How to cure myopia
How to cure myopia
How to Cure Myopia
This article was co-authored by Rajesh Khanna, MD. Dr. Rajesh Khanna is a board certified Ophthalmologist and the Founder of Khanna Vision Institute in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Khanna specializes in Lasik, cataract, and refractive eye surgery as well as treatments for presbyopia and keratoconus. Dr. Khanna completed his first Ophthalmology Residency in Mumbai and his second Ophthalmology Residency at SUNY Downstate in New York City. He went on to complete a fellowship training in corneal and refractive surgery from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and a Neurophthalmology fellowship from Kingsbrook Jewish Hospital in New York City. Dr. Khanna is also a voluntary member of the UCLA faculty and is an Internationally recognized top Lasik, presbyopic implants in the eye (PIE), and Refractive vision care specialist. He is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a certified Master of Surgery by the University of Bombay.
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Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a common vision problem that occurs when the eyes have trouble focusing on distant objects. While there’s no true cure, there are a variety of ways to correct nearsightedness. Wearing prescription eyeglasses is the simplest and most common method. Other options include contact lenses and laser eye surgery. Additionally, from eating healthy to resting your eyes, there are easy steps you can take to help slow the progression of myopia.
How To Improve Nearsightedness (Myopia)
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Last Update: 7 February 2022
No one ever asks the question if bad eyesight can be corrected naturally.
For those of us who have bad vision, as soon as we see a hint of blur in our vision we automatically book an appointment with the optician.
Once we make that move, unknowingly, we’ve walked into a net where we remain trapped for a lifetime.
We all know the sequence of events that happen from there onwards.
We live it frequently whereby we visit our optician every year only to find ourselves needing stronger and stronger glasses each time.
For those of us who want to break the cycle how can we do it?
One relatively new option is to consider Lasik Eye Surgery.
But even this method has its problems.
Firstly, not everyone is suitable for the procedure, and secondly, some people still experience their eyes changing after the surgery.
The human body is a wonderful piece of equipment which has amazing ability to adapt, change and heal if we allow it to.
This blog post will explore the possibility that myopia, or near-sightedness, can be corrected naturally and to present some interesting ideas, insights and methods from people who believe it can be.
It’s important to note that this post is not written from the perspective of an eye doctor or medical professional, nor is it medical advice.
This post is merely written to get you thinking about whether myopia can be cured naturally or not.
What do you think?
Is Bad Vision Learned or Inherited?
The number of people suffering from some form of vision impairment is growing rapidly worldwide, including children being prescribed glasses at an increasingly younger age.
Most people just blindly accept that if their eyesight is weakening, they will need glasses or contacts.
In the past, it was just assumed that bad eyesight was an inherited trait, and thus had little to do with a person’s habits or pursuits.
That line of thinking has been proven to be patently false, when it was discovered that childhood myopia in cultures such as the Inuit can arise in a generation, mostly due to overexposure to screens, books, and artificial light.
To witness people who previously had very few eye-related problems suddenly become dependent on glasses is quite tragic, especially when the simple act of reconnecting to the great outdoors could prevent this from happening.
That Friend Everyone Has Who Never Wore his Glasses
I can’t say with confidence that this is true in your case, but for many of us, we all know a person who was prescribed glasses at a young age so that they could see the board clearly in school.
However, he broke the rules in that he never wore them.
Chances are, that this person still does not wear glasses or use any kind of visual aid to this date because he doesn’t really need it.
On the other hand, there was the kid who put them on and found themselves going down that all too familiar route of seeing the diopter figures getting ever larger over time.
In Western culture, all too often people are prescribed glasses as a quick fix for eye problems that could easily be alleviated with a timely application of therapy.
As with so many aspects of modern medicine, the idea is to create a lifelong customer for their products, all the while disingenuously stating that they are only responding to the instant gratification demands of the public.
Can we end this cycle and cure myopia and farsightedness using natural means?
Thankfully, a perfectly natural method exists that has the potential to alleviate and/or correct a variety of vision problems without the aid of corrective lenses.
The Bates Method: Enter Dr. Bates
Dr. William H. Bates was a highly respected ophthalmologist who practised his profession in New York City around the turn of the last century.
Early in his career, he was driven by a desire to discover the root causes of eye disorders, instead of just alleviating the symptoms.
As Dr. Bates perfected his method over the years, he found that the most effective therapy to cure myopia naturally involved relaxing the mind and eye.
His approach didn’t just promote a rigid set of eye exercises and was refreshingly holistic in a rather stiflingly conventional medical era.
While the Bates Method has been proven to help people of all ages with their vision problems, the practice is particularly effective at preventing young children from developing lifelong eye issues.
If children are allowed to live a fairly stress-free, play-filled life, along with having a nutrient-packed diet and plenty of time outdoors in the sunshine, the results will be far fewer incidences of myopia that currently plague our youth.
Ophthalmologist, Heal Thyself!
One interesting anecdote about Dr. Bates and his method relates to an incident in his life that speaks volumes about just how successful his procedures are.
Like most people, by the time he reached his 50’s, Dr. Bates started to have trouble reading and performing near-vision tasks.
He quickly realized that until this dilemma was resolved, he could be seen as a fraud or a fake.
From a medical perspective, this situation took on added significance, as he previously thought that his method only truly applied to myopia.
After a year of intense self-therapy, he was finally able to regain the ability to read microscopic type four inches from his eyes.
He admitted this result took way longer to achieve than most of his patient’s therapies!
The Key Causes of Bad Vision
Dr. Bates emphasised that the first and most important step you can take on your path to better eyesight is to remove the straining habits that are causing your vision to distort.
He further deduced there are three main reasons for strained eyes and subsequent poor eyesight:
Mental Fatigue
This condition tops the list, as the degree to which someone is in a relaxed state has a direct correlation to blurred vision.
It is an often overlooked phenomenon but it is possible that we take our past traumas, stresses and worries and hold it all in our eyes as tension.
For example, during our school years, life can become stressful and our eyes hold the tension of those times.
We never learn to relax the eyes to release that tension we have held onto over the years.
Glasses
Although glasses/contacts necessarily play a vital role in modern eye care, too often they are used as a crutch to correct an end result that years of bad eye habits produced.
Ever stronger prescriptions do not solve the root problem and only create more dependency.
Bad Vision Habits
Most people develop these early in life, and as Dr. Bates personally discovered, are directly related to a child’s classroom activities.
This has only gotten worse for schools now require children to spend much of their time closely perusing digital screens, with no time for proper relief.
The Key to Curing Your Eyesight Naturally
The key to the Bates method and his teaching is to learn to relax the eye muscles.
