(Reader Mail): How My Job Helped To Fix (And Hurt) My Eyesight
The following is an e-mail from a client, his experiences improving his eyesight, and also a good cautionary tale for just how easily you can damage your eyesight. *** I came to Alex in the late summer of 2002. My eyes had been stable at -6.50 (left) and -7.25(right) for a good ten years. The previous year though, the eye exam results showed an increase in astigmatism, and a bit worse vision in my right eye. I was 43, and that result brought back some [...]
Sara: Child Myopia Recovery – A Success Story
Helping your child to improve his/her eyesight can be a challenging project. Short attention spans, general parenting challenges, the many temptations of hours of close-up time - it's not always so easy, being a parent.Especially with the rapid proliferation of smartphone games over the past number of years, we are seeing more children being prescribed minus lenses. The ages too are getting alarmingly younger. A child's eye adopts more rapidly than an adults in most cases, and of course myopia is simply adaptation to strain [...]
Better Eyesight: Lifestyle vs. Exercise Routines
There are some things we have to admit about ourselves, if we want to succeed in improving our eyesight. The process itself is almost foolproof and has worked on many thousands of clients in our 40 years of practice. It is the other thing, that really determines success vs. failure: Commitment. Most of us have made Newyears resolutions that never actually came to pass. We all know somebody who has tried some diet and failed to loose or maintain their desired weight loss. We tend [...]
Glasses: Creating Dependency for a Product?
I get a fair amount of e-mail, asking about the reasons that so much of the status quo of vision health is centered around selling glasses and contact lenses. My answer is always the same: I don't believe that there is malice, at the heart of the matter. I myself, having been educated in the status quo, have only had benign experiences. We learned a whole lot about the biology, symptoms, diseases, conditions, assessments, medical tools. Of course, there is the fact that selling prescription [...]
Leverage Vacation Time For Serious Vision Improvement
Jake posts in the forum: Following the “vacation series” of the Web program, pretty much exactly … Today I had a strange moment, at breakfast. Been doing the steps for maybe about a week now, actually paying attention. While I was sitting there, lake side, drinking tea, looking at the grass … suddenly, the usual green sort-of-blur just JUMPED OUT into individual grass blades. It was freakish, unsubtle, sudden, jarring. I could SEE the grass blades! Now, I’m still at -2D (in good sunlight), and [...]
Why You Should Be Keeping A Log
Of course it sounds like extra work, keeping a log, especially a proper one which includes: Prescription strength history Snellen results - morning, good natural lighting Snellen results - artificial lighting Snellen results - end of the day, poor lighting Centimeter results Factoring in centimeter results for various conditions, including before and after close-up time, that is quite a bit of data to keep track of. On the upside, most of the measuring you do in the first and second month. Once you [...]