October 3, 2025 • 31 mins
In this episode of The Eye-Q Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Elise Brisco—an integrative optometrist, clinical homeopath, and international model. We explore natural strategies to keep your eyes vibrant, the role of homeopathy in everyday eye care, and the empowering lessons Dr. Brisco has learned blending health, beauty, and science.
Dr. Brisco is an integrative optometrist and certified clinical homeopath. She practices in a multi-disciplinary wellness group in Los Angeles. She is the founder of NearSight, for which she holds a patent. Dr. Brisco is a fitness enthusiast who loves to box and is a wellness content creator. She is the chief medical advisor for Natural Ophthalmics and serves as a key opinion leader for Lumenis.
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Number one misconception is thatyour eyes are going to last
forever because you wake up, youopen your eyes and people don't
understand that the eyes age like the rest of the body.
So you can see your skin, your face, your body getting older,
but you really can't see your eyes getting older.
That there's so many things I always tell patients, don't wait
until you get sick. Don't wait until you can't see.
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Start early. And there are some preventive
things that you can do because overtime we talked about the
aging around the eyes, but how about the aging in the eyes with
cataracts, macular degeneration,glaucoma, floaters?
It's so important on a daily basis to protect your eyes from
sun, wearing a good pair of sunglasses, not to stare into
the sun because the sun accelerates aging of tissue with
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glaucoma. I'm going to give a shout out
for an annual eye exam. Welcome to the IQ Podcast.
I'm Doctor Ronnie Bannock here to help you boost your IQ with
powerful insights that connect your eyes, your brain, and your
whole body Wellness. Welcome to the Eye Health
Summit. I'm your host, Doctor Ronnie
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Bannick, and today I'm so excited to introduce my special
guest, Doctor Elise Briscoe. Doctor Briscoe is truly a
Unicorn in the eye Care World. She began her career as an
integrative optometrist. She's also a clinical homeopath.
And now she is an international model.
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So we are so fortunate to have with us Doctor Elise Briscoe.
Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for having me.
Your mission about holistic eye care has always been so close to
me and resonates with me. Absolutely.
I think we think along the same lines, and that's why I'm so
excited to have you here to share your journey and your
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experiences with our audience and to hopefully help inspire
them to live more holistic and healthier lives.
But let's begin with where you started off because where you
started off is so different fromwhere you're at in it right now.
What were you doing in the initial stages of your career?
For 34 years, I ran an integrative Wellness practice,
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multidisciplinary, so we had osteopath, Chinese medicine,
acupuncture, optometry, of course, we even had plastic
surgery, preventive cardiology. I dedicated my whole career to
helping people see better and live healthier lives, but
certainly using lifestyle as their medicine, not just writing
prescriptions or doing procedures.
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But then what happened is I was asked to start judging beauty
contests and I'm I've always been known as the nerdy and the
sporty girl that never the pretty girl.
I'm a Bowie mom. I coached AYA soccer and Little
League and they said we want role models for the girls.
So I did it and I fell in love with the pageant community
because they're all about lifting up the community for
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worthy causes. Then two years after that, I was
asked to compete for Miss California.
And I was like, there's no way I'm running ragged.
A single mom. But I was the founder of a
health tech company called Nearsight.
I actually have two patents, andI invented something to replace
reading glasses. Here's one of my patents.
And they said, will you win justby stepping on stage?
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And I went ahead and did it. It was a terrifying experience
for me. I had to learn to walk in high
heels this high, and I've alwaysjust worn tennis shoes.
Much to my surprise, I was crowned and I was the oldest
ever crowned in a major beauty pageant.
That led to my first modeling assignment to do the lookbook
and the catalog for Tirani Couture.
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And I started getting fan mail from around the world, people
saying, because I'm eating healthy again, I'm doing yoga,
I'm dating again, I'm dancing. And I thought, wow, I can reach
more people than I can in the exam room where I'm seeing 20 to
30 patients a day. The same reason you're doing
your podcast and social media isit's so powerful and you can get
your message to people and it people.
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I realized that especially beingin the fashion and beauty
industry is that's really key toget patients to do what's good
for them is they need to see that there is an exterior
benefit that that they can appreciate and see right away.
I really have to applaud you. You took this huge leap of
faith, right? Most of us were doctors,
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healthcare providers. We're stuck in our routine.
We see our patients, we go to our office, we take care of our
patients, and then we go home and spend time with our family.
But what you did is just completely off the beaten track.
And again, I really, I admire you for taking that huge chance
getting on that pageant stage. I wanted to ask you also a
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little bit about, you said you had a practice that was not just
focused in optometry, but on complementary aspects to health,
whether it's acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine,
homeopathy is also one of your strong points.
How did you get into that? Like where did that arise from?
What came for us? Was it optometry or some of
these other health approaches? It's optometry first and I have
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an autoimmune disease. My mother has some serious
health problems and western medicine kept failing us.
Fun too. They kept giving him stronger
antibiotics and steroids and we met an integrative pediatrician
who introduced us to homeopathy.I knew nothing about homeopathy.
My family are physicians, surgeons.
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We don't learn about that in optometry school and I saw it
help my son without side effects.
We took him off all medications.He didn't need surgery anymore
and I was like all these little white pills and I I had to go
back to school to become a clinical homeopath.
And then I realized how much I could help my patients at a
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deeper level addressing the underlying cause of their health
problems rather than and I'm integrated.
So I'm not a or BI still write prescription.
We have an IPLI do refer out forsurgery everything but I it was
much more powerful. It was less expensive.
For our audience who may not be so familiar with homeopathy,
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could you describe the concepts behind it and some of the
strategies that you use as a clinical homeopath?
Yeah, So homeopathy enhances your own body's healing ability.
It stimulates the immune system to do a better job.
So pharmaceuticals are valuable because if you're really sick
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and you're you have symptomatic,it will decrease the symptoms so
that your body can have a chanceto catch up and heal.
But if you read the when you go to the pharmacy and you read
your prescription, they'll say it does not treat the problem,
it treats the symptoms. And they even say that.
But homeopathy actually goes to what is the underlying cause of
this? Why are you having an ear
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infection? Why are you having allergies?
It could be a gluten intolerance.
It can be an allergy that's leading to the ear infection.
You don't need an antibiotic because you're getting the
infection. You need to treat the underlying
allergy that's creating the fluid in the ears etc.