It is a common misconception that to cure myopia you need to practice eye exercises.
This is not the case according to the Bates method.
It’s all about relaxation. Not exercises.
The key is to learn how to use the eyes in a relaxed manner to release that tension. You are learning relaxed vision habits. These are what you do every moment of every day and releases the strain on the muscles.
The next section will outline some of the main ways that could potentially help cure your myopia naturally.
1. Accept the Blur Back Into Your Life
Since you now know that relaxation is key, the first and most important step is to accept your blurry vision.
If you do not accept your blurry vision then you are fighting against it and that is the antithesis to relaxing.
You need to view the blurriness as a messenger.
The blurriness is trying to teach you something as well as indicate that something is not right.
What is it trying to teach us?
It’s letting us know that we are strained both physically and mentally. We need to learn to start listening to it, to accept it, rather than fighting against it.
If you fight against it by denying it, you will only make things worse.
Squinting and staring also is counterproductive for the same reasons.
When we learn to accept the blur, that is when our friend will leave because at that point we will have learnt to relax which is what the blur has wanted us to do all this time.
2. Throw Out the Glasses
So now that you know that you have to accept the blur, what are some practical steps to help us do so?
The first is by getting rid of your glasses.
When you get rid of your glasses you acknowledge and invite the blur back into your everyday life.
If your myopia is quite severe this can be a very scary thing to do.
If your vision is only one or two diopters then this shouldn’t be too much of a challenge to go about your day without glasses.
If on the other hand your vision is quite impaired without your glasses, then you can use a reduced prescription that doesn’t give you perfect vision.
Getting a reduced prescription is relatively easy these days.
You can ask your optician if they are willing to go along with your quest to cure your myopia naturally and issue you a weaker prescription than normal, however, it’s likely that selecting your own prescription and purchasing them online is far more effective.
This is the more cost-effective route since as your eyesight improves you are likely to have to order new glasses frequently.
What Prescription should I get?
It depends on how much blur you are comfortable with.
Some people may be comfortable with taking on a greater amount of blur whilst others may only want to do more than a half diopter.
However, whatever the amount the most important thing is to welcome back the blur.
If you have astigmatism it is recommended that you take out the axis and cylinder number on your new prescription.
It is also recommended to use the rule of not wearing glasses sensibly.
If you need them for driving then use them, but where possible you want to minimise the time you are using full strength glasses.
3. Ensure Proper and Frequent Blinking
A relaxed eye is one that blinks frequently in a non-forced and natural way.
As we begin to incorporate more technology into our lives and spend more time in front of a screen we automatically begin to blink less.
What we tend to do instead is to stare.
When we stare it means we don’t blink as frequently. We want to keep our eyes open for as long as possible in case we miss something. To relax the eye we need to begin to retrain our eyes to blink in a natural way.
Frequent blinking not only helps our eyes relax, but it also holds a lot of other benefits.
During the day try to catch yourself when you are not blinking or staring.
If you do catch yourself staring, shake yourself out of it and do some purposeful blinking.
You can either, blink rapidly for up to 30 seconds or you can do one blink and squeeze down hard.
With regular self-awareness and forced intervention, your eyes will relearn how to blink naturally.
A healthy eye will blink effortless at a rate of every 2 to 3 seconds. This is the rate you will eventually want to get down to.
But the key here is that it must be natural.
A natural blink lasts 1/40th of a second which is so quick it will not obstruct or interfere with everyday seeing.
4. Try Not To Stare
This point is just a subset of the above point, but it is so important it deserved its own heading.
Do not stare as it can lead to the eyes becoming very tense and tired.
The less a person is fixated and staring at an object, the better off their eyes will be.
Once periodic movement back and forth from different distances is practised, the natural blinking that results will help your eyes immensely.
The difficulty with this step is it’s much easier said than done.
When you stare, you tend to be fixated on whatever it is you are staring at and therefore it is harder to be self-aware that you are staring.
If need be, solicit the help of a friend, relative or spouse to alert you to when you are staring.
The more you can become aware of your own staring habit the quicker you can break it and return to natural blinking.
5. Understand that Not Everything Can be Clear
One of the key points of the Bates method is the concept of central fixation, whereby clarity in our vision is confined to very small areas of focus.
For example, if you hold two fingers at arm’s length in front of your face, and spread them around a foot apart, you should notice that you cannot look at both at the same time and both of them be in focus.
Your eye must shift to one finger to focus on it.
You can also increase the intensity of this experiment further by looking closely at your own fingerprints on your hands.
If you look at your own fingerprints, you can see two lines that are next to each other, but if you focus in on one line, it gets even clearer.
The better your vision is the smaller area your clarity point will be.
This sounds counter-intuitive, however even though someone with good vision will have a smaller clarity point, the clarity within that area will be much clearer.
The lesson here is that for you to improve your vision, you need to understand that your whole field of vision can never be totally clear.
The whole field of vision is important and we should keep it open, but the only point that is clear is your centre of attention, which is what you are looking at.
Allowing that centre to be clear whilst allowing the rest to be blurry is the optimal way to use your eyes.
To fully understand central fixation you must realise that it isn’t something that you do, but it is something that you should be aware of.
You can’t force central fixation. You have to let go of trying to see one point best and open up to the less clear peripheral vision.
Only when you relax like that can central fixation just happen by itself.
6. Be Aware of your Peripheral vision
For us to get the best out of our ability to ‘centrally fixate,’ you need to be constantly aware of your peripheral vision.
You do not need this to be in focus, just be aware of it.
As we spend more time in front of screens, we tend to forget about our peripheral vision more and more.
When you stare at your iPhone, we tend to tunnel down our vision so we only see the screen and not the area around it (such as the ground beneath you). This can also be said of computer screens.
Next time you’re looking at your computer be aware that there are other things around your computer screen, such as the desk, the keyboard, the window next to you etc.
One point to note is that even though you want to be open to your peripheral vision you still want to be only aware of it.
Remember that it will be blurry compared to the point you are focusing on (central fixation).
7. Pay Attention to Detail
When you think of relaxing your eyes you may assume that a relaxed eye is one that isn’t moving, that is completely still and at rest.
However, this isn’t the case at all.
Your eyes love to move.
When they don’t get to move as they like, they tense up, particularly when you are staring.
However, when they are moving naturally it helps with the blood flow and bringing much-needed nutrients to the eyes.
Natural shifting happens 70 to 100 times per second.
You can make your eyes move left and right and do all the exercises you want in all directions, but you can’t consciously force your eyes to move that fast.
