Ocular Wellness

Dr Pretty Basra is pioneering ocular wellness in the UK, integrating eye health into a whole-person approach to wellbeing. This is where optometry meets nutrition, heart health and biohacking.

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What Your Eyes Are Telling You About Your Stress Levels

Most people think of a sight test as exactly that, a test of how clearly you can see. What they don't realise is that your eyes are one of the most revealing windows into the state of your overall health. Including your stress levels. Including the state of your nervous system. Including your hormonal balance, your sleep quality, and what your body is carrying that your conscious mind might be too busy to notice. As the first UK optometrist to integrate ocular wellness into c

Dr Pretty Basra

Jun 215 min read

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What Your Eyes Are Really Telling You -And Why Nobody In Optometry Has Been Asking - Ocular Wellness

But something kept nagging at me. Because what I was seeing in the eyes, the early vascular changes, the signs of inflammation, the nutritional markers quietly visible in the retina, rarely matched the conversation we were having. We were seeing things that mattered. Things that, if acted on early, could change the trajectory of someone's health. And we were largely staying silent about them. Not because we didn't care. Because the system wasn't built for that conversation.

Dr Pretty Basra

May 294 min read