know when they're studying and writing their entire head is down and they're writing >> you know you're pressing the eyes.
(30:10) >> So how are we supposed to watch TV? >> Sit I'm not saying sit straight like you know like a regimental situ but you can be a little relaxed but you know not have uh you know slouching or tilting a lot. And when it comes to the mobile and iPad I would say as But if you have to then if I'm using the be very conscious I look up and just blink >> and that because our parents are also doing that YouTube at my mother for that.
(30:42) >> Yeah. Like they lie down my mother sometimes has the phone in the hand and she goes off to sleep and I'm like what is happening? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Real and so then she's seeing and I'm like in the afternoon you know sometimes when they're just taking a nap like what is this? >> Yeah.
(30:59) In fact, I have a very u interesting example to give and this was something which the father observed. Okay. So, they had got a three and a half year old kid uh you know uh at our center for the program and the child had a squint. >> So, when I asked okay is it genetic and how did it happen and all and the father gave me a very good interesting thing.
(31:17) He told me that when the child like you know was one one and a half year old and the mother was breastfeeding the baby she had a habit of keeping the phone on at night. So she's breastfeeding the baby and phone and and it's dark. So he related that and told me so he he was trying to look at the screen. >> Yeah.
(31:41) The child was the child is tilting like this and is also looking at the screen. No >> trying to look. >> Yeah. trying to attracting him and that's how he got the screen. >> Yeah. And even if you see so many times you know your grandparents are looking at the screen or they're on their phone and you will see little children they try to tilt like this they'll move it that itself causing so much of eye strain.
(31:59) >> So you can correct squints also with >> definitely with exercises. Yes. >> Wow. >> Definitely. >> Wish I knew this when I was younger. >> Yeah. >> But I know this. >> You can come now. Yeah. >> Yes. Exactly. It's never too late. >> Come now. Yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. >> Okay, Siddhi, now coming to a very important topic, which is children's eye health.
(32:20) >> I see a lot of kids today with glasses. I was a kid when I got glasses, but I was 12. I'm seeing kids who are three and four and five with glasses and it breaks my heart to see that. >> You know, they have to wear that string so that the glasses don't fall off while it while they're playing. It's so sad.
(32:36) It is >> tell me is it that children's eyes are more susceptible to damage than adults or is it that uh you know when we seeing kids with such numbers at such an early age what is exactly happening here so see one is there's a lot of awareness happening about this because >> you know Australia like they have banned screens or in China since I think 1960s or something they have eye exercises in the curriculum.
(33:02) >> Wow. like it's in the curriculum and that is honestly our goal but children it's as simple as their foundation years no they are still growing so the eye is still in those growing years so till the age of 8 and 8 and a half your eye is still growing or there is screen happening of course it will do a damage and you know the eye won't grow properly it'll be like a stunted growth >> you know and uh I mean we see kids who start screen at the age of one >> yeah of course Because parents are feeding kids with screens.
(33:34) >> Yeah. And they usually say that >> you know and really I have seen I mean in the diaper age that I've seen that kids are in front of the screens. >> Yeah. >> So it's very heartbreaking because I always ask him one question. If uh you know a child is not able to walk won't you do what it takes to strengthen the leg? >> Yeah.
(33:59) So if the child is not able to see do what it takes to you know strengthen the eye but we have not been taught that you know we've been taught that the only solution for a weak eye is glasses >> no one ever has taught us that listen you can do something to reverse it >> see because now when I was in school one or two kids in the entire foyer probably had glasses in fact I remember one of my friends just chashma And uh the mother went like carrot juice, coriander juice, carrot juice, coriander juice because it was considered a visual handicap was considered a big thing
(34:34) before >> which is not now. Now it's the new normal but think about it in 10 years time 20 years time what is going to happen with screens with AI and all coming up with you know the careers changing now with children are getting into coding and all how are they going to manage so you know like I always say correction correction so AI or screens time my kid who has a high number at the age of five how will they maintain until 50.