The only way they can move that fast is if you start developing an attention to detail where you want to look at the finer details of what you are looking at.
Your eyes work a lot better when you’re aware of this. When you stare you lose your centre of clarity.
To keep the centre point clear, it needs to be in motion (moving eyes purposefully won’t work), which comes from shifting your attention.
Eyes move much more naturally by following your attention. Let your attention lead your eyes.
If you are face to face talking to someone, you can look them in the eyes, but rather than staring, you can focus your attention within that person’s eye and look at the finer details.
8. Give Your Eyes a Rest with Palming
If you have come across the Bates method, this will be the most common technique you would have heard of.
This practice is a prime relaxation method, and when performed in the proper setting, can have a wonderful calming effect that really eases eye strain.
To understand what palming is, watch the video below.
Hands are lightly placed over the eyes so that no light can enter, and you can open your eyes without actually “seeing” anything.
When coupled with exposure to a muted light source (like a desk lamp) palming will give you immediate stress relief.
9. Healthy Breathing & Good Posture
These two concepts are at the core of his method, as one cannot be achieved without the other.
If you are totally relaxed and breathing deeply and abdominally, you will be blessing your eyes with less straining tension and a flood of purifying oxygen.
Out of all the parts of the human body, the brain and the eyes require the most oxygen relative to its size.
If you want to regain your clear vision, you must learn how to breathe naturally.
It’s almost natural to think that, since I am alive, I must be breathing.
This is, of course, true, but a lot of us forget how to breathe naturally like we did when we were very young.
All the stresses, anxieties and worries cause us to adopt very shallow breathing habits.
One way to breathe naturally is to learn to take breaths through the diaphragm rather than the upper chest.
If you are breathing properly your belly should be inflating in and out as opposed to the upper chest.
Proper breathing is synonymous with good posture. Since most of us now sit at our desks for most of the day, we tend to slouch, round our shoulders and develop forward head posture and a rounded upper back.
None of these postures is good for optimal breathing as in these positions the diaphragm and lungs are compromised.
This is when we tend to develop shallow breathing in the upper chest cavity.
If you focus on improving your posture, you will be able to breathe more naturally and thus in return get more oxygen to your eyes.
10. Get Proper Nutrition
Maintaining a proper diet that consists of many diverse sources of vitamins and minerals will do wonders for your eye health.
Since the eyes are one of your bodies’ biggest consumers of energy, particular focus should be placed on muscle-building natural protein.
If you want to improve your eye health try to include as many leafy greens in your diet as you can.
11. Relax the Eyes with ‘The Long Swing’
People who have good vision will notice how the background ‘swings’ as they look from left to right.
Whilst they may not be able to notice it as they go about their day, if you ask them to notice it, they will be able to.
This is not the case for people with strained eyes. They are not aware of how the peripheral vision swings as you look from side to side.
If you aren’t aware of it, here’s a quick way to notice it:
Noticing and being aware of it will help keep your peripheral vision open and reduce strain.
You can bring the swinging sensation into your eyes by using the long swing.
As you do the long swing let your eyes glide through the various points in between each swing, rather than jump.
Good eyesight should be smooth, try not to let them jump or hold onto points.
The room should be shifting behind you. A lot of people don’t see this.
You can see more motion by holding a finger out and seeing the room move behind you.
Then try looking above the finger at where you point (this should be harder). Then remove the finger and try to notice it.
10. Healthy Eyes Need A lot of Light
We saw how a good diet is important for good vision, however, letting the eyes experience the full spectrum of light is just as important if not more important for healthy eyesight.
To make sure your eyes get enough sunlight you want to make sure you get out in the sun.
Where possible take off your sunglasses.
If you live in a region where sunlight is limited particularly in winter, you may want to consider getting an indoor SAD Lamp.
Just remember that the goal is to not look directly in the sun and bright lights to blind ourselves! Be cautious with this.
Relaxation is the Key to Curing your Myopia!
As a child, being told you have to start wearing glasses is one of life’s first bitter disappointments.
Most ophthalmologists will give you a general idea over the ensuing years of checkups how your eyesight will progress, and very seldom does this prognosis include anything about eventual improvement.
You will most likely have to resign yourself to a lifetime of ever stronger corrective lens prescriptions.
The fact is, in most cases, you don’t need to be enslaved to the eyeglasses industry when there is a perfectly safe way to cure myopia naturally according to the Bates Method.
Recommended Resources
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Most of the research from this post has come from the teachings of Esther Joy Van Der Werf from Visionsofjoy.org from one of her video courses on the topic.
She has a book Optimal Eyesight which will provide a more comprehensive explanation of some of the points made in this post.
As was discussed at the beginning of this post, the information here is not designed to be an instruction list that will with certainty cure your eyesight.
Hopefully, it will get you thinking and encourage you to research the topic more thoroughly on your own.
How to Cure Myopia
Introduction: How to Cure Myopia
Hello! this is my first project in instructables. So i’m not very good at english, if anything goes wrong, I’m apologize.
OK! There one day, i saw the article that talk about 6 easy way How to cure myopia, that have method like this.
1. Wear glasses only when you use eyesigh.
2. Look on, look down, look left and look right each 5 sec do every day.
3. Use your paw close your eye 45 min per day.
4. Blink frequently 10 sec per tim.
me : wait wait wait
OK uh this section is hard cause we must use sense to eye everytime, that much stamina is difficult.
So today we will make project from arduino and python that can cure myopia by fix problem of section4. I think myproject wil have mechinelearning that detect myeye. and if i’m not blink in second 10 it will make warning sound to me until i’m blink.
HaHaAHAhAhaha so interesting, let get started!
Step 1: What We Needs?
Supplies :
Equipments :
Step 2: Setup Webcam
This stap i’m just take off the webcam’s frame. cause frame make unwieldy webcam, little heavy and look not cool. But now we’ve coolest webcam.
Step 3: Setup Servo
We need servo to control webcam for turn to detect myeye like tracking everytime. microservo be x-axis and servo be y-axis. Usually when we look servo from top and turn the label correctly, if servo turn max right will be 0 degree and if servo turn max left will be 180 degree. This is important to connect servo microservo and webcam together corectly with gluegun just like my picture because if not corect it may not work. Oh! and make sure you turn webcam up right way.
Step 4: Attached to Arduino
This step just attached servo to arduino with jump wire. And don’t worries we have a easy diagram for follow attached.
NOTE : normal servo is yellow in pin 4 and microservo is green in pin 5.
Step 5: Set Up Speaker and Connect Everything to Your Computer
I don’t know how your speaker look like, but just did like regularly you use speaker or if you don’t have speaker you can use built in speaker, nah i’m not serious.
connect arduino speaker and webcam to your computer already to last step.
