General Vision Health Topics. Mostly we talk about myopia here, which we don’t consider to be an illness. While on that subject we do often end up crossing over into related issues that you may encounter, while working to reduce your myopia.
Everything from dry eyes, to the dangers of certain antibiotics, to risks of retinal detachment and glaucoma and lattice degeneration, you’ll find all the vision health related topics in this category.
Get Rid Of The Home Office: It’s Crap For Your Eyes
Semi off-topic Sunday. I'm not great at predictable weekly style articles. Today let's look at why I tell all my clients to scrap their home offices. Whenever I used to go see someone and they have a home office, I'd tell them that I won't talk to them about eyesight until that office is absolutely gone. I've dragged office desks hidden in the garage out onto driveways, and smashed them. (just once, that) Partially because I'm probably a bit strange, a [...]
Ouch. Here’s How You Mess Up Your Eyes
Grabbed that shot above on the Bangkok subway last week.Look at those people, no clue that they're working hard on ruining their eyesight.Artificial lighting, pretty dim to begin with. A subway, in motion. Those three, faces just inches from those tiny screens. And the whole time the subway car is moving around, so their eyes are having to continually try to keep focus on those screens.If I had to engineer the highest possible level of eye strain ... there it [...]
Low Myopia vs. High Myopia
Two interesting stories, today. First one is from Paul, who asks via e-mail: I’ve been browsing through your 7 day email course and first of all I wanted to say thank you for all the incredible and free information. If been also checking out your „join“ page and thinking about buying the course, but as I am a student, although health conscious and willing to invest if I see a good opportunity, which you course seems to be, I wanted [...]
Floaters In The Eye: Should You Be Panicking?
Let me not hold you in suspense.Yes. Panic is an appropriate response to floaters in your eyes.Kid's gonna have horse head floaters for *days*.Elsewhere, well researched and eloquently, you'll read things like what WebMD calls benign eye floaters:Eye floaters are small moving spots that appear in your field of vision. They may be especially noticeable when you look at something bright, such as white paper or a blue sky.Eye floaters can be annoying, but they generally don't interfere with your sight.Occasionally a particularly large [...]
Close-Up Addiction
Learning the ins and outs of video production is an exercise in human nature.For example, did you know that some pretty savvy video editors recommend you don't make any one clip part of your video longer than about 20 seconds? That's right, while you might be watching a thing and it's entertaining and seemingly continuous, there are a ton of "cuts" of little video pieces. Suck your brain in, never able to stop, always grabbing on to the next set [...]
Artificially Enhanced Flavors
This article is straight from Salon. (not my reading source of choice in general.. don't judge)“We look like our livestock now”: The author of “The Dorito Effect” on the chemically-enhanced junk food we can’t put down Salon talks to author Mark Schatzker about why the worse our food tastes, the more we eatWhen Doritos first hit store shelves in 1964, they weren’t Cool Ranch Doritos or Jumpin’ Jack Monterey Cheese Doritos or Jacked Ranch Dipped Hot Wings Doritos. (That last one [...]