(35:07) >> Yeah, exactly. Just I'm very curious. Does it also lead to early blindness? >> Have you seen any such cases? >> Does it lead I wouldn't say the word blindness but definitely complicated disorders. Definitely we have 21 22 year olds who come in and it's not as simple as like postcoid I say postco it's not as simple as a child the child just has or the you know 21 year old just has a number and is wearing glasses.
(35:34) It's they've done surgeries also by that age. >> Yeah. >> You know, so it's I mean it's it's very dangerous for children. In fact, >> I always urge parents and appeal them. You have to do it. There's no choice and that is it. So what are the early warning signs that parents should be aware of when they see their child struggling with screens or you know maybe even even if they're not struggling just to be cautious that the children are not getting towards a number.
(36:03) So first is it's as easy as do you see your child squinting they are watching the TV >> or when they are in the school are they going ahead and copying check if their notebooks are okay are they constantly rubbing the eyes is there water coming from the eyes is there redness happening in the eyes you know and one of the simplest things that I tell parents to do is sometimes now we don't come to know if which eye is getting bad because when I wake up every day I wake up with both my eyes open.
(36:35) >> Yeah. >> Now when you know they get us reports where one eye has a very high eye number or a very high eye issue >> they say but how will you come to know now you don't wake up with like Monday I I'll just open my right eye Tuesday I'll just open my left eye. So for children the easiest thing like a game you have to do is get them to read car numbers.
(36:56) >> Get them to read holdings individual eyes shut. Okay ch add the car number and tell me you know shut the right eye and see that holding color what is it >> that you know every day in your routine >> you can check like this you know simplest thing is to just get them to read what is in the routine. >> If you're watching a movie with them okay chal read the synopsis of the Netflix movie.
(37:18) Yeah, >> as simple as that. So when you start doing that, you know, play sports with them, understand the hand eye coordination >> like are they able to hit all the swings when they're playing a racket sport or are they missing some? >> That's the way to check. >> And at what age should parents start becoming conscious about the child's eye health? See if as a parent you have never given a screen, if your nutrition is okay, if your child has an excellent lifestyle habit of sleeping at a particular time, napping in the
(37:48) afternoon, you know, eating all the good food, then okay, cho worry after four or five. >> But if all this is happening before, then you start worrying when the baby is small. And have you seen cases where children are not exposed to so much screen like there are conscious parents now who are not >> giving kids screen before the age of 2 three four but still those kids have a number then what would you attribute it to? So see sometimes it's also genetics.
(38:14) Genetics play a role and sometimes it also can be food habits. No >> food habits or simply the child is not ready to play outdoors. If the child is only doing say closer focus activities like >> like Lego >> Lego you know or your puzzles and is just deep into it with the posture going for a toss not blinking.
(38:38) >> So you know a lot of factors which contribute to eye health going down. >> So do you mean to say that lack of outdoor activities can also impact a child's eye health not just the screens? >> 100%. >> 100%. A simple thing like just going and jumping >> will make sure that your eyes are okay >> or they're growing properly because you're outdoors.
(39:01) Okay, there's blood gushing in the entire body, >> right? >> And for better clarity, for excellent vision, we want the blood circulation to be good. >> Like how we say sitting is a new smoking. Why are we saying that? >> You know, is because the sedentary lifestyle is causing a little bit of you know lesser movement in the body which is causing issues.
(39:22) So same with the eye also outdoor play like you know I have a parent who's been with us I mean she's one of those extremely committed parents who's finished the program with us seven years back >> but she still keeps sending her kids as a lifestyle >> she looks at it like a gymnastic classic like chalok come so I remember when co hit and when everything went online she literally shifted to her farmhouse and she asked me what do I do I just let them play outdoors >> and that's what they did and nothing happened in spite of being uh you know
(39:50) having online school. There was no deteration to those kids' eyesight >> because it was balanced. >> Yeah. Because they were just playing outdoors. How many kids do we see playing outdoors now? >> I mean, we grew up playing outdoors. We didn't want to come back home. >> Yeah.