Step 6: Coding.
This step you just take mycode from github, yeah just get it.
Step 7: Testing!!
I know myproject isn’t finished but i want you know about progress of thisand this project can’t really Cure myopia. Because this is just joking project and have docter prove 6 easy way How to cure myopia isn’t real.
Finally, i hope you like this project and funny about it. See you soon.
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Hello, I’m Jason and I am going to share with you guys how I started to cure my myopia. This post consists of everything I know from how I found out that my eyesight can be cured, to the period when I ignored the information and applied them one step at a time to where I am today. I also included a video guide where I showed my progress and show how I reduce my myopia.
Summary: To fix your eyesight naturally, you need to do and learn the concept of hormesis. The way you do hormesis in your eyes to make them stronger is called active focusing. Active Focusing is a concept in which you focus your eyes at a certain distance to strengthen your ciliary muscles.
For a full FREE course on how to naturally reduce your myopia, you may find the link in the recommended section at the end of this article.
How to Print Push and Active Focus for Beginners
My Story and How My Myopia Started
So to tell my story on how I got myopia in the first place when I was about 13 yrs old, I got my first eyeglasses. Well, it was from a checkup since I’ve been complaining that I can’t see the board on school clearly. However, I hated it.
Well to be honest with you. At first, I love having those glasses! I was able to see clearly. I was able to read car plates from far away, but that did not last.
So I said, enough is enough. I told the optometrist to help me with this and how can I cure my nearsightedness. I guess you already know their answer.
It is pure genetics. They said. They also told me not to force my eye and to use glasses all the time. They said it would help my eye deal with UV rays or something. I forgot the type of lens they gave me but it gives a green glow (you can’t blame me for that, I wear only contact lenses now). They even advised me to get those fancy transition lens that switches to shades when the sun is up. They say that UV rays are one of the reasons for my Myopia.
Those may be one of the most depressing moments of my life. Imaging I have to wear eyeglasses every day for the rest of my life.
As I got really annoyed with these glasses, remember when they told you that it really hurts a little while using a new pair of glasses? Spoiler alert, that is most of the time the reason why your myopia gets worse and worst. In fact, they have a SCIENTIFIC TERM for that. Lens-induced Myopia.
Anyway, so I started to do what an ordinary millennial will do when we got a query, we check the internet for answers. That’s where I learned about this stuff. Not on one website but on multiple ones. Already feeling lucky that you will get all of these in one article? 🙂 No problem!
Why I decided to write this Article
Of course, I can’t tell them everything because if I do, all the time for our conversation is very precious. I am a very busy person and that is because I focused on self-improvement. Ever since I quit video games, I started to focus on myself. If you are interested in knowing how I started improving me by quitting video games, or you just realized that video game addiction is linked to myopia since you are always looking at screens. Maybe you want a reboot and check my tips in this article: Quitting games
So by writing this, I can just direct them to the article I wrote. Another is just imagined how many people are ignorant of this fact? They believe that this is 100% due to their genetics, and no lifestyle change can remove those eyeglasses which is a pain to wear all the time. Trust me, I still know how that feels. And I feel that it is one of the reasons you might be checking this article out.
I did not reduce my Myopia to 20/20 yet, but I already reduced it by a significant amount. So amazing right? That’s why I want to share this with everybody.
Before I start writing this article, here are some of the things I want you to know:
First, I will be 100% Honest with you guys. This Article will impart even my failures in reducing my Myopia. I might also offend people by saying that the method they are doing did not work for me. So I’m sorry in advance.
Second, I have no ways to prove that I reduced my myopia except by sharing the result of the test I’ve discovered which will be shared below. But I hands-on swear that what I say I true and correct to the best of my abilities.
Fourth, this article is far from perfect. So I urge you to feel free to ask in the comment section below which is a great help for you and me. I can answer your question and make this article better to help more people.
Fifth, there are lots of information in this article that might take you days to fully grasp all of the concepts, principle and practices. I suggest you bookmark this page or save this website’s link for future references.
Sixth, this will be a very long article so if you only want the treatment part without knowing the principles in reducing myopia and what it is, you can just to the How I started Treating Myopia section. BUT, I suggest that you read everything so you know what you are doing.
Last, I am just one guy trying to explain everything. While it is true that I’ve finished my Bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology, I am still not an optometrist. However, I tried to explain everything as clear and accurately as I could.
With those in mind, let us start
Why I wanted to Cure my Myopia
As I said in my story above, I hated how I can’t survive a day without those glasses. Also, I look a lot better without it.
I started using contact lenses but it is quite a hassle since you need to apply and remove in every day, there are lots of infection scares out there with the use of these lenses. However, I’m still using contact lenses right now to improve my eyesight, more on it later.
But the ultimate reason for me wanting to reverse my myopia is that I just dream of a day where I can just jump on my bed, enjoy nature, traveling without having to worry about glasses anymore. Can you feel what I’m feeling when I say that dream? Just imagine the day you go lens-free and enjoy the world as we see it from our 20/20 vision.
That’s right! That’s my ultimate reason. I want to enjoy life without those glasses. Plus, traveling will be a lot easier. I also hate it when moisture starts accumulating on my glasses. Driving with glasses. It makes me feel that my eyes tire easily. I know I’m not the only one out here, am I right?
And I think you also hate it. I know that’s the reason why you’ve cheeked this article. Don’t worry I’m not wasting your time. I know you’ve been reading a lot now. I promise you that what you will get from here is truly worth it.
SHOW AND PROVE TO ME THAT YOU HAVE THE WILL TO CURE YOUR EYES!
What exactly is Myopia?
If you ask an optometrist, they would say that the cause of your myopia is the elongation of your eyeball.
They are absolutely right about that.
When your eye elongates, images started to get blurry since you can’t fully focus the image to your retina.
So why did your eyeball suddenly become elongated? They just blame it on genetics. Like how they explained it to me.
HOWEVER, not me since I am going to introduce you to the root cause of your myopia.
I present you with, ciliary spasm.
What is that Ciliary spasm?
Did you see the ciliary muscle on that eye anatomy above? Remember that it is a muscle and muscles sometimes have spasms.
These muscles hold your lens and form them to help you see clearly. When they spasm, it decreases the quality of the image you see. Can you guess what that is? There is a scientific term for that. It is called Pseudomyopia.
Yup, as in Pseudo (Fake), Myopia (Nearsightedness). So Fake Myopia, Why fake? More on it later.
How can glasses make your eyesight worse?
