How Eye Exams Can Give Insights into Nutrient Deficiencies
Episode description
Neda Gioia OD, CNS, FOWNS, CFMP, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge to discuss the connection between nutrient deficiencies and eye health.
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Theme music: "Upbeat Party" by Scott Holmes via freemusicarchive.org and "Carefree" by Kevin Mcleod via incompetech.com.
About the Expert
Neda Gioia OD, CNS, FOWNS, CFMP, is an integrative optometrist and functional medicine practitioner, but she is also a patient. She is on a mission to make integrative medicine methodologies available to other practitioners — helping them provide their patients with this knowledge. She is the founder of the cold start optometry and nutrition practice named Integrative Vision. Dr. Gioia exemplifies the need to include nutrition in a classic medical setting by blending her advanced knowledge of functional nutrition and medicine into a primary optometric practice. As President of the Ocular Wellness and Nutrition Society, Dr. Gioia is at the forefront of driving functional medicine adoption in traditional practices, industry, health insurance and beyond.