Same thing with the eyes. What is the underlying issue?
Is it, you can't just give someone an anti-inflammatory, A
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steroid or a antibiotic because yes, the symptoms will go away
temporarily, but you still have that underlying reason that your
tear glands are not producing tears or you have the
inflammation. So that's what homeopathy does.
It uses a really small amount ofa substance that triggers a
healing response in the body. So it's safer because you're not
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giving chemicals or pharmaceuticals it you can use
it on infants and babies, on pregnant mothers.
It's far less expensive and it treats the underlying problem.
It may take longer because you're getting down to the root,
but I truly believe in it. And I always gave patients an
option. Say I was treating an allergic
conjunctivitis, which is itchy red eyes.
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I'd say, hey, I can write you a prescription.
I can give you homeopathic medicine, or we can just use
self-care like cold compress andeye washes.
So a lot of patients would say, Oh my gosh, I'm so grateful
because my doctor does not believe in alternative care or
complementary care at all. And they were grateful that I
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gave them options. So I think it's for any
physicians who are listening outthere, it's good to give your
patients options. Most of the physicians that I
know actually use natural and complementary medicine at home,
but for some reason they don't apply that in the process.
I hope that hearing your story, more people will be open, at
least their eyes will be open tothe possibilities that there are
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other strategies out there and there are other approaches to
health that don't have to be completely founded in
pharmaceuticals and or surgeries.
So I'm in a very similar kind ofstate of state of mind where
I've integrated my training and functional medicine with
ophthalmology site. Can you give us an example,
Doctor Briscoe? And you mentioned allergies, but
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what may be an example of a natural substance that our body
makes that can help a particulareye issue?
With homeopathy, it's usually not substances that the body
makes, but substances that we know will trigger that healing
response. So irritate the body at a level
that's not going to cause the disease, but it'll get the
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body's immune system, which is super powerful problem.
For instance, we are being bombarded every day by bacteria
and viruses, but the reason we don't get sick is because your
immune system is always fightingfor you.
And you know that your immune system's shut off is because
when a person's passed away, then their body starts
decomposing because you no longer have that system.
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Examples are for dry eyes. Instead of using just a tear
replacement, you want to treat everything from opening the tear
glands with heated compresses and infrared my mask to tear
stimulation drops rather than tear replacement drops.
So you want to send a message tothe brain saying hey, produce
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more tears and L And here's a good example of homeopathy too,
is instead of knocking down the door with a machine gun or
hammers, we use the key in that key knows exactly what to do to
heal, help your body heal itselfbecause your immune system is
much stronger than any medicine could tell it to.
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Do wow. So it's really a matter of
modulating the immune system through my almost like micro
dosing like tiny subclinical amounts of substances that
primes your immune system to help to basically kick start
your own healing. Is that kind of a way to
describe it? Yeah, yeah.
And I use homeopathy as part of a toolbox in the office.
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We'll use very sophisticated diagnostic tools.
If a patient had dry eyes. Back to that because I was just
reading today that over 80% of people who use computers and are
on digital devices have suffer from dry eyes because you don't
blink as much. Your blink weight is down by 80%
because the pixels on the screenare electronically refreshing.
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So it's really moving. The picture of your computer
screen, you'll see all the lineson it's moving.
So your eyes, your brain slows down your eye blinking so that
you're not blinking while it's moving.
So the tier glands just end up getting clogged up.
So I would use a digital imagingto actually see if there's
clogged, clogged tier glands. Have any of them atrophied or
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been damaged? We will send home self-care and
then I'll use in the office IPL frequency so we can actually use
light and use use the radio frequency to heat up and treat
inflammation. So it's a combination
everything, but it's not a one man show.
Like like I would prescribe fishoils to patients that would do,
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they would do lid massages and instead of giving really harsh
lid scrubs or phones that have detergents in it, I would use
something like, I don't know if you've heard of zocchilar, but
they use okra based ingredient that is actually more powerful
than Anna antibacterials. And this was in the NIH that I
was reading their publication onit.
So I'll use things like that to use as natural as possible.
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But again, I'm still use pharmaceuticals, write
prescriptions every day. I'm no longer in practice now
because I'm modeling around the world, but it's a combination of
everything and cleaning the bestout of all these different
knowledge bases to help patients.
Love it all. It's so much in tune with my
philosophy as well. It's not one or the other, but
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it's taking the best of both worlds and using them together.
And every patient is different, right?
So not every patient is getting the same regimen.
It's based off of what may be going on in their own system
that's causing the issue. So this has been such a
fascinating discussion thus far.Doctor Briscoe, I've always
wondered about homeopathy. I've always seen there are
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certain drops that used to be onthe market in the US, I believe
that they're not currently on the market anymore that were
homeopathic eye drops and they had ingredients like eye bright
and then number of other ingredients that I can't even
pronounce. But I think believe there's
certain herbal ingredients. Are there specific herbs or
other botanicals that you use aswell?
Or you have used as well for certain eye issues?
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Expand a little bit on the eyebrow because you can still
get that in some drops and you can get it also as homeopathic
medicine because that is actually an anti-inflammatory.
And I don't know if you knew this, but it is a mass cell
inhibitors, meaning that it getsit inhibits the cells that would
release histamine, which makes your eyes cheery, itchy and red.
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It actually stopped from happening.
So I bright or Euphrasia is a really great homeopathic
medicine that you can use and most of these do not require
prescription, but you still really should work with a
homeopathic Dr. or an integrative optometrist or
ophthalmologist to direct you. It's so much better than self
prescribing because there's so much misinformation on the
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Internet. But I like eye bright for eye
fatigue. I love Ruda grav, Ruta grav
violence. I just call it ruta grav.
It actually it's an analgesic. It's antibacterial, anti
flammatory, and it helps decrease the strain of the eye,
the tiny little eye ligaments around your eyes because that
spends, what is it like 9-10 hours.
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Teams, I think it's almost 11 atthis point.
It's crazy. It's mind boggling how much time
we spend on screens. Yeah, so tiring too.
When I was in practice, I saw patients four days a week, and I
did research and wrote one day aweek.
And the day that I was in front of the computer most of the day
was more tiring for me than the days I was seeing patients
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thousands of times across the page.
And they're always focusing. It's a lot of work.
Even though you're sitting still.
