Episode 027: Travis Zigler OD, Functional Eye Health, Visionary Missionaries with an Eye for Love

In Episode 027 of A Medicinal Mind: Wisdom and Wellbeing, we turn our gaze inwards and talk all things functional when it comes to eye health with entrepreneurial optometrist Dr. Travis Zigler. Dr. Zigler graduated in 2010 from The Ohio State University College of Optometry and is the founder of Eye Love, https://eyelovethesun.com, an organization and business whose mission is to end preventable blindness. Travis and his wife, Dr. Jenna Zigler, use the profits from Eye Love to fund free and low cost clinics in South Carolina and Jamaica.  

They also started a charity called the Eye Love Cares Foundation, https://eyelovecares.org, which provides exams, glasses and sunglasses for those in need, free education, and scholarships for students that align with their mission.  

In this conversation Travis describes his framework for understanding eye disease, seeing systemic chronic inflammation as a much greater contribution to the health of our eyes than when classically think.

Travis then shares his revolutionary business model, turning the classic optometry clinic on its head in order to create a flourishing online business and education platform that has enabled him and his wife to fund larger scale mission trips to provide eye exams to those who otherwise would go without.

We explore the evolution and success of new businesses driven by foundational missions and core values as compared to the simple pursuit of growing the size of a business.

We then get back into the medical space as Travis offers his insights into some of the most common conditions he sees affecting the eye and how he seeks to help his patients heal.

We explore the role of a plant based diet, supplements such as fish oil, the integration of regular eyelid cleaning and the protection of one’s eyes from blue light as some of the most effective ways to prevent many of the common chronic eye conditions.

Jumping from dry eye and cataracts to disrupted sleep from blue light exposure and myopia, Travis offers so much practical insights into how we can effectively keep our eyes and our entire bodies healthy as we age.

Please check out the links on the podcast page to explore Travis’s business, his foundation and the many products he offers including his variety of more fashionable and functionally designed blue light blocking glasses.

Having searched at length to find functionally mind clinicians speaking about eye health, I feel so blessed to have found Travis and to share this conversation with you.

I really hope you enjoy the show.

​Stay up to date with Dr. Zigler and his advice by using the following website links


Dr. Zigler
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Eye Love: https://eyelovethesun.com/

Eye Love’s Vision Vision / Mission: https://eyelovethesun.com/pages/2019-vivid-vision-for-eye-love

Eye Love Cares Foundation: https://eyelovecares.org

Eye Love Shop:https://eyelovethesun.com/collections/all

Dry Eye Syndrome Support Community:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dryeyesupport/


Blue Light Blocking Reading Glasses:
https://eyelovethesun.com/products/vagary-computer-reading-glasses-blue-light-blocking?variant=43024012942


Eye Love on Amazon

• Sunglasses:
  
  • https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=me%3DA2JLGM9DE4Z30V&field-keywords=sunglasses
• Dry Eye Products:
  
  • https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=me%3DA2JLGM9DE4Z30V&field-keywords=dry+eyes

Business Consulting and Coaching
Business Igniters:
https://www.facebook.com/Business-Igniters-165108987349546/
Dr. Travis Zigler:https://www.facebook.com/Dr-Travis-Zigler-261315727610737/


Hilarious Eclipse Youtube video =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kr3GNPCC2I&t=1s

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