How to Improve Eyesight Naturally - Fact vs Fiction?

Can you improve eyesight naturally? Can you do eye exercises to improve vision? In this video, Dr. Allen reviews eyesight improvement theories to end myopia. Learn more about eyes and vision here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaiYk5upd7-bfbM
About This Video: Are there eye exercises for stronger vision? Can you improve eyesight naturally? In this video, Joseph J. Allen, OD FAAO from Doctor Eye Health reviews several myopia cure theories from the internet. If you are curious about how to improve eyesight and are questioning the scientific validity of these theories, please consult your local eye care professional about your eye health - as these theories are not a replacement for medical treatment.
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Many people have asked me over the years about how to improve eyesight without glasses, but I have refrained from commenting as this is a pretty loaded topic. To prepare for this video, I have read multiple books on eye training and active focus theories such as endmyopia, all in an effort to give a more detailed explanation of what these "myopia cure" theories suggest and teach. Unfortunately, many of the theories such as the Bates Method are outdated and carry little scientific support.
Eyesight is extremely complex and involves much more coordination between the eyes and the brain than many sources lead people to believe. I urge anyone to read and investigate these theories with some level of skepticism and to always consult your local eye care provider regarding all matters pertaining to your eye health.
Lifestyle Recommendations for young children by the World Health Organizaton.
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Clinical Management of Binocular Vision
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[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Eye Health Question! - Have you ever experienced improved vision with eye exercises or vision therapy of some kind? What are your thoughts?

[@populigaudeamus6299]

Glad to see your gorgeous face again. Have you ever heard of a program called EyeQ? Can those eye excersises really help to speed read?

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

@@populigaudeamus6299 Thanks for the comment! I have not heard of EyeQ. But I will look into it. Thanks for the tip!

[@populigaudeamus6299]

@@DoctorEyeHealth I appreciate your integrity and desire to educate people. I wish you and yours much success and all the happiness in the world. Please stay safe. The world is a better place with you in it.

[@elliepark7712]

No eye exercise but I saw my ophthalmologist yesterday and after 3 months of working from home due to Covid & not wearing my contacts at all, my vision improved enough to need new contacts & new glasses! She said it was because my eyes had a chance to relax enough to improve the vision. Fascinating stuff!

[@yackobjoseph514]

Just make a video about push printing

[@manibeautyhub9673]

Who's the kid who loves to wear glasses as a kid And regrets it now It's me 😭😭

[@okno2277]

ME! MY PARENTS WON’T LET ME WEAR EYE LENSES 😭😭

[@naftaliayukabredyaamara5428]

ME😭😭😭 I WANT IT BACK NOWWW

[@jojoplayz8424]

I THOUGHT IT WAS COOL NOW I LOOK UGLY AF

[@joelshaiju9797]

Same

[@DalandaD.]

I LITERALLY CANT SEE ANYTHING WITHOUT GLASSES I LOST MINE LIKe 2 DAYS AGO AND I REALLY SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO MY PARENTS WHEN I WAS YOUNGER

[@purrasmamadascuhh2508]

Online school being in the computer all day is affecting my eyes and am getting blinder

[@ameeraahmed491]

Jocelyn I’m -2.5 aswell I was -2.25 b4 :/

[@johnangeloso9353]

same

[@jazlynevangeli1844]

@@jocelyn3422 IKR

[@lambgaming1347]

@@jocelyn3422 Only slightly for me :(

[@lambgaming1347]

Same... I came here because of that. I already have glasses and I take care of my eyes, but online school is just awful for my eyes and theres nothing I can do about it to make this stop making my eyes worse, cause we have to do school. :(

[@AF-bp9hg]

16:03 final answer saved yall 18 minutes. Edit: He just says the theories do nothing

[@Northcommercial]

Thanks👍🏼 🙏🏼

[@otiebrown9999]

Prevention, is none of these things.