(40:05) Yeah. I mean, do you ever remember your mom telling you, "Blink your eyes." >> No, because 12 hours you're just playing outside. Your gaze is changing, you know, you're looking up. >> And we had more nature also when we were younger. More we were surrounded by more nature. The buildings weren't as tall so we could see the trees.
(40:23) Now everything that you see is concrete around you. Where are the trees? >> You can barely see the trees between the buildings. Now >> earlier there were few buildings and more trees around everywhere. Right. So now >> I think just the infrastructure change also is creating a lot of problem. >> A simple thing I ask parents when they get kids, how many times do you look up at the sky? >> I remember when I used to play badminton the shuttlecock used to get stuck in the tree and we used to throw a boot or something up. followers
(40:51) exercises you know so it's that simple basically just moving it in different directions basically which we are not doing now we just stuck to one >> I mean live in like urban houses >> where is the wall it's just 8 ft away >> it's not like sprawling houses where up wow you can see the nature >> we don't have a or kis here not anymore we never had them in >> so that's so restricted no for children also so like that's all you're seeing is the wall which is some that's True.
(41:19) So what are some daily habits if you have to list them that the kids are doing these days that is affecting their eyesight? >> So one is uh if you first is don't give them screens. It's okay. They're not going to miss out on the world at all. So as many years as you can pull them without screens great.
(41:38) If you have to give a screen okay because we are working parents everything give a TV. >> TV and not a iPad or phone. >> No no the smaller screens is a problem. As a thumb rule, you can watch TV. >> Take breaks in between. Okay? Don't constantly gaze without blinking. >> Have outdoor play. If there is nobody to play, then put them in classes where they are uh you know doing some sport activities.
(42:02) >> Yeah. >> Check on the posture, how they read, how they write. Correct them at a young age. You know, it's like they say know that kids see what parents are doing. >> Yeah. Yeah, >> we have children who come to a you know center and they say why aren't you telling dad he's playing games you know why is he not doing >> I mean kids follow by example not by advice >> so simple things which you can do is motivate them to go play outdoors and you know when they start young believe me after some years they themselves stay
(42:30) away from the screen we have 5 year olds who tell us that okay mama I'm not allowed to eat this or I'm not allowed to wash the screen and they don't want to do it because at a very young age they are role why they have to do it. >> So Siddhi also tell me uh a lot of kids today have ADHD, autism, neurode divergence.
(42:48) Do these eye exercises have an impact on their focus, concentration? Whether they have neurode divergence or not, kids are very distracted today because there's so much of external stimulation. >> What impact does eye exercises have on their brain health and you know just the way they >> focus? >> So one is we don't see with our eyes, we see with our brain.
(43:09) So the eye and the brain they are connected. When I exercise the eye, I'm also making sure that my brain is getting the exercise. How? Through the optic nerve. >> So with some exercises will stimulate the eyesight is also stimulating the optic nerve and having an impact on the brain. >> In fact, I do get parents who tell me, you know, with ADHD kids, I see them, you know, during our checkups that suddenly they get a little calmer.
(43:33) Of course, it's because of other therapies also like OT and all. >> Yeah. Uh but we have parents who tell us that the focus is getting better >> because if your hand eye coordination is going to get better like we had somebody who just a month or two back said that that my child played football very well >> you know and it's nothing but high hand eye coordination you know >> with your eyes with your exercises your focus is getting better.
(43:56) So when you deal with tasks at hand your focus your hand eye coordination everything is going to get better. So yeah your eye and the brain they work beautifully together. So yeah, >> superb. >> Okay. And if you have to tell our parents some three simple exercises that every child can start doing from today, >> what are those? Can you like show us? >> Okay.