Your eyes, please treat your eyes well.
Figure out work horses for you. Absolutely.
So if somebody wanted to perhapstry some of these homeopathic
strategies, is there like a daily routine that you recommend
or is it you use the products asneeded?
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How does it work? The typical dosage would be 5
pellets under your tongue. Let it melt.
That'll be two to three times a day.
As you start to see improvement,you decrease that.
Most places like Whole Foods carry a 6C and A30C.
Unless it's neurological, they're pretty interchangeable.
If it's neurological, like it's related to nerve pain or
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something like that, you'd want to use the higher dosage or if
you're sensitive to it. But again, that it's easier said
than done it it's so much betterunder the guidance of a clinical
homeopath or an integrative holistic Doctor Who knows how to
use that. But then you can't just use that
in isolation if you have eye strain and fatigue.
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We talked about using the hot compresses with infrared mask.
Use massage to open up and push out, open up to your to your
glands and then taking breaks every 20 minutes.
Look away for 20 seconds, 20 feet away and let the eyes
relapse. It's like you don't go to the
gym and just keep working out for 8 hours straight.
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We're working our eyes out for 8hours straight.
It's. Unnatural, right?
We're doing our lifestyle these days in modern technology.
Yeah. I love all those tips.
You've given us so much amazing information, Doctor Briscoe.
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Help Summit. We're chatting with Doctor Elise
Frisco, who is truly a Renaissance woman, optometrist,
homeopath, and now internationalmodel.
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Let's talk now about beauty because I know that is one of
your your strengths. You were like such a role model
out there on the runway promoting beauty for not just
eye health, but overall health. So what are some of the beauty
strategies you use yourself in your daily routine?
Could you share that? I'm happy to because I combine
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the knowledge that I have as an integrative optometrist and
clinical homeopath now with my experience as a model.
And I'm realizing, thank God I've lived a clean, healthy life
because I would not be able to model after 34 years of being in
practice if I had not LED such ahealthy life.
And I just want to show here's one of my.
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Yeah. Yeah, and I don't have my
Harper's Bazaar, but I was in Harper's Bazaar USA last month
and I was just in Cosmopolitan. So it starts with sleeping.
You can't cheat sleep. You definitely need to sleep.
Hydration is super important. And I'm, I'm talking about
beauty from the inside out because a lot of people say just
what creams do I use or what makeup do I use?
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The beauty routine starts way before I get on the runway with
the skin care, with the self-care.
So hydration, I drink a lot of water.
I love coconut water and I also take collagen because we start
to lose collagen after a while. So I put this in my smoothies
every day. This one happens to be by saying
these guys don't sponsor me at all.
I just love it. And then when I'm on the road, I
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don't have it's harder for me tomake my smoothie.
So I just take little gummies. It's my little treat.
But and then fish oil, fish oil.Oh my gosh, my dermatologist is
what recommended that. And I'm taking Carlson fish oil
literally for 13 years. I don't dare stop it, but so
that's what I take internally. I sleep, I meditate, I work out
because working out not only is good for your body, oxygen and
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blood circulation to your eyes. When I wake up in the morning, I
drink 2 glasses of water immediately because I want to
jump start static drainage system.
So front. Load your water Absolutely.
Load my water, I want it. And then I do facial yoga
because that. Yeah.
Could you demonstrate, Could youshow us like when the exercises
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you do? When I first was introduced to
it, I was like, what is this? But now that I've done the
research on it, I've actually seen because I don't have any
fillers or anything. And if you guys do the math,
being in practice in 34 years, I've been around for a while, is
facial yoga can increase the muscle tone just like when
you're working out your body, soyou have more firmness on the
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muscles supporting the eyes or the face, the jaw, neck to lift
it up more. It also in stimulates collagen
production. I don't really understand how
that works, but I've cited so many references that say that.
And then you also jumps, you also get the lymphatic drainage
system going because you're moving the toxins just very
lightly because the lymph nodes are just.
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Lymph system is just right underneath the skin.
You don't have to do a deep massage.
So something simple that you cando at home that I do almost
every morning when I wake up with my water stretch and I want
to get sunlight right away. So I open up the window, get
that sunlight going so my body knows it's time to wake up
because I don't drink coffee. Then this is super simple.
I'll take my 2 little fingers, put them on either side of my
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nose and then sorry, I haven't done my nails.
And then I just smooth out on both sides.
I make a light circle and out and I'm moving up and this is
helping to drain any. If you have some puffiness under
eye bags when you wake up, you do that about 15 seconds.
Do it three times and then it's even better if then you end up
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taking it down to your lymph nodes because there's some lymph
nodes right in front of your ears and behind your ears, and
if you take it down there, you're actually moving through
your body. Is it mechanically stimulating
the flow of lymph and helping todetoxify?
Along those lines, so I've done the smoothing, then the next
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thing I'm going to do is actually work on the muscle.
So I'll do the V here that I washere before.
And then without moving my fingers, I'm giving enough
resistance. I'm closing my eyes and try this
doc because you'll feel it that you're giving this resistance
and that's actually strengthen the muscles without squinching
or anything like that. Blink normally.
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Is that what you're doing or you're doing a fourth?
Hard blink while you're holding your fingers like.
I can definitely feel that, yeah.
There's so many facial yoga. I'm just showing the eyes since
I'm an optometrist. And then the last one is the big
eyes. So now you do this and you open
your eyes a little bit and you can feel again against the eyes.
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So three simple things with the facial yoga that you can do that
really helps. Another question I get asked a
lot too is oh, and by the way, before I do that, I usually put
on some eye cream because I don't want to have stretch Marks
and pull along along the eyes and everything I do is well
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thought out. I vetted everything out.
So I use something called herbalface Food and they have an eye
cream. And the reason I choose this is
it's 100% botanical. There's not one artificial
ingredient in this. And so I use feeds my skin and
what's interesting is when I wasdoing pageants, I hadn't seen my
makeup artist for a couple months when I started using
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herbal face food and then she saw me.
She said what did you do with your skin?
Because I'm an open book, you can see how my skin, I have no
pores. It's super smooth.
And it was because it was reallynoticeable difference with that.
So I used that and then I use the power of stem cells because
stem cells actually go to damaged cells and help to repair
it. And there is a physician in
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Beverly Hills, Dr. Nathan Newman, who has invented this
line where he uses plant stem cells to increase collagen
elastin that increases firmness so that when you pull your skin,
it jumps back rather than being really creepy.