Do you remember when I told you in my story when I complained that I can’t see the board in the classroom? Thus, I had my first pair of glasses?
That is because growing up, I was addicted to video games. As you already know, I already quit video games. I shared the link to my article on that here. But what happened is that the reason for ciliary spasm is continuous near work. I’m not working but I’ve been looking at screens all night, reading books at school. All near work. Thus, my ciliary muscles did have those spasms.
Now, since your local optometrist did not explain this to you. Surprised? Me either. They gave me glasses as a treatment for my FAKE myopia.
Why is it fake? simple. The reason why I can’t see clearly is that it is a ciliary spasm, not the elongation of my eyeball.
Now that they’ve given me those glasses that they thought I would wear for the rest of my life, those glasses are what caused me to have myopia in the first place. Now, I don’t have pseudomyopia but real myopia. Lens-induced myopia it is.
Now, let me tell you how this happens.
Remember when you have an optometrist check? Darkroom, small letters, try to read the smallest letter?
Here is my question for you to answer, you do realize that you can see better when the sun is up compared to a dark room?
Exactly! Sunlight is good for your eyes. I really wonder why they made those transition lenses. Hmmm.
Note: Do not look directly in the sun. While sunlight is good for your eyesight, looking at it directly is too much to handle for your eyes. Everything that is too much is bad. Always Remember that rule.
Anyway, the sunlight is great as its light can make clearer images to your eyes.
Now, imagine getting a full correction for a dark room and you started using those glasses outside while the sun is out?
Do you see where I’m going? You are being overprescribed. Imagine how stressed your eyes have become because of that. Since you are overprescribed, the eye has to compensate by increasing your myopia since it is really stressed out from that glasses.
Now, do you realize now why you need to wear glasses every day? I felt that pain when I found out about this stuff.
Do you need to throw away my Glasses?
However, for most of us, we should NOT throw away our glasses immediately.
There is a thing called blur adaptation. This means that your brain has already adapted to the extent of your myopia.
Is it bad? DEFINITELY! If your brain thinks that your blurry eyesight is normal, there won’t be any improvements anymore. You should let your brain know that your eyes need to see clearly.
If I’m not going to throw away my glasses, should I change my prescription?
For most of us, we need to change or rather reduce our prescription. Don’t worry. The step-by-step procedure in choosing the right reduction on your prescription will be taught later in the article.
For now, just know that removing your glasses immediately is not a good option. Also, reducing your prescription to a large extent is also not a wise choice.
What are the Options Available for Myopia Treatment?
For a complete list of available myopia treatments, check out this article I’ve made: Myopia Treatments
1. Glasses
These are by far the fastest, most convenient way to treat your myopia. Also, this is the number one reason why our eyesight gets worse and worse. If you do not know why just check the myopia portion above.
However, there is a way of using your glasses or contact lens to improve your vision again. Do not ditch this immediately.
Along with the speed and convenience, glasses can give you lies some disadvantage. First, you will get reliant on it. Which means that you need to wear it forever. I always dreamed of a life without the need of glasses.
Second, the steam on the glass is annoying!
Third, you can’t really swim with them. Especially for a person who loves traveling a lot, this is a pain.
Fourth, it is hard to sleep on sleepovers with glasses. Basically, you have to place them somewhere you could find them immediately. If not, then good luck the next day doing hide and seek.
Fifth, higher prescriptions are really heavy and always cause discomfort for your nose.
I could pile on more but I hope you get my point. Maybe you really hate it too.
Pro tip: This will be a long journey to recover your eyesight. It would be a big help if you use this hatred of yours for eye glasses. This is the reason why I’m still pressing on TBH.
However, I am counting on your extreme desire to live without the need for glasses. That’s why I’m preaching how it sucks.
If you really really hate glasses, you could also treat your myopia with contact lenses. More on it later.
2. Laser or LASIK Surgery
Alright, you still want a faster route. Then you can try LASIK eye surgery.
While it will bring your vision back to 20/20, it is not a great choice. If it is, I’ve already gotten one. But hear me out here.
Lasik is when a laser reshapes your cornea for it to act as a permanent lens for your eyes.
With that comes a lot of disadvantage,
First, it is so expensive!
Second, only 96% of patients get success in regaining their 20/20 eyesight. The 4%? Wasted money.
Third, reshaping your cornea means that it will get thinner. This makes up to tons of cases where their eyes become very sensitive. Thus eye irritation would be your lifetime problem. (This became the result of someone I know that went through the surgery. Also, the reason why I don’t want to risk it.) Just imagine needing eye drops and wearing shades every time to prevent your eyes from irritation.
Fourth, other side effects include: increase sensitivity to glare, seeing halos, difficulty driving at night, fluctuating vision, and dry eyes.
If you want to live with them the rest of your life, or you are just the risk-taker, then you are free to go through the surgery. The results are fast anyway.
3. Bates Method
I’ve used this method but failed.
The reason why it took me a long time to figure out the correct way to improve my vision is that I’ve used this method for a long time expecting results.
While there are cases when you will have sudden clear flashes (eyesight), but it is not permanent. I want something that will make my eyesight 20/20 all the time. Not on random occasions.
The Bates method was proposed in 1891 by an opthalmologist names William Bates.
To make things simple, he proposed that the reason for myopia which is the elongation of your eyeball is from the weakening of the muscles that surround your eye. ( See picture above.)
While that is true for your posture, it is not the same for your eye.
So to solve this, he proposed palming which is a way to relax your surrounding eye muscles for a while.
Note: There are people saying that palming reduced their myopia for a short while. This is TRUE because one of the muscles that is relaxed with the palming process is your ciliary muscles (Study how myopia works above.) Remember that one of the cause of your myopia is ciliary spasm, so he got that right.
So do you need to do palming every day? No. There is another way of relaxing your ciliary muscles which I use and it worked a lot better for me since the bates method gave me no result.
Another thing he got right is that sunlight is great for your eyesight which I already explained why above.
Of course, if Bates proposed that the surrounding muscle is the enemy, then there are also eye exercises which is the next one.
4. Eye Exercises
I’ve also used this method but also failed
Eye yoga, Bates method, Magic 10 minutes daily eye exercise for clear eyesight.
Nobody got time to do them every day. Plus, it doesn’t work. I’m sorry if I offended some people who use this. But it simply didn’t work for me.
As I said, the problem is not the surrounding muscle. It is the ciliary spasm (Pseudomyopia) that later became lens-induced myopia due to your use of over-prescribed glasses.
Plus, putting a time of the day to do this exercise is tedious. No Offense 😛
5. Carrot Juice
I also tried to gulp down and chew tons of carrots.
