Andrew Huberman· PhD
the number one most important element to prevent diabetic retinopathy is to control your diabetes and having a real good blood sugar control keeping your hemoglobin A1c which is one of the blood tests that gets used to measure how your kind of long-term diabetes management is going that's really you know first and foremost the most important and that's been shown in large clinical trials they actually randomize patients to hey take care of your diabetes or do a real good job taking care of your diabetes and the patients who did a real good job taking care of their diabetes have much less diab diabetic retinopathy