I use, it's called them the StemCompany and I use their give you
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exactly what it is, the regenerative skin, regenerative
serum and then the night and theday formula.
We'll include all of those linksthat Doctor Briscoe just
mentioned, so if anyone wants toconsider trying any of the
products you mentioned, you can easily access those links.
So Doctor Briscoe, I know you are super busy flying around the
world spreading your message of holistic health and what people
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can do. Have you come across any myth or
misconception about aging and vision that you'd love to dispel
today? Anything people always say to
you that you say no, that's justnot true.
Well, the number one misconception is that your eyes
are going to last forever because you wake up, you open
your eyes, and people don't understand that the eyes age
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like the rest of the body. So you can see your skin, your
face, your body getting older, but you really can't see your
eyes getting older. But there's so many.
I always tell patients, don't wait until you get sick.
Don't wait until you can't see. Start early and there's some
preventive things that you can do because overtime we talked
about the aging around the eyes,but how about the aging in the
eyes with cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma,
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floaters? It's so important on a daily
basis to protect your eyes from sun wearing a good pair of
sunglasses, not to stare into the sun because the sun
accelerates aging of tissue. With glaucoma, I'm going to give
a shout out for an annual eye exam.
Glaucoma has no symptoms. That's the weird thing about the
eyes. There's really no pain or
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warning sign. I have had dinner with a friend
last night who had a retinal detachment and he said I didn't
know something was wrong with myeyes until there was a shadow in
front of my eyes. One more day he could have
gotten blind and I'm not over exaggerating.
So it is essential because you can't tell yourself if you have
a problem or not to get that annual eye exam.
Like you don't wait until you have a terrible toothache.
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You go the doctor, the dentist, you go twice a year get your
teeth cleaned. Your eyes are not replaceable.
You can get dentures, implants for you could not get an implant
for your eyes. So please, your eyes checked.
Out. I always tell my patients,
there's so many health checkups that we get.
We go see our annual, see our primary care doctor for annual
checkups, get our blood work done.
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You see the dentist twice a year.
We go for our mammograms and colonoscopies.
But what about our vision? Like, it's just not something
that people recognize as a priority, but it needs to be.
It really should be on your checklist of things that you do
proactively to prevent issues going forward.
So important. Thank you for bringing that up.
Doctor Briscoe No. Absolutely.
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I still get my eyes checked. Yeah, and I just wet myself.
Yes. Put that on your calendar.
Everyone, please, today, if you haven't been in the past year to
go see your eye doctor, put it on your calendar.
For children, 9 out of 10 schoolage children have never had an
there is and one out of five kids have a visually related
learning problem, like a tracking problem, a focusing
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problem, and you're not going tocatch it unless you test for it.
I've had ophthalmologists who bring their children in to see
me because I did a post doctor fellowship in children's vision.
So they bring their children in for eye exams with me and then
they're horrified that their child has a vision problem
because they're not. Because they never checked their
own child's eyes. You can't tell if you're seeing
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correctly or not because you're unable to compare how you see
compared to someone else. If someone doesn't respond to
you when you're talking to them,they may have a hearing problem.
I've had kids come in who have diplopia or double vision who
did not know that was abnormal till I tested them.
Found out they have a lazy eye or stray business and the
parents like why didn't you evertell me that you see double and
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the kid will say I I thought everyone saw like this think
it's normal so please have your kids eyes checked too because it
may be interfering with their academic performance, their
ability to catch a ball. I was the team optometrist for
the Anaheim Ducks and the NHL, and I was able to use sports
enhancement training to actuallyhelp them see faster, more
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accurately guide their hands so that they can.
You have so many important messages, Doctor Briscoe, but I
think the most important thing Ihope listeners will take away
from this part of our discussionis have an eye doctor on your
healthcare team. Yes, you have multiple different
professionals, healthcare providers, but your eye doctor
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should be an essential member ofyour healthcare team at any
stage of life. Not just for older individuals,
but younger people too. Especially given the amount of
time we spend on screens these days, all kinds of things can
happen. I want to encourage people too,
that it's never too early to start taking care of yourself
and it's never too late to starteither.
You're. So true.
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Don't wait another 10 years. Doctor Briscoe, this has been an
enlightening conversation. I'm so glad we had this
discussion. I learned about homeopathy.
You answered so many questions that I've had floating around in
my mind. And glad to hear some of those
products are still available. If anyone wanted to learn more
from you, perhaps follow you on social media, how could they
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find you? Handle is Hollywood eyes because
I practiced in Hollywood. So Hollywood UI ES on Instagram,
on TikTok it's Hollywood dot eyes and on YouTube it's
Hollywood eyes. Doctor Lee's Briscoe and just DM
me. Let me know that you saw me on
Doctor Ronnie's show and let's start a conversation because I
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health really should be your lifestyle and your medicine is
the strongest way you can take care of yourself better than
waiting till you're sick and taking drugs to Let's use the
way you live so that you can live better.
And I also, the reason I do thisis I want to help people embrace
aging rather than fear it. It's bound to happen to all of
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us, right? Like, we can't get away from it,
so we might as well embrace it and continue to function as best
we can. I think a lot of people
associate getting older with losing of their ability to do
certain things, but that does not have to be the case.
And you're the perfect example of someone who's been able to do
that. Yeah, and I'm sure you've had
the same thing. I've had so many patients come
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into my office who are 40, whichI consider a baby, and say,
Doctor Briscoe, I'm old and I'm thinking you're barely at your
halfway mark. Are you going to feel sorry for
yourself because you're old for the next half of your life?
You're just starting to get to the good part.
Yeah, I love that. So important.
It's about mindset, right? Part of it is what we do, but
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part of it is also having a mindset that is positive, that's
helpful, vibrant, and it will reflect from the inside out.
As you said, under your control that you can prevent and even
reverse health problems. And it doesn't cost much if you
incorporate that into how you eat, moving every day, sleeping,
meditating, using good products.Yeah.
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So much for sharing your incredible insights with us
today on the ihealth Summit. Dr. Briscoe, I will have all of
your links included for the products and also your social
media links. If anyone wanted to reach out to
you, they'll be right under for the interview so you can easily
access them. But again, thank you for joining
us, Doctor Brisca, and thank youall for being here today on the
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ihealth Summit and I will see you all very soon.
