Hi team,
I understand there may not be any ophthalmologist lifters so some general advice if you have any. According to glaucoma risk literature, weight lifting especially holding ones breath during heavy lifts, has an effect on eye pressure, which is a risk factor for eye diseases like glaucoma. Is this statement supported by scientific studies? Any other advice?
Regards,
Christian
Unfortunately I don’t know enough to give a confident opinion on this, and at the moment don’t have sufficient time to dig into the literature on this topic either. Sorry about that.
I suppose we’ll need to recruit a BBM ophthalmologist for these sorts of questions, since they do come up relatively frequently around here.
Hello docs. Any updates or new research since my original post? Thanks