While it is good for the eyes, with some people swearing that improves their eyesight. Well not for me. While this is a factor in improving your eyesight, you need the right habits which I learned more about after I gulped down tons of carrots for a few months.
What’s great though is my skin became smooth and glowing because of the crazy amount of vitamin A I was consuming that time.
However, there are scientific studies showing that carrots can really help vision. In fact, I went to study research papers behind it and it might really work. If you’re interested in what I’ve found between the link between carrots (Vitamin A) and eyesight, you may check out this article: Can Carrots cure Astigmatism?
6. Hormesis
Hormesis is the one that actually worked for me and what I’ve used.
Finally! Something that worked wonders for me.
For starters, hormesis is placing some stress on your body in order to improve its function.
It is just like putting on some weights to get more muscles.
While currently, your eyes may be weak, doing hormesis, which is basically training your eyes to look farther away, it signals your eyes that it needs to be stronger. Thus, lower prescription in the long run.
However, do not push it too much.
As with stress, too much stress can cause more harm than good.
It is like putting some 110 lbs/50kg or barbel on your first day at the gym. Imagine the disaster that might cause.
Start small and gradual. Do not worry, I am going to teach you how I do hormesis later. You just need to know that this is the only thing that worked for me.
Now can you see why blur adaptation,(which is discussed above) is one of the worse things you could do for your eyesight? If your brain thinks that your myopia is normal, then it is over. We need to always tell your eyes and brain that you need clearer eyesight. That’s how hormesis work.
Know the best part is? It is completely free!
Why I chose the Natural Way by Hormesis?
As I mentioned the reasons above, it is simple.
The side effects of laser eye surgery and the reliance on these glasses just don’t feel right for me. One thing I know through the years is that my body is not an idiot.
It can maintain balance in our body like control sugar levels which justifies intermittent fasting, it can increase our muscle strength if we give it the right stimuli, and it can reverse our myopia or presbyopia with the right stimuli.
The natural way is always the one with minimal to no side effects and is cheaper. That’s what I’m always looking for.
How did I learned about Treating my Myopia Naturally
As an adult in this internet era, I did what a normal person who has queries would do. I went up for an internet search.
Of course, that was a few years ago. I think that was 2014 when I started to get serious about finding out how can I fix this.
At that time, the bates method and the eye yoga exercises are famous ways to cure your eyesight.
As for me, I tried doing these exercises for a few months. To make things short. It did not work out. So I just accepted the fact that I can’t reduce my prescription.
Here are the reasons why I’ve failed that time:
So there you go. Why I failed.
However, a few years later. About 2017, I am really desperate to treat my myopia so I went for another google search on treating Myopia, this time I am researching more and eliminating some sources that Bates method works (You know why I am eliminating them don’t you? They did not work for me.)
I am so lucky to have stumbled on this video
THAT IS THE EYE-OPENER FOR ME!
However, I failed again. More on it later.
How I started Treating my Myopia
To continue, I was excited to see that video that I quickly hoped to incorporate into my habits.
I failed again simply because there is no way to check if I have any improvements.
But basically, what I did to treat my myopia is right. I just do not have the correct way of checking if I’m improving or not. Thus, I lost my motivation.
So how I started?
As the video said, it comes up with active reading on the edge of blur.
Here it is, if you have an eye grade of more than 2.00 diopters (which is 3.25 for me), there is a certain distance where you can read the text but they are a bit blurry.
To explain, your vision has 3 edges.
Now that you understand what these edges are, the general rule is to read on the Edge of blur. To explain where that is, here is a picture below.
Basically, you make it a habit to read on this edge of blur. This will signal your eyes and brain that it needs to get a clearer image. Thus, improving your eyesight.
Note: There may be times that reading too much on the edge of blur will cause some eye strain. That is normal because you are training you eyes to be better and stronger. However, once you felt that. Rest for a while. Like I said, when you start going to a gym, you go do try the light weight before the heavy weights. The important thing is that you are giving the right stress for it to improve.
So basically, I started reading blog, books, subtitles on the edge of blur. However, that is not enough.
As I said, there is no means of knowing if I’m on the right track. I can’t go to an optometrist because they will just give me the largest prescription they can give. So I got no choice but to make this a habit.
Since there is no means of knowing if I’ve improved, I lost my motivation to continue.
That is not until I learned more.
How I manage to get back on track
This is because I found the website called End Myopia. It is a great website since I learned a lot of things. Plus, the community is nice since you are all on the journey to improving your eyesight. You may check it out. I can tell you that it helped me tons and it is because of what I learned there that I pressed on.
Plus, I learned more about eyesight that I incorporated some more habits with print pushing (reading on the edge of blur). Thus, I got significant results.
It is also a great plus that I can now measure my eye grade and put the correct prescription.
Things I did to Lessen my Myopia for Good
Now that we are on the good part, I have explained the main focus of this method. It is to give some stress to my eyes to tell it to improve.
That is the basic concept. However, there are tons of ways to get it to the next level other than print pushing.
So here are the things I did to lessen my Myopia!
1. Know your Correct Eye Grade
This is the first and one of the most important steps.
The reason why I failed twice on this journey is that I have no means of knowing what is my eye grade.
To know your eye grade, here are the things you need.
You need the centimeter measurement because it will be the one you will use in measuring your eye grade.
I do suggest you use this measuring tape. It is lightweight, cheap, and easy to carry so you can check your eye grade anywhere. Here is the link: Cloth Measuring Tape
Now, use this link to measure your eye grade: Measure your eye grade
Just enter the distance you’ve measured from the word Focus to your eyes on the EDGE OF BLUR. Remember to have a separate measurement for each eye.
Here are some of the measurements I have just for example:
Now, to the next step.
2. Reduced Prescription
Some people over-complicate things when it comes to reducing prescriptions so here is my rule.
WHATEVER YOUR MEASUREMENT IS ON NUMBER ONE, SUBTRACT 0.50 DIOPTERS.
For a more detailed guide on how reduced lenses work, you may check out this article: What is Reduced Lens Method
Basically, you reduce your prescription to induce a slight blur. Now that you have a blur, you can finally tell your brain that it still needs to improve via hormesis.
I hope you get what I mean.
Combining this will give you the best amount of hormesis for close-up work and looking far away. Just remember to always read on the edge of blur.
Now let’s get to the real fun part.
Once you start reading on the edge of blur, try to force your eyes into reading the text clearly. You will notice that after staring at it for some time, the text will become clearer.
This is called active focusing. This is where you will force your eyes to make your current Edge of blur become the edge of focus. This is the best exercise in my opinion to work on your eye.