Thank you for tuning in to the IQ Podcast.
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nutrition and lifestyle. Until next time, keep your
vision clear and your IQ sharp.
Number one misconception is thatyour eyes are going to last
forever because you wake up, youopen your eyes and people don't
understand that the eyes age like the rest of the body.
So you can see your skin, your face, your body getting older,
but you really can't see your eyes getting older.
That there's so many things I always tell patients, don't wait
until you get sick. Don't wait until you can't see.
(00:20):
Start early. And there are some preventive
things that you can do because overtime we talked about the
aging around the eyes, but how about the aging in the eyes with
cataracts, macular degeneration,glaucoma, floaters?
It's so important on a daily basis to protect your eyes from
sun, wearing a good pair of sunglasses, not to stare into
the sun because the sun accelerates aging of tissue with
(00:43):
glaucoma. I'm going to give a shout out
for an annual eye exam. Welcome to the IQ Podcast.
I'm Doctor Ronnie Bannock here to help you boost your IQ with
powerful insights that connect your eyes, your brain, and your
whole body Wellness. Welcome to the Eye Health
Summit. I'm your host, Doctor Ronnie
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Bannick, and today I'm so excited to introduce my special
guest, Doctor Elise Briscoe. Doctor Briscoe is truly a
Unicorn in the eye Care World. She began her career as an
integrative optometrist. She's also a clinical homeopath.
And now she is an international model.
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So we are so fortunate to have with us Doctor Elise Briscoe.
Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for having me.
Your mission about holistic eye care has always been so close to
me and resonates with me. Absolutely.
I think we think along the same lines, and that's why I'm so
excited to have you here to share your journey and your
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experiences with our audience and to hopefully help inspire
them to live more holistic and healthier lives.
But let's begin with where you started off because where you
started off is so different fromwhere you're at in it right now.
What were you doing in the initial stages of your career?
For 34 years, I ran an integrative Wellness practice,
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multidisciplinary, so we had osteopath, Chinese medicine,
acupuncture, optometry, of course, we even had plastic
surgery, preventive cardiology. I dedicated my whole career to
helping people see better and live healthier lives, but
certainly using lifestyle as their medicine, not just writing
prescriptions or doing procedures.
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But then what happened is I was asked to start judging beauty
contests and I'm I've always been known as the nerdy and the
sporty girl that never the pretty girl.
I'm a Bowie mom. I coached AYA soccer and Little
League and they said we want role models for the girls.
So I did it and I fell in love with the pageant community
because they're all about lifting up the community for
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worthy causes. Then two years after that, I was
asked to compete for Miss California.
And I was like, there's no way I'm running ragged.
A single mom. But I was the founder of a
health tech company called Nearsight.
I actually have two patents, andI invented something to replace
reading glasses. Here's one of my patents.
And they said, will you win justby stepping on stage?
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And I went ahead and did it. It was a terrifying experience
for me. I had to learn to walk in high
heels this high, and I've alwaysjust worn tennis shoes.
Much to my surprise, I was crowned and I was the oldest
ever crowned in a major beauty pageant.
That led to my first modeling assignment to do the lookbook
and the catalog for Tirani Couture.
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And I started getting fan mail from around the world, people
saying, because I'm eating healthy again, I'm doing yoga,
I'm dating again, I'm dancing. And I thought, wow, I can reach
more people than I can in the exam room where I'm seeing 20 to
30 patients a day. The same reason you're doing
your podcast and social media isit's so powerful and you can get
your message to people and it people.
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I realized that especially beingin the fashion and beauty
industry is that's really key toget patients to do what's good
for them is they need to see that there is an exterior
benefit that that they can appreciate and see right away.
I really have to applaud you. You took this huge leap of
faith, right? Most of us were doctors,
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healthcare providers. We're stuck in our routine.
We see our patients, we go to our office, we take care of our
patients, and then we go home and spend time with our family.
But what you did is just completely off the beaten track.
And again, I really, I admire you for taking that huge chance
getting on that pageant stage. I wanted to ask you also a
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little bit about, you said you had a practice that was not just
focused in optometry, but on complementary aspects to health,
whether it's acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine,
homeopathy is also one of your strong points.
How did you get into that? Like where did that arise from?
What came for us? Was it optometry or some of
these other health approaches? It's optometry first and I have
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an autoimmune disease. My mother has some serious
health problems and western medicine kept failing us.
Fun too. They kept giving him stronger
antibiotics and steroids and we met an integrative pediatrician
who introduced us to homeopathy.I knew nothing about homeopathy.
My family are physicians, surgeons.
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We don't learn about that in optometry school and I saw it
help my son without side effects.
We took him off all medications.He didn't need surgery anymore
and I was like all these little white pills and I I had to go
back to school to become a clinical homeopath.
And then I realized how much I could help my patients at a
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deeper level addressing the underlying cause of their health
problems rather than and I'm integrated.
So I'm not a or BI still write prescription.
We have an IPLI do refer out forsurgery everything but I it was
much more powerful. It was less expensive.
For our audience who may not be so familiar with homeopathy,
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could you describe the concepts behind it and some of the
strategies that you use as a clinical homeopath?
Yeah, So homeopathy enhances your own body's healing ability.
It stimulates the immune system to do a better job.
So pharmaceuticals are valuable because if you're really sick
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and you're you have symptomatic,it will decrease the symptoms so
that your body can have a chanceto catch up and heal.
But if you read the when you go to the pharmacy and you read
your prescription, they'll say it does not treat the problem,
it treats the symptoms. And they even say that.
But homeopathy actually goes to what is the underlying cause of
this? Why are you having an ear
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infection? Why are you having allergies?
It could be a gluten intolerance.
It can be an allergy that's leading to the ear infection.
You don't need an antibiotic because you're getting the
infection. You need to treat the underlying
allergy that's creating the fluid in the ears etc.
Same thing with the eyes. What is the underlying issue?
Is it, you can't just give someone an anti-inflammatory, A
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steroid or a antibiotic because yes, the symptoms will go away
temporarily, but you still have that underlying reason that your
tear glands are not producing tears or you have the
inflammation. So that's what homeopathy does.
It uses a really small amount ofa substance that triggers a
healing response in the body. So it's safer because you're not
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giving chemicals or pharmaceuticals it you can use
it on infants and babies, on pregnant mothers.