[@chelleapit5852]

hooooo thank you

[@Chicalo23]

Thanks!

[@rockcoregaming9752]

thankyou you kind fucking life saving human.

[@chefcantcook7966]

Man this is when I wish the " eating carrots are good for you eyes" actually worked

[@sephoraconsean6278]

The first thing I thought when I realised my eyesight was not good 🙂

[@hihehe1517]

@@chefcantcook7966 Y'all I'm feeling the same thing, I can't even see far things even with my glasses, should I change my glasses. Been using the same ones for 3 years.

[@magicaldragon4673]

@@hihehe1517 yes you should, especially since it's been 3 years and they are not enough for you to see

[@hihehe1517]

@@magicaldragon4673 Well I did change my glasses a month ago, and it was surprisingly higher than the old ones. But now that I found EM I actually reduced it back. It is a fact to inprove eyesight naturally.

[@magicaldragon4673]

@@hihehe1517 ahh good to know

[@josephsmith6710]

Does wearing glasses make you go more short sighted? I feel like my eye sight is much worse since wearing glasses.

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

There are some studies that do indicate glasses/contacts may contribute to needing stronger glasses and that is why there is so much study in myopia control right now. However, we also see many people who develop worsening nearsightedness even without EVER wearing glasses. So while it may play a role - it is likely a smaller role and certainly not the only cause. I personal feel lifestyle factors and genetics play a much larger role. I hope to have some more videos on this topic soon. Thanks for watching!

[@josephsmith6710]

Doctor Eye Health thank you for the reply! When you say life style, do you think that using computers, iPads, phones a lot could contribute. I definitely noticed my eye sight getting worse when I got an iPad, however I was also about 16 so it could have been puberty.

[@austinharlow8672]

Joseph Smith most eye doctors give you “stronger prescriptions” than needed. They think theyre doing you a favor since you can see maybe even better than 20/20! but they realize your eye accommodates and progresses myopia.

[@Lord_Joseph17]

Yes... sit in a wheelchair for a month then try to walk. Muscles are muscles. Why would a eye treatment MD want to sell you self healing wherever.

[@DoctorRadz]

JOE FUGALLO HealingIsEasy does doing sit ups make your food digest faster? There are several different types of muscles in the body and eye. You can do eye exercises until the cows come home and you won’t improve your vision. However, you’re welcome to try if believe it’s a conspiracy.

[@kakazu4454]

Dude i was able to see like everything and now i cant even look at the tv subtitles

[@senseisokodame9988]

What's bad is, all of it happened kinda overnight ☹️☹️ like, I was able to read subs the day before, suddenly the next day I notice I fucked up my vision...it wasn't gradual....It came without any warning 😭😭😭

[@yoongi7854]

Sensei Soko Dame FR idk why im scared tho my eye sight is getting so much worst

[@senseisokodame9988]

@@yoongi7854 Bro, use night vision in your cellphone, ALL THE Time, ik it sounds weird but using dim screen (not too dim) has actually helped my eyes not become tired so often....And plz :) give up on staring at phone at night.... I've given it up myself, even if it didn't get better, at least it stayed the same.... my eyes could've gone worse in the lockdown, if I stayed awake this whole time

[@yoongi7854]

Sensei Soko Dame ah ty for the advice

[@alpaq9722]

😭 i can feel the pain badly and deeply 😭😭😭

[@pruefus4113]

Can you improve eyesight naturally? Video: "No"

[@otiebrown9999]

Can you avoid myopia entry? Yes.

[@yelloe]

@@swp5528 everything is a business. Local govt, banks, hospitals. I somewhat dont mind it, but I hope they all tell the truth when giving information as well as not holding out on us.

[@sandraazucar493]

Yes you can. It worked for me. Start by reducing your glasses use and choose weaker lenses as you go along. Do the exercises. Reduce your sugar intake. I am now 20/20, no surgery, no glasses.