(44:20) So first is the blinking because I said that there is lack of outdoor play. Blinking is not as easy as it used to be like before. So just three four times a day while they're studying in in front of the screen. Get them look up and blink five six times. Look outside the window for this that you can see. Observe the intricate detail.
(44:39) Blink five six times. Blinking does wonders. Okay. In fact, for some cases, it will stop watering of the eye also. >> Okay. >> Second is uh what I mentioned summer season is coming get them to do the rose water. It is very important >> because by any chance if they are dehydrated here, okay, because of less water intake or something, it will strain the eye.
(45:00) >> Okay. So rose water also after school before going to bed they can do it. >> Third is a very simple exercise which I'm going to demonstrate >> is called palming. >> Again it's been done in our culture for years and years is where you rub your hands. Okay you rub rub rub for 10 15 seconds whatever you get them to be warm.
(45:21) Sometimes parents ask me that is it okay my child doesn't rub and I put my hands on the child's eyes. But everybody's body heat is different. So it's better that you do it. You teach the child. Yeah, you teach the child you know. So you rub your hands and this portion the palm portion slightly just keep it lightly on your eyes like this. >> And now see when I'm doing this one is people do like this.
(45:43) Can you see my shoulders? >> Shrug. Yeah. So just relax. That's it. Do not press the eye. Do not put fingers on the eye. Just this palm that you have put on your eye like this. And you're breathing. You're focusing on your breaths. nothing like you know like you have to do so many counts or something put some music talk to your child while you're doing palming do it with them ask them how was your day in school >> and get them to do this palming exercise >> you'll see the entire nervous system relaxes the eye will relax and after
(46:15) that they'll study well >> okay and how many times in a day can they do that >> three four times minimum >> just for a minute or so >> yeah yeah of course >> so it has to be like a thumb rule okay screen do your palming M >> okay you finished studying okay go lie down put cotton and rose water on your eyes >> in between your screen time or your studies or something go blink and come it has to be in the routine >> it should not be like something where oh they're making me do this >> you know for children at least
(46:43) >> understood and yeah these are just such simple ways to kind of support your eye health nothing too extra or too difficult >> yeah and if you have to tell me any other thing that you feel a child does apart from screens that is affecting their eyes in their day-to-day life that parents need to be aware of >> is sugar intake.
(47:03) >> Oh, I mean I mean really really we need to cut down on the sugar intake. See our observation is always the child is thin, you know, he's playing, he's active, he's studying well, everything is okay, but a lot of sugar intake can structurally damage your eyes. M >> and I tell them just see of course you want to celebrate you want to have it for taste but rose >> it cannot be an everyday thing >> kids are addicted to sugar these days >> yeah and get them off this packaged and preserved food go back to what we were
(47:37) 30 40 years back but this is it this is the food you're going to get >> you know eat fruits whatever nature has given but keep them away from sugar because in my experience believe me sugar has a very damaging impact on the eyes >> so for children especially just keep them away from that. >> Si tell me we spoke about lifestyle, we spoke about uh screens.
(48:00) Does mental and emotional stress or fatigue also have an impact on our vision? >> Definitely in fact uh with kids what I normally observe is if there is any fear >> okay they might not read that well. >> Oh >> yeah. In fact when we check their vision and the center and when we they are so worried there is so much fear that instantly they will not read and that's when you know we tell them okay relax just there's no checkup there's nothing going to happen chill you know so emotions definitely play a role in fact I have another uh you know person who
(48:36) comes to my center who's 78 >> and uh has a complicated eye disorder and what the daughter has always observed is that any event which is a big event for him like when he shut down his business >> you know when his parent passed away it has an impact on his eyes >> the redness increases you know suddenly there is some retina issue that's a complicated issue so some retina issue will crop up so emotions definitely play a role when it comes to your eyesight definitely do you also work with affirmations or something for the kids
(49:13) you know because We >> she always says that you know you're fearful to look at the future that's why you have vision problems. Do you also believe >> for affirmations for adults? Yes. Not for children because for children it's always easy as simple as screens. >> But for adults yes definitely. >> Yeah. >> You know you got to make them believe that you can correct your problem.
