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[Day 1/7] The Truth About Myopia: How Your Eye Works - The Not Optometrist Sanction Version
Your eyes aren't broken. Myopia isn't a mysterious illness. There is pseudo myopia (a strain symptom), and progressive myopia (a lens-created stimulus).
http://endmyopia.org/end-myopia-home/Anmerkung: Hier folge ich teilweise anderen Theorien... thesen-zur-kurzsichtigkeit-t2196.html[Day 2/7] Insider Know-How: How They Really Got Their Eyesight Back
I picked out some of the best ones for you, with links to the original threads. That should give you hope and encouragement. Better yet, if you are a member you can post also and talk to other members about their experience. We have parents with myopic children, we have high myopes, we have athletes, we have every kind of myope in my therapy program. You're far from alone!
http://endmyopia.org/improve-eyesight-experiences/Anmerkung: Erfolge gibt's auch hier im Forum... erfolgsgeschichten-und-vorstellungen-f2.html[Day 3/7] How To Do with 10 Cents What the Optometrist does with a 100k (and why their way is designed to mislead)
All those measurements, they can be replicated with a ten cent ruler. Anywhere, anytime. Actually, a flexible measuring tape is best. The kind that rolls up, preferrably the small ones (usually sold at fabric stores or for a few cents on Amazon). You need the ruler to be able to measure the distance of your eye, to a page (or screen). Here's how you measure:
1. Take off your glasses.
2. Look at your screen (or a book, printed pages are best).
3. Start quite close where the text is perfectly clear, and slowly move back further, until there is the tiniest bit of blur. Literally, you want to stop at where the text stops being totally sharp. Any change in sharpness, that's your distance.
4. This distance is however many centimeters you want to record. Now get ready for the thing that blew my mind, when I first learned it: Diopters (the number that defines the strength of your glasses), is just inverse meters. That -4.50 diopters is just another way of saying, "22 centimers till blur".
http://endmyopia.org/focal-calculator/calc.htmlhttp://endmyopia.org/tricks-using-tape-measure/Anmerkung: Ja, ich halte es auch für wichtig, dass wir lernen, was Visus und Refraktionsfehler sind, was der Unterschied zwischen beiden ist und wie wir beides sehr schnell messen können, ohne dafür Optiker oder Augenarzt behelligen zu müssen... glossar-t2055.html[Day 4/7] The Diopter Numbers Tell a Secret Story (and here's how to decode it)
Put measurements in your schedule. A reminder to measure a few times a day, for the next week. You want to see some trends, like your eyesight on off days with no close-up work, days with exercise, days with natural day light. You want to compare good lighting vision vs. crappy fluoresecent light vision. Get some numbers! We'll dig more into them, and the more data you have, the more the future lessons will help you decode its meaning. You'll have much more fun with my insights when you can directly apply them to your log.
Anmerkung: Je mehr ich mich mit dem eigenen Sehvermögen auseinandersetze, desto klarer können mir Zusammenhänge werden.[Day 5/7] Prescriptions and the Insidious Way They Modify Your Eye (and possibly screw them up forever)
Your eye isn't this static, dumb thing, like the optometrist may make it seem, with that static lens correction. Rather, and hang on to your seat for this, your eye grows based on what you see around you. If you move the focal plane back further in your eye with a lens, the eye will take this as new focal plane stimulus and ... grow longer.
1. First your myopia is a muscle spasm. Too much close-up, muscle gets "locked up" in close-up mode. Distance vision is slightly blurry.
2. Minus lenses are prescribed. They move the light back further in the eye, compensating for the muscle spsasm (while not fixing it).
3. The minus causes the eye to grow longer. Now that prescription is no longer strong enough (after about a year in the beginning, on average). More prescription is needed to move the light back further in the longer eye.
Three diopters equals about 1 milimeter in eyeball growth (if you were curious).
Anmerkung: Ja zu Punkt 3![Day 6/7] The Single Worst Thing You've Been Doing With Your Eyes, Every Single Day
The single worst thing, what you really don't want to be doing at all, ever, is wear your full distance correcting prescription, while looking at the screen 60cm from your eyes. For the sake of not leaving you hanging here though, the short version is, take your distance prescription, subtract 1.5 diopters. Don't modify anything else, the prescription has to be the same as your distance prescription in terms of relative left vs. right eye strength. Drop the astigmatism if it's just 0.50 diopters, and instead of subtracting 1.5 diopters total, subtract only 1.25. If it's 0.25 astigmastim just drop it, no other changes.
Anmerkung: Für Bildschirmarbeit trage ich manchmal eine Brille mit maximal -2 Dioptrien. Manchmal geht es auch ganz ohne Sehhilfe.[Day 7/7] Getting Around the Optometrist Sales Pitch: Better Prescriptions ,without the High Price
1. There is such a thing as crappy light.
Like low quality food and dirty air, there's good light and bad light. Light has a huge, massive impact on your eyesight (and your brain as well). A recent study actually successfully reversed amnesia, using blue light (that story, here). You definitely want to start to care about light quality. Good light is natural light (full spectrum UV, which is what your eye is built for). If you can sit next to a window, have natural ambient light, you're way ahead of the game. If you can't, you might buy a full spectrum UV bulb and put it in your desk lamp. Better than just fluorescent office lights.
2. Bad quality screens will mess with your eyes.
Avoid old CRTs and low refresh rate screens, low resolution screens, overly bright or overly dim screens. You can verify this with centimeter measurements, just like you can verify the impact of crappy light. And the headaches you won't be getting, if you fix your close-up environment. Test these things, so you know that I'm telling you the truth!
3. Insulin spikes are not great for your eyes.
That big pasta dish and the two Cokes aren't really helping your eyes. It's nowhere near as big of a deal as lenses and close-up time but if you're going to make changes ... might as well know about this.
4. There is a limit to close-up time before you ciliary "locks up".
Compare your peak centimeter after an hour of close-up, to after five hours. Not pretty, those results. I say three hours is the max. Afther that you really need an hour break, of just distance vision. No smartphones, no books. There's a lot more to be said about this subject, but at least this is a start. When you get a drop in centimeter, you pushed your eyes a bit too far.
5. A weekend away from screens and pages makes a big difference.
Just two days in the woods or at the beach, or talking with friends and riding bikes, is a centimeter revelation. Imagine if you lived like that all the time.
Anmerkung: Mit Nummer 5 stimme ich überein. You know how to research about myopia.
A few tiny things, with a huge impact. You know about
scholar.google.com, and you know some of the key medical science keywords. This opens up a world of thousands of studies that you can now find easily. Just knowing to search for "lens-induced myopia", "pseudomyopia", "axial elongation", "near induced transient myopia", "focal plane stimulus", it's a whole new paradigm for you. Now you can no longer easily be sold BS stories. Curious about eye vitamins, eye exercises? You can go read the studies. Is Jake making stuff up? Well, see if he's including clincial study references. And best of all, the whole silly optometrist narrative of "oh hey, it must be genetic" no longer fools you.
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