Do note that active focusing is not the same as lowering your eyelids so you can see more. Feel the power of your ciliary muscles on the eye working to make the text clearer. I promise you that you would be surprised that your eyes can do that.
4. Print Pushing
Now that we are on the print pushing part, it is simply reading a book, blog, or whatever it is on the edge of blur. By now, you already know how to do it.
But there is a problem.
You would look like an old man with presbyopia reading a newspaper.
Is there a solution? There is. However, some people recommend it, some people don’t. For me, I’m doing it but I tell you that it strains your eye even more.
Putting up reading glasses will do the trick. They are the reverse of your eyeglasses for myopia. In fact, the reading glasses are called PLUS LENSES.
Remember your eye prescription? It is always on the negative (-) diopters. Now, if you add some plus lenses. It would feel like you’ve gained some more myopia.
In short, negative diopters reduce your myopia, positive lenses increase it while you wear them.
This will make you read on a closer range, which is quite easier rather than stretching your arms just to read a book.
So if you have low myopia, you can switch to plus lenses to reduce the distance of the edge of blur. This way, you can start print pushing again.
Now, when I read a book, I read on the edge of blur. When I check out a site, I am always on the edge of blur.
Reading a lot gives more stress to signal your eyes that it needs to improve more.
However, do not ever do it. There is such thing as overwork. We are here to improve your eyesight not make it worse.
Just remember the general rule. When your eyes feel tired, rest.
6. Look far away
As I’ve said, reading on close up is only part of the equation for your myopia. The reason for your reduced prescription is to focus and still read on the edge of blur on far away objects.
Look at the clouds, trees, Street signs, or whatever it is. Tell your brain that you need to see far objects clearly. Combine this with print pushing then you have what it takes to improve.
I make it a rule to look far away, for at least an hour each day.
Now, there is a bonus I would like to share
Remember when I told you that I use contact lenses? If I wear one, I can’t do print pushing on close-up work right? No, I have a trick.
Remember how contact lenses are Negative lenses and reading glasses are Positive lenses? Check this out.
I currently have an eye grade of 1.75.
Now, by computing, I have a 0.50 eye grade with my contact lenses. Perfect for looking far away. (1.75 – 1.25 = 0.50)
I need to get my eye grade to 2.00 so I can print push on close-up work such as when writing this Article. Thus, I’m wearing a plus lens of +1.50.
Check this out, with contact lenses on, I have an eye grade of 0.50. Plus +1.50 lens (0.50+1.50), I now have 2.00 eye grade.
Now, I can do print pushing while writing this article.
So can you improve your eyesight with contact lenses? Definitely!
The Secret Ingredients to Succeed
It’s all about the right habits, mindset that makes it FUN
Remember, that it took years to get your eyesight work. It is reasonable that it will also take a long time for it to get back to 20/20.
As for my past failures. There is one reason why I still failed with the right information.
Making print pushing and hormesis as a habit for your eye improvement is the most important and the secret sauce to your success.
Lose this, then you are done.
Everything you read, print push. Look far away, reduced prescription. Once this became your habit, you are on the right track.
Last is motivation.
Take notes on your eye measurement, there might be times that you will not improve for months. It is alright, that is normal.
Just continue and record them.
One day, with your 20/20 vision, you can check your notebook and look back on what you did to improve yourself.A great story to tell your friends and family how you magically cured your eyesight without supplements, laser surgery or any other future ways of improving eyesight.
Give yourself a pat for taking your time reading this very long article, which by the way is oversimplified IMO.
However, I really tried to put the most relevant information in this article for everybody. By this part, I have already explained how to cure your myopia.
If you are still interested, you may continue reading. The next parts are what to take note for, final verdict and the FAQ.
Remember to comment down below! If you have successfully reduced your diopters and want to share something to the people here, feel free to share them. 🙂
Things to note when taking the natural way to cure myopia
1. It will take time
Unlike Lasik surgery and eyeglasses, it will take you months to years depending on the degree of your myopia to turn it back to 20/20 again.
As I said, it is not surprising considering that it took years for your eyes to be that way.
Do not lose hope. There are a lot of people who successfully cured their myopia. One day, you would too. Just stick with the habit and I’m sure that you will get there.
2. It might get Frustrating
Yes, it is frustrating to see that you are not improving at the rate that you want.
However, are you going to quit just like that?
If you really want to improve your eyesight. Stick to it. Continue.
Imagine the day you will be free from your glasses. Imagine how happy you would be to see that day.
That’s also what I think to keep me going on this journey.
3. You will sometimes get headaches
As I said, Print pushing or Active focusing is like an exercise to your eyes.
By putting stress, there will be times that your eyes will be uncomfortable. There will be headaches and teary eyes which I also experienced.
Remember to rest. Do not overdo it.
Most importantly, CONTINUE!
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
4. It is hard to Incorporate the Habit especially when Reading
Reading on the edge of blur is uncomfortable for your brain and eyes. it doesn’t get the crisp clear image that your brain wants.
That’s why you can sometimes slip and read on the edge of readability. When you do come back to your senses, read again on the edge of blur.
Just like a new habit, it would take a lot of hard work to make it one.
But once it becomes a habit, it would be a breeze.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
1. Do I really need to do all the things you have recommended to improve my vision?
No, you do not need to gulp down tons of carrot juice. Although it helps a lot especially on night blindness, you can successfully improve your vision just by hormesis alone.
But anyways, after putting these things into your habits, it will just feel normal to print push and active focus.
2. If there is ONE thing I could change in my lifestyle to improve my vision, what it is?
In my opinion, if there is one thing you could do to improve your eyesight from my tips above, it would be the reduction of your prescription.
Granted that the results will be much slower, it is still for me the most significant thing you do. DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR GLASSES. Reduced prescription is key
3. Would the result be faster if I will just drop like 1.0 diopters immediately?
No, as I said, we do not want blur adaptation where your brain thinks that the blur you have is normal.
We should always tell our brains that we need to improve our eyesight by focusing on the edge of blur and turn it into the edge of focus as much as possible.
4. I hate reading. Can I still improve my vision?
Well, I get this a lot.
If you hate reading, you could just do the reduced prescription and make sure to look far away. Look at the clouds, trees, street signs. The important thing is that you have to give your eyes that stress(Hormesis) for it to improve.
Or if you are using social media (which I do not think you hate) or browsing the internet, go to the edge of blur.
5. My work involves looking at close up range all the time, can I still improve my vision?
I have a blog that needs exactly a lot of close-up work. Active focusing on the edge of blur is key.
Remember to use reduced prescription when going outside for a walk outside. Once again, we do not want blur adaptation.
