Your eyes have a lens that has a retina which acts like the film in the camera. So light passes into your eye, it gets focused down to your retina. The nerves on the retina collate together and send it back through the optic nerve up to your brain where the brain interprets the image. Top few causes of losing sight are cataracts, which is a clouding of the lens.
75% of adult Americans have wonky vision of some kind, your host included. Longtime pal and real-life eye surgeon, Dr. Reid Wainess answers all the questions that you never bring up during appointments. He and Alie chat about how eyes are just little cameras in your skull, glasses vs. contacts, Lasik, why we cry, some boggling ER stories, how marijuana effects eyeballs, floaters, cataracts, eye color, dogs in goggles and more. Also: what happens if you choke under pressure and pick the wrong options in an eye exam? HOW SCREWED ARE YOU?
Dr. Reid Wainess's practice
If you're in LA and and want Dr. Wainess to be your eye doc: 1-800-898-2020
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