The Future Of Vision Improvement: Apps & Games
We have a lot of discussion internally, on how to best serve you, our reader and supporter of this site. A lot of this is purely theoretical, since it all hinges on the current day dreams of "what if the site actually made money"?For the moment, you are getting ongoing new articles here, and the best we have in terms of support in the forum, and of course Alex' excellent Web courses.You also get the useful printable diopter measuring tape, and a few android apps [...]
Can You Prevent Or Treat Presbyopia?
Presbyopia is another way our bodies like to rub it in that we don't stay young forever:Presbyopia is the irreversible loss of the accommodative ability of the eye that occurs due to aging. Accommodation refers to the ability of the eye to increase its refractive power of the crystalline lens in order to focus near objects on the retina.[1] The most significant decrease in accommodative power occurs in between the ages of 20 and 50. In the first two decades of life accommodative amplitude has been [...]
Eye Doctors Who Endorse & Support Vision Rehabilitation (-3.25 Update)
Eli writes: I’m happy to report that I went to the eye doctor 2 days ago and had a complete eye exam (dilation and all). I was able to read 20/15 (both eyes, slightly straining with left) with my -7.50 contacts (which is a whole .50 less than my previous eye doctor insisted I needed). I proceeded to tell him about the vision rehab that I am working on and to my shock he has said that he seen people be able to drop there strengths [...]
The Global Myopia Epidemic: A 100 Billion Dollar Profit Motive
Lucy recently published an excellent article on the explosion of statin use. The problem is endemic of many areas of Western medicine where chronic rather than acute symptoms are to be dealt with. Acute symptoms are increasingly effectively resolved, while chronic ailments are simply medicated with very questionable long term results.One such area, widely ignored when it comes to massive health epidemics of recent times, is myopia. Many people don't even know the term, which simply refers to shortsightedness of the eye. Glasses, contact lenses, and [...]
Intermittent Fasting: A Tool To Fix Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) and Improve Eyesight?
Here, a quick visit into my journey of breaking through vision improvement plateaus. If you get stuck and aren't getting the improvements you are looking for lately, this is the article for you. The whole question of improving eyesight, what has evidence and what does not, now has one page: how to improve your eyesight. ---If you spent most of your life behind glasses and contact lenses, discovering the vision improvement methods on this site can be a revelation. You end up learning a lot, [...]
Johnny: Working Out Double Vision & Astigmatism Reduction
Johnny writes in the forum, volunteering time to update us about his challenges with double vision, too much prescription reduction, and his astigmatism correction. Astigmatism now has one page that gathers all of this in one place: astigmatism, what it is and what changes it. If you have astigmatism, or double vision experiences, this is well worth the read: Hi everyone Time for an update! There’s been a lot going on so this might be a long post… Its been an interesting (and tough!) couple [...]