[@wxvor]

@@sandraazucar493 how long did u use glasses

[@sobster123]

@@sandraazucar493 sugar?!!!!

[@audiopie]

I miss my old eyes 😭😭 i want to have a lasick surgery but it might go back

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Are you not a glasses or contact lenses fan?

[@saileshkapur5804]

@@DoctorEyeHealth glasses

[@lana8314]

@@BrotherMarkinter May I know how old were you when you had done Lasik?🙏

[@BrotherMarkinter]

@@lana8314 I was 23 when I had Lasik done!

[@lana8314]

@@BrotherMarkinter Thanks so much! Sorry for bothering you again, but may I know what was your prescription? I'm 15 now and have eye power. Can I take Lasik at about 19?

[@canttouchthefluff]

me;a blind person: I see.

[@miety111]

How do you write?

[@rodrigo6flame603]

Wild Bunch there’s a special way for them to write, but i forgot

[@idk-il6gn]

@@rodrigo6flame603 thats braille but how do they type? On phone where there is no braille?

[@thespeedingturtle]

@@idk-il6gn i myself have remembered the keyboard to where i can write paragraphs with My eyes closed, im guessing hes doing thr same.

[@emmi5815]

that felt like dark humor-

[@viviensterling8936]

I fully respect eye doctors and the work they do. I am a middle aged woman. On a number of occasions over the years, I was certain that I needed reading glasses as I was holding books further and further away. On each occasion I have used simple eye exercises, taking about 5 minutes a day for a week or so and my reading vision returns. I do them periodically for maintenance. I have had numerous visits with the opticians. They don't know that I do these exercises, but they tell me that whatever I am doing to keep doing it. I don't wear any glasses at all and never had a prescription for one. My brother is over 60 years old and has been wearing reading glasses for a few years. He told me last week that he hasn't needed his glasses for the last two years, as, to my surprise, he had been doing simple eye exercises in the morning while lying in bed.

[@motto666]

Vivien, what type of eye exercise you did to cure your farsighted?

[@KA_19.]

what did you do?

[@stevemarton5620]

@@KA_19. Cover one eye, stick your thumb out maybe 10" in front of you, and keep alternating focus between your thumb and something far away. Switch eyes. Maybe a minute per eye every few days. That's all I did as a kid and got rid of my 2.5 bifocals. Now that I'm 43 my far sightedness is getting worse. But I also don't exercise almost ever. Need to get back into it, which is why I came on here to check out some techniques. But likely just the near-far focus is all you need.

[@KA_19.]

thanks! Do i need to switch eyes or can i just leave both eyes open and do it? And will this work if i am nearsighted? @@stevemarton5620

[@adysonarao2568]

Teacher : please try your best to stay away from screens school : on screen us : confused

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Haha I know the feeling

[@TheClickbaiterA]

Me who've always been an introvert: *pathetic*

[@dladaabsladi877]

@mitzy devices don't affect ur eyesight this what is the fact u are no rest for your eyes

[@dladaabsladi877]

@{ Coffee } the sun has blue light that's is why its hard to sleep in morning also the damage is minimal and is mainly eye irritation and eye annoyance

[@zimnium1]

@@dladaabsladi877 Please tell this to my parents I beg of you!

[@natlie7994]

Does anyone else feel ashamed to wear glasses or eye contacts at such a young age? I definitely do since my family always I’m “blind” or at least every time we go to the eye doctor. I do admit that I spent majority of my life on screens at least when I was 7-14 (still 14 but trying to take better care of my eyes). But I can’t help having this thought in my head how my family never really payed attention to me or got me into extra curricular activities to avoid these type of things...so I really don’t see why I should be completely blamed. Especially when I was ignored and abused as a young child so I would mainly spend time on my phone. Sorry for the rant I’m just really worried right now because I don’t want to go actually blind at a young age like my 20’s or 40’s, I get really close to mental breakdowns just thinking about it. Let me know if I’m not the only one, or your opinions

[@natlie7994]

I don’t mean to make this sound for attention, personally I think teens, young adults, and adults are more open about their abusive pasts now a days so I also think it’s normal to be confident enough to be open about this

[@cristhebrown2908]

I don't feel ashamed I look 1X better without my glasses but I think it's time to remove my glasses

[@maryonottathil6102]

I totally get what you are saying and its mindblowing for me because i have the same problem as you

[@aishwarya7173]

You're not alone buddy.