(49:33) In fact, so many times we have like crying sessions that happen at the center where we you know tell them could just cry it out whatever it is tell us and then with ease you do the program do the exercises >> so it has a emotions and eyesight is connected >> and now coming to nutrition I'm a nutritionist myself and I understand how these antioxidants lutein zeazanthin and lot of colorful fruits and vegetables are extremely important for the eyes but if you have to tell us from your experience what are the specific foods
(50:04) or dietary habits you recommend your clients be it kids or adults >> in terms of nutrition to improve their eyesight. >> So see one is fruits fruits fruits fruits fruits we you know we always tell for children they have to have fruits they have to have colorful fruits they have to have citric fruits but always on an empty stomach >> first second is please don't mix your cooked food with your fruits >> so sometimes dinner and after that you're eating a big bowl of fruits.
(50:31) No, no, no. Third is like you mentioned antioxidants. You know what is it doing? It's just getting the oxygenated blood to go to the eyes which is going to give you a clarity. So things like you know a beetroot juice, a tomato, carrot, beetroot juice, a be red carrot season to nothing but just one big glass of carrot juice. Just give it to them.
(50:51) a carrot and coriander juice, you know, and you see, you know, in fact, the carrot thing really worked for me because a year or two back, I had my uh, you know, I had a carrot salad which I tasted for the first time in my house and it was done very differently and I kind of got obsessed with it and I was every day for 2 months or 3 months was eating that carrot salad every day >> and I literally see because I'm going to use my screens every day.
(51:17) So I was also facing some level of eye strain but my clarity really went up. >> It really did. >> Yeah. Like the blurring and you know all of that gets better. >> It just gets crystal clear in spite of you being in front of the screen. That was my experience. >> Wow. Your personal experience. >> Yeah. My personal experience. Yeah.
(51:34) >> So nutrition >> I think. So basically going back to the basics eating more wholesome foods. Stay away your colors in your diet is very important. >> And for eye health especially stay away from the sugar. stay away from the packaged and preserved and >> I think that's for every issue in the body. >> Sugar just causes inflammation and damages all your organs and cells.
(51:54) So absolutely >> and also now I want to I'm so intrigued to know about the one lakh cases that you've worked with and sort of reversed and corrected. give us a synopsis of a few cases that are you know really close to your heart which you felt like wow this seems like an impossible feat to achieve but yeah it was still reversed and the condition got better so tell me some of those cases >> so I think uh there are so many cases is very difficult to choose and genuinely uh maybe what's the highest number that you reversed I mean it's it's like you
(52:29) know it it it's not about the number it's about the disorder that we have reversed like >> okay >> uh we've had cases where uh an 80year-old who's not able to read because of a complicated eye issue >> and uh you know it's a big win for us when we check their eyes and they're like oh wow I can see that >> wow >> and it's literally literally like that >> in fact somebody in my own family also who's doing the program with me and he was very sure he's not going to uh correct his one But uh and had also joined the program
(53:05) only because one >> but as in when he started doing the program he was shocked that oh wow I can see from the left eye in fact did call me up and say that oh it's 700 p.m. when I'm driving my car and taking my calls >> because of one I working only he had stopped driving >> in the evening >> you know >> and uh yeah lots and lots of cases in fact with children also with very high eye numbers that they come >> uh you know we see that they generally keep getting better I mean it gets very difficult to pinpoint a case because I'm
(53:42) kind of forgetting it now but uh yeah >> basically you've seen reversal with all these numbers and cases in your day-to-day life you're seeing reversals >> definitely and you know it is how much faith you have like there will be people who will come and tell us can you believe it my child can see this or can you believe it I can do this now >> you know so must be very gratifying no at the end of the day >> it is it is it is definitely and it is just getting my faith stronger and stronger in naturopathy and I really
(54:12) make sometimes feel that yeah we were the country who was doing that >> yeah it originated from originated here. >> This is the land of >> you know what we call naturopathy everything. Yes. >> You know like parents our grandparents already knew how to fix the issue. It's just we've forgotten the way >> they forgotten. That's true.
