Dietary Triggers: How What You Consume Affects IOP

In our piece on IOP Diurnal Fluctuation, we made the case that the major drivers of damaging IOP spikes are usually controllable — usually something the person introduced into their daily routine without realizing it would matter. This article shows what those things actually look like in practice.

The substances that affect eye pressure span a wide range. Some are well-characterized in research with decades of consistent findings. Others are recognized but not yet systematically catalogued — which is precisely the gap ODyn is designed to fill. Across all of them, individual variability is significant: what produces a major spike for one person may have no measurable effect on another.