It's far less expensive and it treats the underlying problem.
It may take longer because you're getting down to the root,
but I truly believe in it. And I always gave patients an
option. Say I was treating an allergic
conjunctivitis, which is itchy red eyes.
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I'd say, hey, I can write you a prescription.
I can give you homeopathic medicine, or we can just use
self-care like cold compress andeye washes.
So a lot of patients would say, Oh my gosh, I'm so grateful
because my doctor does not believe in alternative care or
complementary care at all. And they were grateful that I
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gave them options. So I think it's for any
physicians who are listening outthere, it's good to give your
patients options. Most of the physicians that I
know actually use natural and complementary medicine at home,
but for some reason they don't apply that in the process.
I hope that hearing your story, more people will be open, at
least their eyes will be open tothe possibilities that there are
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other strategies out there and there are other approaches to
health that don't have to be completely founded in
pharmaceuticals and or surgeries.
So I'm in a very similar kind ofstate of state of mind where
I've integrated my training and functional medicine with
ophthalmology site. Can you give us an example,
Doctor Briscoe? And you mentioned allergies, but
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what may be an example of a natural substance that our body
makes that can help a particulareye issue?
With homeopathy, it's usually not substances that the body
makes, but substances that we know will trigger that healing
response. So irritate the body at a level
that's not going to cause the disease, but it'll get the
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body's immune system, which is super powerful problem.
For instance, we are being bombarded every day by bacteria
and viruses, but the reason we don't get sick is because your
immune system is always fightingfor you.
And you know that your immune system's shut off is because
when a person's passed away, then their body starts
decomposing because you no longer have that system.
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Examples are for dry eyes. Instead of using just a tear
replacement, you want to treat everything from opening the tear
glands with heated compresses and infrared my mask to tear
stimulation drops rather than tear replacement drops.
So you want to send a message tothe brain saying hey, produce
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more tears and L And here's a good example of homeopathy too,
is instead of knocking down the door with a machine gun or
hammers, we use the key in that key knows exactly what to do to
heal, help your body heal itselfbecause your immune system is
much stronger than any medicine could tell it to.
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Do wow. So it's really a matter of
modulating the immune system through my almost like micro
dosing like tiny subclinical amounts of substances that
primes your immune system to help to basically kick start
your own healing. Is that kind of a way to
describe it? Yeah, yeah.
And I use homeopathy as part of a toolbox in the office.
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We'll use very sophisticated diagnostic tools.
If a patient had dry eyes. Back to that because I was just
reading today that over 80% of people who use computers and are
on digital devices have suffer from dry eyes because you don't
blink as much. Your blink weight is down by 80%
because the pixels on the screenare electronically refreshing.
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So it's really moving. The picture of your computer
screen, you'll see all the lineson it's moving.
So your eyes, your brain slows down your eye blinking so that
you're not blinking while it's moving.
So the tier glands just end up getting clogged up.
So I would use a digital imagingto actually see if there's
clogged, clogged tier glands. Have any of them atrophied or
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been damaged? We will send home self-care and
then I'll use in the office IPL frequency so we can actually use
light and use use the radio frequency to heat up and treat
inflammation. So it's a combination
everything, but it's not a one man show.
Like like I would prescribe fishoils to patients that would do,
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they would do lid massages and instead of giving really harsh
lid scrubs or phones that have detergents in it, I would use
something like, I don't know if you've heard of zocchilar, but
they use okra based ingredient that is actually more powerful
than Anna antibacterials. And this was in the NIH that I
was reading their publication onit.
So I'll use things like that to use as natural as possible.
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But again, I'm still use pharmaceuticals, write
prescriptions every day. I'm no longer in practice now
because I'm modeling around the world, but it's a combination of
everything and cleaning the bestout of all these different
knowledge bases to help patients.
Love it all. It's so much in tune with my
philosophy as well. It's not one or the other, but
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it's taking the best of both worlds and using them together.
And every patient is different, right?
So not every patient is getting the same regimen.
It's based off of what may be going on in their own system
that's causing the issue. So this has been such a
fascinating discussion thus far.Doctor Briscoe, I've always
wondered about homeopathy. I've always seen there are
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certain drops that used to be onthe market in the US, I believe
that they're not currently on the market anymore that were
homeopathic eye drops and they had ingredients like eye bright
and then number of other ingredients that I can't even
pronounce. But I think believe there's
certain herbal ingredients. Are there specific herbs or
other botanicals that you use aswell?
Or you have used as well for certain eye issues?
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Expand a little bit on the eyebrow because you can still
get that in some drops and you can get it also as homeopathic
medicine because that is actually an anti-inflammatory.
And I don't know if you knew this, but it is a mass cell
inhibitors, meaning that it getsit inhibits the cells that would
release histamine, which makes your eyes cheery, itchy and red.
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It actually stopped from happening.
So I bright or Euphrasia is a really great homeopathic
medicine that you can use and most of these do not require
prescription, but you still really should work with a
homeopathic Dr. or an integrative optometrist or
ophthalmologist to direct you. It's so much better than self
prescribing because there's so much misinformation on the
(13:58):
Internet. But I like eye bright for eye
fatigue. I love Ruda grav, Ruta grav
violence. I just call it ruta grav.
It actually it's an analgesic. It's antibacterial, anti
flammatory, and it helps decrease the strain of the eye,
the tiny little eye ligaments around your eyes because that
spends, what is it like 9-10 hours.
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Teams, I think it's almost 11 atthis point.
It's crazy. It's mind boggling how much time
we spend on screens. Yeah, so tiring too.
When I was in practice, I saw patients four days a week, and I
did research and wrote one day aweek.
And the day that I was in front of the computer most of the day
was more tiring for me than the days I was seeing patients
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thousands of times across the page.
And they're always focusing. It's a lot of work.
Even though you're sitting still.
Your eyes, please treat your eyes well.
Figure out work horses for you. Absolutely.
So if somebody wanted to perhapstry some of these homeopathic
strategies, is there like a daily routine that you recommend
or is it you use the products asneeded?
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How does it work? The typical dosage would be 5
pellets under your tongue. Let it melt.
That'll be two to three times a day.
As you start to see improvement,you decrease that.
Most places like Whole Foods carry a 6C and A30C.