(54:31) That's true. In so many ways I think every aspect of health >> there's an answer in nature for everything. >> In fact you know I would like to mention a case. It was a recent case. It just comes to my head. one is uh so this 38-year-old guy joined the program for a very simple eye number and I told him problem and 2 3 months you'll be good >> now when he came later to start the program he got me a report saying that he's been suggested a surgery >> and I was like okay someone's back you are as I mean you know it was just a
(55:06) small number how can it deteriorate so fast >> so what are you doing wrong so I asked him and we inquired about his food, about his lifestyle. He was like, "Nay, it's not that bad." And you know, he was going to join the Navy and all. He was like everything is okay, disciplined and all.
(55:24) And it struck to the father again that on the phone with the lights shut. >> And within 3 months, it was just supposed to be a simple eye number issue that we were to solve. It became a complicated eye issue that we are solving now. >> So are you trying to tell me that we should not watch TV also with the lights off? No, I mean I >> Oh my god, that's a very big thing.
(55:46) It's a big revelation because we all switch off the lights and I like watching TV with lights off because I'm like >> it's just relaxing. But >> see, once in a while you go for a movie just for enjoyment sake. >> No, absolutely not. >> So your lights have to be on when you're watching the TV. >> It's going to strain your eyes.
(56:04) Your eyes putting that much work to look at that screen with that bright light, you know. Okay, I want to also understand do these blue light glasses and the you know the glasses that come for screens that you can actually wear >> do they help? See I have had I mean my research in this is not a lot to comment on this that it doesn't help >> but I've had people who've done it and they've still come with very big issues.
(56:32) M >> so we had a a a gentleman who came in who said that we've I have tried these eye drops where the number goes down and his number did go down but he said it's not made any difference to my vision so that's what my program is all about you know it's about vision and eye power >> so if the number goes down doesn't your vision get better >> no not necessarily >> oh what I oh my god >> it's like it's like if your weight goes down can you 100% say your stamina is going to get better >> no >> that's what my program is Because the
(57:02) vision weakness happens because of the number going up. >> Yes. But not necessarily when the number goes down that your vision is also going to get better. >> So you may still not be able to see while the number is still down. >> So in fact we have parents who say number the numbers come on and they're very happy and I ask them one question.
(57:19) Can your child see from the last bench of the school? No. >> No. Then forget it. Your program is >> basically you correct vision. >> Yeah. Function. Functionality. >> We said it together. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And I always give the strength, stamina, endurance example because today if you see a farmer, are they going to go and check a listen my BMI is so much and this is my weight and all and that's why I'm healthy or it's just strength and stamina.
(57:48) I'm putting 40 kgs on my head and I'm walking and I'm working in the field. >> So when it comes to eyesight, it's that only. M h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m h m. >> So yeah, one of their case was that where they came in and they said my number has definitely gone down but I don't see any difference in my >> Now that was a revelation to not watch TV with lights off.
(58:06) >> Okay, I'm going to stop doing that. >> I think that also tells me you watch a lot of TV. >> I don't. >> Oh, >> I don't have so much time to watch TV. >> But whenever I do, >> it's a relaxing time. So, >> so I think I uh for the last 5 years in co I didn't have time to watch TV because I was studying functional medicine then >> it's only in the last few months that I've started watching TV again because I finished my functional medicine and I get some time when I'm you know going to sleep before that I like to unwind and
(58:31) that I watch very specific shows I'm not like watching everything that's on Netflix if I like a show I'll probably watch it finish it then I for months I may not watch something else >> but yeah I uh that little bit of whatever I watch also So these days I will stop doing that. >> So see that's what we say no like if you want your eye health to be okay till you're 80 or 90 go to the mountaintop and if you can't do then just integrate the eye exercises.
