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.
A Look At Optometrist Overprescription
As we often discuss here in the blog, overprescription for the absolute maximum correction is standard practice among optometrists. This leads to progressive myopia that is primarily lens-induced, and could absolutely be avoided. If prescription practices weren't as they are today, very few people would use more than a -1.50 prescription lens.Think about this - of the over 2 billion (!) myopes today, the vast majority are lens-induced myopes. This is a condition entirely created by the prescription - not [...]
Myopia Reversal: A Pathologists Perspective
Nathan writes:I am a pathologist-which means that my medical specialty is in the disease process. I spend a lot of time thinking about health and disease in the body.The body responds to stress. All biological systems do. This is a general biological principle. There are constant feedback sensors and mechanisms all over the body which constantly monitor the body’s status and make adjustments.While I don’t know the exact enzymes involved in eyeball shortening, I can identify a universal biological principle.If [...]
Internet Scams And What You Really Mean When You Say Myopia Cure
In my daily e-mails, I get these two questions quite a lot:"Why does nobody talk about a myopia cure?" and "Why are there so many Internet scams on eyesight health?"The reason for both, besides the topics we discuss on the main page of this site in depth, is one that most people never have given any thought.Let's look at the first question - the myopia cure:When you ask about improving your eyesight, or the cause of myopia, or curing your [...]
151 Ophthalmologists Earn $658 Million In Medicare Payments
We talked about how much money the lens manufacturers make. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year in revenue, from an illness that is manufactured by their very industry.Doctors though, also benefit handsomely from towing the company line for lens manufacturers.Let's look at highlights of the full and disturbing story, from this PBS article:WASHINGTON — Medicare paid a tiny group of doctors $3 million or more apiece in 2012. One got nearly $21 million.Those are among the findings of an [...]
Corinne’s Cure Myopia Journey
We have all heard the story from the optometrist: "Can't cure myopia". It is for this reason that I like collecting the stories of program participants here, especially posts from the support forum. But of course I am not the only one providing tools to help reduce and cure myopia. And while I am biased towards the finer points of the method discussed here, you can absolutely improve your vision using the strategies referenced on some other sites.This particular story [...]
Eye Vitamins – Eye Health In A Bottle?
James asks via e-mail:It seems that our modern diet causes a lot of deficiencies in our bodies. And doctors and medicine seem to agree that taking vitamins can help with some of those problems. So what about vitamins for eyesight? I see eye vitamins advertised online, and wonder if they might help."I learned about an Internet term not long ago. They call it, "trolling".And while I was reading the full e-mail (which included a few more questions), I did wonder. Is James [...]