today we're going to be fact checking chatGPT an AI software program it's available on the
internet and we're going to be asking it Eye Health specific questions and really kind of
seeing how much health knowledge about the eyes the software program really knows as well as just
how accurate this information may or may not be so first off we're going to ask it one of the
most frequent questions I ever get regarding the eyes and that is. How to improve your eyesight?
so there are several things you can do to improve your eyesight one get regular eye
exams okay awesome I'm loving this already eating a diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables can
help promote Good Eye Health specifically foods that are high in vitamin a c and e as well as
omega-3 fatty acids can be particularly beneficial that that's actually really this bit about diet in
fact makes me very happy at something I'm always talking to my patients about at every regular exam
even people who have like almost optimal Eye Health I still talk about the importance of
healthy diet the retina in the back of the eye is extremely metabolically active and so having
a lot of antioxidants vitamin a c and e and in a lot of studies do report that as being
good in preventing eye health issues especially later on in your lifetime and then omega-3 fatty
acids omega-3 especially a component of Omega-3 called DHA plays it counts for about 70 percent
of certain photoreceptor cells within the back of the eye and so that does play a role and again is
overall found to be pretty healthy for the eyes otherwise exercising regularly protecting the eyes
from sunlight from UV light radiation taking a frequent break from a computer screen if you spend
a lot of time looking at your computer screen or smartphone screen kind of like you're probably
doing right now it says to take frequent breaks to rest your eyes avoid smoking very good that
mentioned this and then practice eye exercises that's a little interesting it says there are
various eye exercises that can improve your eye muscle strength and flexibility which can lead to
better Vision I I so the eye exercises bit there's a lot of people are always asking about that maybe
we'll ask it here in just a moment eye exercises are involved more in what is called vision therapy
orthoptic training Vision Rehabilitation and this can help with a lot of binocular vision issues eye
coordination and eye teaming a lot of professional sports athletes in fact do uh Vision Sports vision
therapy to coordinate better improve their coordination and their just perceptive ability
however yeah let's ask it a little bit more if you can do eye muscle exercises to reverse the
need for glasses that'll let's see what it thinks about that but I love at the beginning it says
it's important to note well these strategies can maintain Good Eye Health they may not necessarily
improve eyesight in all cases and then if you have a specific Condition it's important to
talk to your doctor automatically I'm really happy with this I think this is probably one
of the best answers uh I could even probably come up with and say you know the eye exercises bit is
a little bit leaning in there I think we need a little bit more clarification but I'd probably
give this like an eight to nine you know maybe even as high as like a 9.5 uh out of 10 for a
good answer let's go into, Can you use I exercise sizes to improve vision? while eye exercises can
help improve eye muscle strength and flexibility there is limited scientific evidence to suggest
that they can improve overall Vision some people claim that eye exercises can help with conditions
such as nearsightedness and as far as sightedness and astigmatism but there is not enough research
to support these claims so right away that first paragraph makes me very happy and that's very true
amongst the scientific Community there just isn't enough evidence to suggest that doing a
regular eye muscle exercises and there's a lot of different people who preach this and you can find
them online even here on YouTube unfortunately a lot of people's reports are anecdotal and there's
just not enough published research evidence to really show a cause and effect that you're really
reducing power of the eye changing the axial length there's just nothing really anything
quite going on like that again there is really good evidence to show that doing eye exercises can
and improve certain conditions like convergence insufficiency people who can't bring their eyes
together to cross in order to hold a steady object and read clearly up close or perhaps
accommodative insufficiency and those are often tied pretty close together however that doesn't
necessarily again change the shape of the eyeball the axial length of the eyeball and necessarily
improving or reducing the need for glasses or anything like that that being said certain eye
exercises can be helpful in alleviating eye strain and improving eye Comfort especially if you spend
a lot of time looking at the computer smartphone screens that goes on to give a few examples such
as blinking blinking makes sense right you your eyes are drying out if you're staring at
a computer all day you want to Blink to get more tears flowing focusing it's really just relaxing
your eye muscles looking at a far away distance object something up close going back and forth and
then it talks about palming and eye rotations now these are muscle exercises that have been
historically kind of claimed and used for a long long time they may promote some relaxation of just
movement getting fluids moving around the eyes and in the eyelids but there really isn't any
therapeutic benefit probably not going to hurt but probably isn't going to do anything other
than just help relaxation otherwise so again overall I agree with chat gpt's statement here
I think it's pretty smart to comment that there just isn't enough research to support a lot of
these claims so just because of the palming and eye rotations thing I'd probably give it more like
a seven maybe 7.5 you know lost a couple points because the palming and eye rotation oh how about
this uh how about this question I get this one a lot and that is do glasses make your eyes worse
right away no wearing glasses will not make your eyes worse in fact wearing glasses can
improve your vision and prevent eye strain and fatigue says it's important to note while glasses
can improve Vision they may not be permanent solution some vision problems such as pressed
by open may require updated prescriptions over time A lot of people do have this feeling or
thought that if they start wearing glasses even like over-the-counter reading glasses for people
who are presbyopic and over the age of 45 they're worried that they're going to become more and more
dependent on glasses I think an important thing to kind of explain is there's a difference between
adult eyes versus growing still developing eyes like with young children so if you're an adult
then know there's really no growth or change of the eye like the axial length of the eye the shape
of the eye because of wearing glasses any sort of dependency you feel like oh well I'm starting to
wear glasses now now I feel like can't go without them I can't see without them at all that's more
of a perceptual change neurologically that you are just used to seeing so much sharper with your
glasses that now you're taking them off and you're like comparing between with the glasses do without