Unless it's neurological, they're pretty interchangeable.
If it's neurological, like it's related to nerve pain or
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something like that, you'd want to use the higher dosage or if
you're sensitive to it. But again, that it's easier said
than done it it's so much betterunder the guidance of a clinical
homeopath or an integrative holistic Doctor Who knows how to
use that. But then you can't just use that
in isolation if you have eye strain and fatigue.
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We talked about using the hot compresses with infrared mask.
Use massage to open up and push out, open up to your to your
glands and then taking breaks every 20 minutes.
Look away for 20 seconds, 20 feet away and let the eyes
relapse. It's like you don't go to the
gym and just keep working out for 8 hours straight.
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We're working our eyes out for 8hours straight.
It's. Unnatural, right?
We're doing our lifestyle these days in modern technology.
Yeah. I love all those tips.
You've given us so much amazing information, Doctor Briscoe.
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Help Summit. We're chatting with Doctor Elise
Frisco, who is truly a Renaissance woman, optometrist,
homeopath, and now internationalmodel.
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Let's talk now about beauty because I know that is one of
your your strengths. You were like such a role model
out there on the runway promoting beauty for not just
eye health, but overall health. So what are some of the beauty
strategies you use yourself in your daily routine?
Could you share that? I'm happy to because I combine
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the knowledge that I have as an integrative optometrist and
clinical homeopath now with my experience as a model.
And I'm realizing, thank God I've lived a clean, healthy life
because I would not be able to model after 34 years of being in
practice if I had not LED such ahealthy life.
And I just want to show here's one of my.
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Yeah. Yeah, and I don't have my
Harper's Bazaar, but I was in Harper's Bazaar USA last month
and I was just in Cosmopolitan. So it starts with sleeping.
You can't cheat sleep. You definitely need to sleep.
Hydration is super important. And I'm, I'm talking about
beauty from the inside out because a lot of people say just
what creams do I use or what makeup do I use?
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The beauty routine starts way before I get on the runway with
the skin care, with the self-care.
So hydration, I drink a lot of water.
I love coconut water and I also take collagen because we start
to lose collagen after a while. So I put this in my smoothies
every day. This one happens to be by saying
these guys don't sponsor me at all.
I just love it. And then when I'm on the road, I
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don't have it's harder for me tomake my smoothie.
So I just take little gummies. It's my little treat.
But and then fish oil, fish oil.Oh my gosh, my dermatologist is
what recommended that. And I'm taking Carlson fish oil
literally for 13 years. I don't dare stop it, but so
that's what I take internally. I sleep, I meditate, I work out
because working out not only is good for your body, oxygen and
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blood circulation to your eyes. When I wake up in the morning, I
drink 2 glasses of water immediately because I want to
jump start static drainage system.
So front. Load your water Absolutely.
Load my water, I want it. And then I do facial yoga
because that. Yeah.
Could you demonstrate, Could youshow us like when the exercises
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you do? When I first was introduced to
it, I was like, what is this? But now that I've done the
research on it, I've actually seen because I don't have any
fillers or anything. And if you guys do the math,
being in practice in 34 years, I've been around for a while, is
facial yoga can increase the muscle tone just like when
you're working out your body, soyou have more firmness on the
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muscles supporting the eyes or the face, the jaw, neck to lift
it up more. It also in stimulates collagen
production. I don't really understand how
that works, but I've cited so many references that say that.
And then you also jumps, you also get the lymphatic drainage
system going because you're moving the toxins just very
lightly because the lymph nodes are just.
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Lymph system is just right underneath the skin.
You don't have to do a deep massage.
So something simple that you cando at home that I do almost
every morning when I wake up with my water stretch and I want
to get sunlight right away. So I open up the window, get
that sunlight going so my body knows it's time to wake up
because I don't drink coffee. Then this is super simple.
I'll take my 2 little fingers, put them on either side of my
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nose and then sorry, I haven't done my nails.
And then I just smooth out on both sides.
I make a light circle and out and I'm moving up and this is
helping to drain any. If you have some puffiness under
eye bags when you wake up, you do that about 15 seconds.
Do it three times and then it's even better if then you end up
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taking it down to your lymph nodes because there's some lymph
nodes right in front of your ears and behind your ears, and
if you take it down there, you're actually moving through
your body. Is it mechanically stimulating
the flow of lymph and helping todetoxify?
Along those lines, so I've done the smoothing, then the next
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thing I'm going to do is actually work on the muscle.
So I'll do the V here that I washere before.
And then without moving my fingers, I'm giving enough
resistance. I'm closing my eyes and try this
doc because you'll feel it that you're giving this resistance
and that's actually strengthen the muscles without squinching
or anything like that. Blink normally.
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Is that what you're doing or you're doing a fourth?
Hard blink while you're holding your fingers like.
I can definitely feel that, yeah.
There's so many facial yoga. I'm just showing the eyes since
I'm an optometrist. And then the last one is the big
eyes. So now you do this and you open
your eyes a little bit and you can feel again against the eyes.
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So three simple things with the facial yoga that you can do that
really helps. Another question I get asked a
lot too is oh, and by the way, before I do that, I usually put
on some eye cream because I don't want to have stretch Marks
and pull along along the eyes and everything I do is well
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thought out. I vetted everything out.
So I use something called herbalface Food and they have an eye
cream. And the reason I choose this is
it's 100% botanical. There's not one artificial
ingredient in this. And so I use feeds my skin and
what's interesting is when I wasdoing pageants, I hadn't seen my
makeup artist for a couple months when I started using
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herbal face food and then she saw me.
She said what did you do with your skin?
Because I'm an open book, you can see how my skin, I have no
pores. It's super smooth.
And it was because it was reallynoticeable difference with that.
So I used that and then I use the power of stem cells because
stem cells actually go to damaged cells and help to repair
it. And there is a physician in
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Beverly Hills, Dr. Nathan Newman, who has invented this
line where he uses plant stem cells to increase collagen
elastin that increases firmness so that when you pull your skin,
it jumps back rather than being really creepy.
I use, it's called them the StemCompany and I use their give you
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exactly what it is, the regenerative skin, regenerative
serum and then the night and theday formula.
We'll include all of those linksthat Doctor Briscoe just
mentioned, so if anyone wants toconsider trying any of the
products you mentioned, you can easily access those links.
