04 Why Seeing Fast is Important

What the heck is a magnocellular neuron you say? Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. will tell us why is it important to attention, movement, reading, and understanding where we are in space. Furthermore, the magnocellular visual pathway also plays a role in staying out of being in a perpetual state of fight or flight. This visual pathway will be explained in easy to understand detail and will be differentiated from the parvocellular or what visual pathway.

Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S.

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Dr. Stephey: If our two eyes are not working together well as a fast synchronized team, our internal mapquest continues to be off. It's consistently inconsistent with our ability to judge time and space. Those that don't feel well-grounded, those that have some measure of anxiety, oftentimes it starts in the visual system. If you can't move, look and listen in a fast, accurate, effortless, sustainable, age appropriate, meaningful way, you're in a world of hurt. There's a whole world in vision and how it affects brain function that no one's ever shared with you. 20/20 is perceived as a holy grail of going to the eye doctor. Well, I'm here to change that paradigm. 

Tim Edwards: This is the Move Look & Listen podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey. I'm Tim Edwards, the founder of the Inbound Podcasting Network, and a patient of Dr. Doug Stephey. He located in Covina, California. Episode four today, Dr. Stephey. We're talking about seeing fast. Never heard that phrase ever. And I've said that a lot in the last few episodes. I've never heard that before. Going to visit various optometrists throughout the last 25 years or so when I first started wearing glasses. It seems like everything that you bring up, every time we get together, there's something new and enlightening regarding our vision and our brain and how our eyes work together. Seeing fast. Tell us what that means. 

Dr. Stephey: Yeah. What the heck? Seeing fast. What's that all about? Well, certainly come into the optometrist. 20/20 is perceived as the holy grail of going to the eye doctor, right? If you could walk out seeing 20/20, it's all good. 

Dr. Stephey: Well, I'm here to change that paradigm. Fundamentally, the world generally is made up of prey, animals and predators. And prey animals have eyes on either side of their head, like horses and rabbits and predators have eyes closely spaced on their face. 

Tim Edwards: Like us. 

Dr. Stephey: Like us. And the reason that's t