(58:56) >> Yeah but I sit a lot on the computer because I have work on the computer. So do you also I and I use dim lights when I'm sitting on the computer. So do you >> do you mean to tell me I should have bright lights when I'm sitting? >> Yeah. The light should come from behind. >> Okay.
(59:11) The back light LED but should be brighter. >> Yes definitely. >> Oh my god. Okay, got it. So there would be a lot of people like me who would be doing that. >> I hope so. >> I mean know who would be doing the wrong thing. Hope they start doing the right thing after listening to this. >> Oh my god. So tell me five lifestyle habits that we all must follow for better vision if you have to sum it up.
(59:34) >> Okay. Five lifestyle habits. So one is please start doing your eye exercises as simple as a palming or taking a break. It's important >> will work in the longer run when you have screens because screens are not going to go anywhere. >> Second is sleep well. >> Yeah. >> You know you cannot sleep extremely late and wake up very late and feel that okay my eye is going to work better. No.
(59:58) >> Take catnaps. >> Yeah. >> If possible you know when you come back home after a day's work keep that 5 minutes just for calming yourself down calming the nervous system. be what is happening is with children or with adults we are back to back doing something on the other >> you know and that is putting a strain on the brain which is putting the strain on the eye >> because you're constantly looking at something you're constantly doing something so take a break so again lie down in shavasan put the rose water on
(1:00:27) your eyes do some deep breathing you know the sensory stimulation will also help the eye >> so sleep is there food of course I mean first thing I would say is food food that is the way you heal I mean you know better because you know as a nutritionist you'll know >> so food yeah and simple thumb rules see I'm not going to tell you that just bar all the screens it's not possible >> in today's but have thumb rules entertainment okay I'm going to watch it on the big screen >> if it is workrelated then okay I have a
(1:00:58) desktop or a laptop if I have to use the phone then I'll do tricks or whatever it takes to just be on speaker keep it far or sometimes even facetime you know just keep it far and talk >> so if we can just get a control and a grip on these simple habits, you know, then >> we'll be good. >> Yeah, we'll be good.
(1:01:16) >> Or a simple thing like even outdoor activity, that's a must. >> Either a walk or sit outside and look outside your window for 20 minutes a day. >> But just stay outdoors sometimes. Don't always be in air condition. Now coming to the next segment which is a myth and fact round. So I'm going to ask you a few statements and you just have to say whether it's myth or fact and if it's a myth then what's the fact? >> Okay.
(1:01:40) So, children today blink far less while using screens than they do while reading or playing outdoors. >> Fact. >> Vision problems often develop slowly and silently before parents notice them. >> Fact. >> Outdoor sunlight exposure plays a significant role in protecting children from myopia. >> Fact. >> Okay. And what time should they expose their eyes to? >> Just whenever like you go in the morning, you play don't >> not directly like >> Yeah.
(1:02:08) Not directly but just like go and play outdoors. That's it. H many children today experience eye strain long before they need glasses. Fact. Uh most people only think about eye health after vision starts deteriorating. Fact. Okay. The eyes have no connection to the brain and the nervous system. Myth. Yeah, you did say that. Wearing glasses automatically weakens the eyes over time.
(1:02:39) Case to kiss. >> Okay, it's case to kiss. Some people who wear glasses don't always face the deterioration because their lifestyle habits are very good. >> They have nutrition which is very good. They sleep very well. They don't wear glasses all day every day. They have a habit of just taking it off. >> So not not everybody.
(1:02:58) >> But should we do that? Like I have glasses. So I'm I'm wearing glasses all day. Can I just remove it sometime? No, but then you'll face eye straight because you'll not be able to see. >> No, not when I'm doing something intricate or something very close. But when I'm just probably looking outside the window and you know >> Yeah.
