What I Learned About Sugar And My Eyesight
There is something fascinating that you learn when you stop allowing optometrists to overprescribe your glasses.You start to realize how much your eyesight varies.If you don't get enough sleep, if you are stressed, if your ambient lighting is of low quality ... you can tell that your eyes struggle.Now this isn't the case if your eyes are in great shape.But when you are trying to recover your vision, the lowered prescriptions, the blur horizon, the active focus, they all help you see and tweak where [...]
Worried About Anxiety, Depression, Weight Gain? Should You Blame Those Glasses?
Did you know that your glasses could be responsible for anxiety and depression that you aren't even aware of? Maybe it's not that your days are monotonous and unfulfilling. Maybe your boss isn't that much of an a******. Maybe traffic isn't really that annoying.This is going to be delving a bit outside of the usual science minded approach of the site. But I have to tell you these things, get them off my blog-writing chest. Because you really should know these things.Ok. Are you ready?Jake [...]
Optometrists Know That Glasses Are Bad – But They Don’t Tell You
I love Neha's writing style. She is always positive, inclusive, forgiving.You know I struggle with this. I struggle, because over the past ten years I talked to hundreds and hundreds of optometrists all over the world. I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about the profession.Some optometrists are great. Behavioral optometrists in particular, hats off. These guys really try to help.But then there is the mainstream. The range there goes from casual ignorance to derisive condescension. "You are not in the club! [...]
Your Myopia: A Gateway To Glaucoma, Cataracts, & Retinal Detachment
Let's have a serious moment today, and look at prescriptions, and their long term consequences. A whole lot of medicines are poisons to varying degrees. They are beneficial to us, since they affect a specific part or organism which we can target at will. Antibiotics kill a range of bacteria in the body. We take them as prescriptions when we are affected by an infection our body is unable to resolve on its own. Of course you wouldn't take the antibiotic continually, only to deal with [...]
Gunnar Looks Back At His Mistakes Trying To Fix His Eyesight
The Internet is full of questionable wisdom about eyesight. Likewise, the local optometrist ideas vary quite widely on the subject of myopia. It's really a matter of luck, if you find us first, or end up here after a long search and experimenting. Your poor eyes, quite possibly, if you found us after you tried everything else already. I write here because of all the things out there, I really believe that Alex' course is by far the most effective way to fix your [...]
How To Improve Your Eyesight: Just 5 Steps
You can improve your eyesight in a matter of weeks, following a few simple steps: The whole question of improving eyesight, what has evidence and what does not, now has one page: how to improve your eyesight. Want To Improve Your Eyesight? #1: Never Wear Your Distance Glasses While Reading Your distance glasses are meant to let you see clearly far away. When you use it up-close, you create a lot of eye strain. Since you have gotten your eyes used to this through years and years of [...]