So Doctor Briscoe, I know you are super busy flying around the
world spreading your message of holistic health and what people
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can do. Have you come across any myth or
misconception about aging and vision that you'd love to dispel
today? Anything people always say to
you that you say no, that's justnot true.
Well, the number one misconception is that your eyes
are going to last forever because you wake up, you open
your eyes, and people don't understand that the eyes age
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like the rest of the body. So you can see your skin, your
face, your body getting older, but you really can't see your
eyes getting older. But there's so many.
I always tell patients, don't wait until you get sick.
Don't wait until you can't see. Start early and there's some
preventive things that you can do because overtime we talked
about the aging around the eyes,but how about the aging in the
eyes with cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma,
(24:46):
floaters? It's so important on a daily
basis to protect your eyes from sun wearing a good pair of
sunglasses, not to stare into the sun because the sun
accelerates aging of tissue. With glaucoma, I'm going to give
a shout out for an annual eye exam.
Glaucoma has no symptoms. That's the weird thing about the
eyes. There's really no pain or
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warning sign. I have had dinner with a friend
last night who had a retinal detachment and he said I didn't
know something was wrong with myeyes until there was a shadow in
front of my eyes. One more day he could have
gotten blind and I'm not over exaggerating.
So it is essential because you can't tell yourself if you have
a problem or not to get that annual eye exam.
Like you don't wait until you have a terrible toothache.
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You go the doctor, the dentist, you go twice a year get your
teeth cleaned. Your eyes are not replaceable.
You can get dentures, implants for you could not get an implant
for your eyes. So please, your eyes checked.
Out. I always tell my patients,
there's so many health checkups that we get.
We go see our annual, see our primary care doctor for annual
checkups, get our blood work done.
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You see the dentist twice a year.
We go for our mammograms and colonoscopies.
But what about our vision? Like, it's just not something
that people recognize as a priority, but it needs to be.
It really should be on your checklist of things that you do
proactively to prevent issues going forward.
So important. Thank you for bringing that up.
Doctor Briscoe No. Absolutely.
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I still get my eyes checked. Yeah, and I just wet myself.
Yes. Put that on your calendar.
Everyone, please, today, if you haven't been in the past year to
go see your eye doctor, put it on your calendar.
For children, 9 out of 10 schoolage children have never had an
there is and one out of five kids have a visually related
learning problem, like a tracking problem, a focusing
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problem, and you're not going tocatch it unless you test for it.
I've had ophthalmologists who bring their children in to see
me because I did a post doctor fellowship in children's vision.
So they bring their children in for eye exams with me and then
they're horrified that their child has a vision problem
because they're not. Because they never checked their
own child's eyes. You can't tell if you're seeing
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correctly or not because you're unable to compare how you see
compared to someone else. If someone doesn't respond to
you when you're talking to them,they may have a hearing problem.
I've had kids come in who have diplopia or double vision who
did not know that was abnormal till I tested them.
Found out they have a lazy eye or stray business and the
parents like why didn't you evertell me that you see double and
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the kid will say I I thought everyone saw like this think
it's normal so please have your kids eyes checked too because it
may be interfering with their academic performance, their
ability to catch a ball. I was the team optometrist for
the Anaheim Ducks and the NHL, and I was able to use sports
enhancement training to actuallyhelp them see faster, more
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accurately guide their hands so that they can.
You have so many important messages, Doctor Briscoe, but I
think the most important thing Ihope listeners will take away
from this part of our discussionis have an eye doctor on your
healthcare team. Yes, you have multiple different
professionals, healthcare providers, but your eye doctor
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should be an essential member ofyour healthcare team at any
stage of life. Not just for older individuals,
but younger people too. Especially given the amount of
time we spend on screens these days, all kinds of things can
happen. I want to encourage people too,
that it's never too early to start taking care of yourself
and it's never too late to starteither.
You're. So true.
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Don't wait another 10 years. Doctor Briscoe, this has been an
enlightening conversation. I'm so glad we had this
discussion. I learned about homeopathy.
You answered so many questions that I've had floating around in
my mind. And glad to hear some of those
products are still available. If anyone wanted to learn more
from you, perhaps follow you on social media, how could they
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find you? Handle is Hollywood eyes because
I practiced in Hollywood. So Hollywood UI ES on Instagram,
on TikTok it's Hollywood dot eyes and on YouTube it's
Hollywood eyes. Doctor Lee's Briscoe and just DM
me. Let me know that you saw me on
Doctor Ronnie's show and let's start a conversation because I
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health really should be your lifestyle and your medicine is
the strongest way you can take care of yourself better than
waiting till you're sick and taking drugs to Let's use the
way you live so that you can live better.
And I also, the reason I do thisis I want to help people embrace
aging rather than fear it. It's bound to happen to all of
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us, right? Like, we can't get away from it,
so we might as well embrace it and continue to function as best
we can. I think a lot of people
associate getting older with losing of their ability to do
certain things, but that does not have to be the case.
And you're the perfect example of someone who's been able to do
that. Yeah, and I'm sure you've had
the same thing. I've had so many patients come
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into my office who are 40, whichI consider a baby, and say,
Doctor Briscoe, I'm old and I'm thinking you're barely at your
halfway mark. Are you going to feel sorry for
yourself because you're old for the next half of your life?
You're just starting to get to the good part.
Yeah, I love that. So important.
It's about mindset, right? Part of it is what we do, but
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part of it is also having a mindset that is positive, that's
helpful, vibrant, and it will reflect from the inside out.
As you said, under your control that you can prevent and even
reverse health problems. And it doesn't cost much if you
incorporate that into how you eat, moving every day, sleeping,
meditating, using good products.Yeah.
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So much for sharing your incredible insights with us
today on the ihealth Summit. Dr. Briscoe, I will have all of
your links included for the products and also your social
media links. If anyone wanted to reach out to
you, they'll be right under for the interview so you can easily
access them. But again, thank you for joining
us, Doctor Brisca, and thank youall for being here today on the
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ihealth Summit and I will see you all very soon.
Thank you for tuning in to the IQ Podcast.
I hope you enjoyed today's episode and learn something new
to help you boost your IQ. Leave us a review and share the
podcast with your family and friends.
Stay connected with me for more eye opening insights on ihealth,
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nutrition and lifestyle. Until next time, keep your
vision clear and your IQ sharp.
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