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.
Forbes: Contact Lens Stock Tearing Up The Charts
Good news, Jake. That's what they keep telling me. Give them some good news.I try to do so as much as possible, by providing how-to's on reversing your myopia. But myopia itself is difficult for me to present in a positive light. You know why? Because I'm an amateur. Go ahead, shake your head at me. Let's hand it over to Forbes Magazine to teach us how to put a positive spin on the most destructive eyesight illness in all [...]
How Do You Get 20/20 Eyesight?
Let's start this with some perspective: 20/20 eyesight doesn't exist. Rather, it is just a vague approximation of visual acuity. It can be one thing or quite another, depending on who you ask, and how your optometrist measures. Stick around for a moment, while we look at what 20/20 means, and why you don't need to worry about it ... and what you want to focus on, instead.---Most people who first come to visit my office are looking to 20/20 [...]
Prescriptions Like Steroids – How Your Glasses Might Give You Unnatural Vision
Your optometrist is supposed to correct your vision deficiency. The goal should be for you to be able to see clearly at a distance. But how much correction are you actually given? And what does it do to you eyesight?---The optometry theory is that you should be able to see clearly at any distance. If your eyes work as they should, objects should just look smaller at greater distances, but never blurred. When you go to get an eye exam, [...]
Embryonic Stem Cells To Fix Macular Degeneration
Macular degeneration has been long viewed as yet another one of the "age related" eye diseases. And while as usual the establishment doesn't seem to take much interest in some of the other potential causes and prevention options, possible cures at least look promising.Here, an NPR blog health article discussing stem cell treatments:Scientists are reporting the first strong evidence that human embryonic stem cells may be helping patients.The cells appear to have improved the vision in more than half of [...]
Dangerous Light: HEV & Blue Light Damage To Your Eyesight
Artificial light sources can be very dangerous for your long term vision health.The fluorescent lights in your office, the blue favoring lighting of many screens, and lots of other light sources can potential cause retinal damage in the short term, and macular degeneration in the long term.This site is primarily intended to deal with myopia. It is the most prevalent of eye illnesses that have come to affect humanity only recently. However, there are a host of other eye health [...]
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, [...]