(1:03:14) So the thumb rule is always like uh if you're comfortable, if you can see something at that distance, you're not doing really anything, you're not reading, then take the glasses off. >> Okay. Eye fatigue is harmless and always temporary >> myth. That's is a beginning to >> Yeah. That's a signal that it's deteriorating.
(1:03:34) M vision deterioration in children is unavoidable in a digital world myth. Yeah, you did say and you gave us the tips how to improve that. If a child can see clearly, it means their eyes are completely healthy. >> But then what about hand eye coordination? What about color vision? What about night vision? >> So it's a myth, right? >> Yeah.
(1:03:54) >> They could have normal vision but their eyes may not be as healthy. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. So that also does exist. Coexist. Yeah, because like I said know the individual eye like I'm seeing everything but I don't know which eye is >> good or bad. >> Understood. >> Awesome. So now we are done with the myth and fact and coming to the last round which is the rapid fire round where I'm going to ask you a few >> personal questions.
(1:04:19) We'll keep it fun and rapid. All right. Morning sunlight or evening sunset? >> Morning sunlight. Mountains or beaches? Both. But I'm a beach person, so beaches. One daily ritual you never skip. >> Um, gratituder. >> Okay. I practice that every day. Okay. A book that influenced you deeply. A book that influenced me deeply.
(1:04:47) There are many books. I mean, not health uh related also, but I'm a person who loves history a lot. >> Okay. So uh there was a beautiful book on the prince of Punjab and I was really like I read it twice. I saw the movie also. So >> wow. Yeah. >> What's it called? >> It slipped my mind honestly but it's about the prince of Punjab and how the kohhinur went and it's about that.
(1:05:11) >> Okay. Your favorite way to relax your eyes. >> Just doing the rose water. I can't do it enough. I I I already guessed it because you really endorsed that like too many times when we spoke. >> Daytime productivity or nighttime creativity? >> Daytime productivity always. >> Okay. One wellness habit you swear by.
(1:05:31) >> I uh like to get some form of physical exercise done and that it's not necessarily an exercise but I love anger yoga. I love swimming. >> So I try to put that in. >> Nice. One myth about eyesight you hear all the time >> that it can't be fixed. >> We have older people also coming and says that they go for checkups and they are told but it can be fixed.
(1:05:58) >> Definitely my oldest is 93. >> Wow. >> It's amazing. Perfect eyesight or perfect sleep? >> Without sleep you can't have perfect eyesight. >> So both. >> Both. >> Lovely Siddhi. It was such a pleasure chatting with you today and trust me, I've had so many revelations from this episode. >> I'm taking back so much knowledge about eye health and I'm definitely going to see you because I want to work on my eye health and my vision >> which has been compromised since the age of 12.
(1:06:30) And now that I know I have somebody who can help me, >> I'm coming to you soon. >> So you always say it's like a physiootherapy session or an exercise session. If you're not going to accept any other functions, you know, degenerating or deteriorating, why are we accepting that our eyes are deteriorating and nothing can be done? >> Yeah.
(1:06:50) Why are we accepting it as our fate when we can change it? >> Yes. >> And if a 93 year old can, then we definitely can. So, >> let's take our eye health >> and the charge of it in our own hands and do something with the help of Siddhi >> and her team. So thank you so much Siddhi for doing this and I've really had a great time and uh I hope this episode helps more and more people >> you know in fact I'm very grateful that you took this topic to talk about because parents really need to know that they need to work on their children's eyes because it's just getting bad to
(1:07:21) worse now. >> Yeah. And it is very heartbreaking when a child will know like we've had cases where they will not do skydiving >> because they're wearing glasses or they are not selected in the football team >> or you know like we've had two cases where a football is hit and they've hit the glass and the eye has been >> cut you know.
(1:07:42) So it's very important that in today's u uh digital age that parents please take this on and do the exercises. It's very simple. >> Thank you. Thank you once again and I will definitely uh make sure that more and more people listen to this episode and help the their loved ones with their eye health. >> Oh, superb. Thank you so much.
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