In my daily e-mails, I get these two questions quite a lot:
“Why does nobody talk about a myopia cure?” and “Why are there so many Internet scams on eyesight health?”
The reason for both, besides the topics we discuss on the main page of this site in depth, is one that most people never have given any thought.
Let’s look at the first question – the myopia cure:
When you ask about improving your eyesight, or the cause of myopia, or curing your myopia, the question you are really creating is actually a bit different.
What you are asking, is this:
How Do I Get Away From Depending On You, The Optometrist?
Even the optometrist isn’t consciously thinking of this, but that is what he/she hears. You could rephrase the question as “why can’t you fix my eyes” or “how can I stop paying you more money every year, just to get bad news and bigger prescriptions”.
If you think of the meaning of your question this way, it might be more obvious why you never get a satisfactory response.
Going to the sales person of a product, asking how to stop your dependency on his product, isn’t going to be very fruitful. And if anything is hard to dispute, it is that the optometrist is a prescription lens sales clerk. On some level it is insulting to that individual, since in so many ways you are asking why they fail at what they claim to be their job. On some level it is misunderstanding what their actual job is.
This brings us to the second part of this article:
Why are there so many vision health scams online?
Had you asked me two years ago, I could have not said anything at all on the subject. I didn’t use the Web for much more than receive e-mail from friends and check the weather forecast.
It’s been what feels like a lifetime, since two years ago. And here is what is happening:
The scams aren’t just about eyesight. They are about every single health related topic. From heart disease, to diabetes, to hair loss and weight management. Anything related to your health, is littered with questionable sites and promises.
This is because there isn’t a suitable and accepted alternative to mainstream medicine. And in more than a few cases, mainstream medicine has major problems with credibility. People ask, not just with eyesight, why they can not be cured, and why the doctor’s answer is always some pill, some surgery, some big ticket expense.
Much Of Mainstream Medicine Is A Massive For Profit Business, Masqueraded As “Health Care”.
This leaves millions of people, suffering from ailments for which they receive no satisfactory answers, seeking alternatives.
And often, these alternatives exist. Looking at heart disease and the big mess that is Statins is a great example. Here you have Harvard professors discussing the abuse of big pharma in well presented documentaries. It’s not something your doctor is likely to know or tell you about – instead you will just get the pharma peddled “wisdom” on Cholesterol, and a Statins prescription.
It’s really pretty much exactly the same as my field, with eyesight health.
So then the person may go fishing online, looking for alternatives. And for every one legitimate resource, there are fifty more which are of questionable merit, or outright scams.
The problem always go back to smart individuals looking for a better answer than “take this prescription, for the rest of your life, there is no cure” (ie. you can’t get away from us). And if the governing bodies in medicine weren’t in the pockets of big pharma, we wouldn’t have these scams – because we would have answers that make more sense, and people wouldn’t have to go looking in the swamps of the Web, for better answers.
Enough people are aware that they are being taken for a ride, by the medical establishment. Add to that cynicism the outrageous claims online, and the many scams, and you end up with what we have today.
On the subject of eyesight health: There is no such thing as a myopia cure.
All there is, is getting away from poor vision health advice, and the for profit enterprise that is the majority of the industry. There isn’t a cure, because there isn’t a disease. What I think of modern myopia instead, is willful body modification. It’s not until we wear those focal plane changing minus lenses extensively, that our eyes eventually adapt to them.
Quite a while back, I had found a suitable image for comparison:
The question when looking for a myopia cure is really, how do we undo the damage, caused by poor vision health advice. And we keep getting no answers, by asking the same guys who cause the problem in the first place.
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