So do not lose hope, you can still improve your vision.
6. I don’t get results. Am I doing something wrong?
It took years for your eyes to become that way. So it is also not surprising to improve slow. Don’t get frustrated. Just put these unto your habits and you are on the right track.
7. I do not have the same prescription for both my eyes, can this method work? or Only one of my eye has myopia, can this method work?
Yes, I said to have a separate measurement for both eyes. That is because not all of us are lucky to have the same prescription.
The key take here is to reduce 0.50 on whatever the prescription is on the specific eye.
8. What is the Fastest Way to Cure Myopia
The fastest way to cure myopia is actually to do eye surgery. There might be some risks to it and expensive but it is the fastest and sure fire way to fix your eyesight.
But if you are looking for a natural way of curing your eyesight, there is only one thing I recommend after trying tons of methods, and that is active focusing.
9. How can I cure Myopia Naturally and Fast
The only natural way that can improve your vision fast (mine was only 2 weeks) is active focusing. It forces your eyes to fix themselves in a natural way. If you want to improve your eyesight easily and really fast, you may also relax your ciliary eye muscles.
This can be done by:
10. How can I improve my eyesight in 7 days
This is how you can improve your eyesight in 7 days or even less:
I made a guide for improving your eyesight fast here is the link: Improve Your Eyesight in 7 Days: A Step by Step Guide
11. Can Myopia Improve?
Myopia can be improved, there are numerous people who successfully reduced their myopia or some even got to 20/20 without surgery. It is a matter of having good habits to take care of your eyes and preventing things that harm them.
If you are looking for proof of people who have improved their eyesight, I am one of them. Some comments down below also shared their story. Also, there are comments in my YouTube Channel about their successes on doing active focusing, print pushing, and lens reduction therapy.
12. Can Eye Exercises Reduce Myopia
To conclude, there are numerous studies that say eye exercises can’t reduce myopia because the target of eye exercises is actually wrong. If you want to reduce myopia, you need to strengthen your ciliary muscles inside the eye. Not the muscles around the eyes which eye exercises focus on.
13. Can Sunlight Reduce Myopia?
According to researchers from Ohio State University Center, Exposure to UVB Rays from the Sun reduced the number of nearsighted kids. The kids who spend time outdoors are less likely to need glasses than kids who don’t get enough sunlight.
Study: Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science. “Scientists study effects of sunlight to reduce number of nearsighted kids.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 November 2014.
14. Can myopia be cured by yoga?
There is no scientific evidence that the eyes can be cured by Yoga. In fact, eye yoga targets a different set of muscles to fix your eyesight.
A 2016 study that tested palming, blinking, sideways viewing, front and sideways viewing, rotational viewing, up and down viewing, preliminary nose tip gazing, and near and distant viewing on students revealed that eye yoga can only help with eye fatigue but not myopia itself.
Thus, Eye Yoga is perfect for eye relaxation but not for curing your eyesight.
Study: “Effects of yogic eye exercises on eye fatigue in undergraduate nursing students”, Sang-Dol Kim, 28 Jun 2016.
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I believe that tools are essential, especially in improving our lifestyle. Because I am a minimalist, I only buy things that add value to my life.
In this part, I will give you the tools I use for improving my eyesight.
Myopia Calculator
First, let’s start with something free. The Myopia Calculator is something I’ve personally made for my viewers.
Go to the Myopia Calculator I’ve coded, which will give you the details you need to start print pushing and active focusing.
I also have video instructions in that blog post, making it easier to use the tool.
Active Focusing Full Course!
So you want to do active focusing but don’t know how? I got you covered with a completely free course!
My Story
Alright, who am I giving tips on how to reduce your eye grade? What’s my story?
YouTube
Another free tool where you can learn more about eyesight is on YouTube.
While I do not make eyesight videos anymore, many YouTubers are out there that teach how to reduce your eyesight.
However, I am not one of them.
Of course, if you want to follow me, you can find my Channel by clicking the button below.
Tape Measure
Have a suitable measuring device. I don’t recommend cloth or simple tape measures since you must always stretch it hard when measuring.
Get a simple heavy-duty tape measure since you need to pull it out. You can also see that I’m using this measuring device in my videos.
Blue Light Glasses
Okay, one of the things you will learn from me is that preventing eye strain means getting enough sleep. Guess what? Blue light affects our sleep a lot.
That’s why I recommend wearing Blue Light Glasses at night about 2 hours before bedtime. That way, you will be sleepy enough and have a good night of sleep.
I use a yellow-colored one since it blocks the majority of blue light.
Reading Glasses/ Positive Lens
But always get a good quality pair of these glasses since low-quality pair of positive lenses might not be very accurate.
Furthermore, some of these cheap pairs are not optical grade, which means their surface is not smooth. Non-optical grade glasses confuse the eyes.
If you are in the last stages of print pushing (-2.00 below), don’t waste your efforts by having a low-quality positive lens.
While there is a simple test for checking positive lens quality, it would be better to ensure that you have a high-quality lens.
Negative Lens/ Myopia Glasses
This is one of the problems of most of my viewers; however, I’m sorry, but as of this time, I can’t give you recommendations on where to buy a pair online.
I am just lucky to befriend an optometrist who helped me get the grade I want. Let’s see in the future if I find anyone that would offer to help us get one online.
Of course, I will check their quality myself before recommending anything.
If you know someone who can help the community, go to my contact page and email me.
How to Reduce Myopia Naturally
This article was co-authored by Rajesh Khanna, MD. Dr. Rajesh Khanna is a board certified Ophthalmologist and the Founder of Khanna Vision Institute in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Khanna specializes in Lasik, cataract, and refractive eye surgery as well as treatments for presbyopia and keratoconus. Dr. Khanna completed his first Ophthalmology Residency in Mumbai and his second Ophthalmology Residency at SUNY Downstate in New York City. He went on to complete a fellowship training in corneal and refractive surgery from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and a Neurophthalmology fellowship from Kingsbrook Jewish Hospital in New York City. Dr. Khanna is also a voluntary member of the UCLA faculty and is an Internationally recognized top Lasik, presbyopic implants in the eye (PIE), and Refractive vision care specialist. He is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a certified Master of Surgery by the University of Bombay.
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Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a common condition that causes faraway objects to appear out of focus. The best course of action for those with myopia is to wear glasses or contact lenses as prescribed by a doctor. Trying to focus on far-away objects without corrective lenses can quickly worsen your myopia. However, there are some steps you can take to slow down or stop the progression of myopia, including spending time outside, eating healthy foods, and reducing the amount of time you spend reading or looking at screens.