and you're like wow it's such a big difference your brain your mind is perceiving and and really
prioritizing thinking hey my vision with the glasses is so much better I'd rather just see with
that but physiologically there is really no change developing within the retina or the back of the
eye because of the power of those glasses now the one little caveat is with young developing eyes
like with young children there is some evidence that wearing standard glasses lenses especially
if they're out of date or they're the wrong prescription can push and accelerate the need
for growing the axial length of the eye and so if the light from the glasses is focused further
behind the retina that may have some sort of a push factor for causing myopia or nearsightedness
to develop faster but they've also done research and shown that children who are under corrected
who are purposely given less strong of glasses than what would be ideal those children also end
up developing myopia at a faster rate compared to children who are given glasses of the ideal exact
prescription and they've followed them for many years and over time and continually found that for
children who are at risk of progressive myopia or nearsightedness they should even fact be followed
and have updated glasses every six months or so just to keep the focus of the light hitting the
retinal structure in an ideal location rather than over correcting them or under correcting
them because again over and under correction can potentially push and influence the elongation of
the eye in a growing susceptible population so as a general response from this AI software I
actually think that's probably a the safest best answer you can have however again digging deeper
into the research there's a little bit of caveats here and there I'd probably give this yeah that
six seven you know points out of ten um just not being as scientifically in depth but it is it's
overall a good answer all right now let's ask one of uh one of the more popular questions I
still get and I've done a video on this but how to remove dark circles dark circles under the
eyes are common cosmetic concern that may make you look tired or older and here are some tips it says
one get enough sleep when you don't get enough sleep causes a lot more inflammation throughout
your body it causes blood vessel dilation and underneath your eyes here you do have a lot
more blood vessels and so then they'll pee appear kind of a darker blue hue and just overall appear
darker cold compresses plain cold compress does say a chilled tea bag or cold spoon can reduce
puffiness and inflammation around the eyes the old tea bag thing that I mean you can use a cold
tea bag the whole idea of having antioxidants penetrating into your eyelids maybe there's some
truth to that but I've never seen a true study looking into that of course staying hydrated I
think overall that's good for your skin and just everything with your whole systemic body it says
use of eye cream now eye cream I'm a little bit cautious about because there's a lot of weird
ingredients that get put into Cosmetics especially here in the United States dates we don't have very
good regulation around it so you always have to be cautious of what you're really putting on your
skin but it does say ingredients such as Vitamin C caffeine and hyaluronic acid I know that vitamin C
and hyaluronic acid are good for the skin I'm not specifically a dermatologist but then the caffeine
component that is used in a lot of these under eye bag Dark Circle creams because the caffeine
does what to your blood vessels it causes them to constrict and get smaller and again that will
help kind of hide the dark shadowy effect of the blood vessels underneath the skin wearing
sunscreen good because sun damage does cause early aging around the eyes and in the skin
around the eyes so definitely wearing sunscreen and avoiding sun exposure wearing sunglasses wide
room hats these things are good and then says to adjust your diet as diet rich and vitamins and
nutrients can help improve your skin health and I've even noticed this when I switched to eating
a lot more Whole Food plants in my diet my skin not only cleared up like my cosmetic less having
nipples and blemishes but the color of my skin started to improve and become a little bit more
of a darker orange kind of olive oil color rather than just being a pale white guy who sits in the
dark all day but I do like that it talks about persistent dark circles it's important to consult
a dermatologist or other healthcare provider for an accurate diagnosis and treatment it's true
that if you do talk to most eye doctors about dark circles under eye bags most Eye Care Professionals
that's not really a huge deal in the world of eye care we're so concerned about blindness about
vision loss uh eyesight we're not so worried about the Cosmetic appearance of the eye but this is a
growing thing because a lot of dermatologists that I've talked to they don't like the eyes they'll
kind of avoid touching the eyes unless they are specifically an oculoplastic surgeon that's a
whole unique specialty in the field of eye care now there is of course a difference between dark
circles and under eye bags so let's ask it how to get rid of eye bags it looks like largely a lot of
the kind of the same answers because dark circles under eye bags if you have under eye bags it'll
appear like you also have dark circles but largely the same stuff it does also say reduce salt intake
too much salt can cause fluid retention in your tissues and make eye bags look worse so just
avoiding heavily processed foods that's that's where a lot of people's salt intake comes from
it's not from them adding salt from a salt shaker on the table it's really calm comes from all of
just the highly processed food just not looking at food labels I do also really love that it says
at the bottom here it's important to note that some people may be more prone to eye bags due to
genetics age or other factors same thing honestly I would say goes for under like dark circles under
the eyes some people just have darker pigment under their eyes due to their skin and genetics
but overall I think for just looking at a quick wrist of how to get rid of eye bags it's actually
fairly good and accurate first off I do want to say I'm honestly pretty impressed by what chat
GPT this AI software air is generating it'll be interesting to see as more information more people
ask questions and it gets fine-tuned kind of how much wealth of knowledge it's really going to grow
and start incorporating getting better results I would love to pass some questions off to you guys
first have you tried chat GPT yet what are your thoughts about this AI technology and what it's
able to do and then of course any other further questions that you'd like to more in-depth answers
to from like an eye care professional like myself who's living and breathing this world
there's certainly a lot of questions I'm going to continue asking it and seeing what comes up
and maybe making future videos to kind of further explain some of these answers hey otherwise thank
you so much for watching if you did enjoy this video hit that like button for us and let us
know otherwise Dr Joseph Allen here from Dr Eye Health keep an eye on it we'll see in the next one
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