[@engineeruk8667]

@@natlie7994 My left eye is not very good at all, in fact I am not able to do what I always wanted to do which was to be a commercial pilot and up to maybe the last year or so I felt ashamed and a waste of space but you have to look at life with more than one perspective and look at what you CAN do to make your life better. Much like yourself I spend a lot of time staring at a screen - there is no scientific proof that screens make your eyesight worse, however if you stare too long you can get dry eyes and feel perhaps dizzy and get eye strain. The best way to deal with this is to take regular breaks from the screen and make sure that during the day you utilize your ability to look at things close and far away from you to ensure you keep your eyes strong and healthy. screens make your eyes lazy and you don't really have to look far or focus much. it's basically like staring at a fancy wall. But to answer your initial question, No, I don't feel ashamed, I have learnt to accept it and look at the things I CAN do and to be proud of what I do. So keep your head up.

[@NeuKrofta]

I've been exercising my eyes since I was a kid, looking out the school window focusing in and out and being outside trying to focus on things far away. I had 20/20, now I have 20/14. It definitely works with practice and patience. The eye is a muscle like anything else.

[@Ishmam_Dhrubo]

Nope the eye isn't just a muscle..... You had problems with you muscles around your eyes... So you just worked on those muscles to function better. However for your eyes, there is no such thing. People with Astigmatism, Myopia, Hypermetropia cannot improve their eyesight with exercises.... They either need glasses, lenses or LASIK/PRK. So your situation is very different

[@NeuKrofta]

@@Ishmam_Dhrubo Firstly, I didn't say the eye is "just" a muscle. Secondly, your examples are exceptions and not the standard for healthy eyesight. And thirdly, never did I say practicing focusing your eyes will somehow cure any of those handicaps. So your counter argument is very different and irrelevant.

[@archockencanto1645]

@@Ishmam_Dhrubo I have improved using Active Focus. Keep believing in your nonsense that improvement is impossible 😂

[@hardyharent1047]

@@archockencanto1645 do you have or had one of the things he mentioned?( astigmatism, myopia, Hypermetropia)I’m trying to fix my eyesight also

[@archockencanto1645]

@@hardyharent1047 I have lens induced Myopia and lens induced astigmatism. If they're not lens induced and due to some diseases or your genetics, then it's not fixable. I've been working on improving Myopia first. Here were my numbers before I started. Left -3.25 SPH 1.00 CYL Right - 4.25SPH 0.75 CYL Right now they are 2.5SPH left and 3.25 SPH right. Same CYL (although I haven't measured to be fair, I won't be surprised if they've also dropped by 0.25 or so). I started roughly 4-5 months ago. Although the bulk of the improvement has happened after switching my glasses which has been around 2 month ago. I've had two changes firstly of a 0.5 diopter reduction in both spheres and then of a 0.25 and 0.5 reduction on left and right respectively. And, I will say that I'm very young right now and my eyes have been extremely good before I got glasses so this rate of improvement isn't possible for most I'd assume. Moreover I've only had glasses for around 7 years. And, all that while I've had the instinct to avoid wearing glasses whenever possible because I assumed they were bad for the eyes (that was a good bet :)) Go with what Mr Steiner says of around 0.25 reduction every 2-3 months or so. Although you can start with a 0.5 reduction for the first time because you have over prescribed glasses so the actual reduction there is only 0.25 or so. And of course, active focus is key. That's all I did, Reduce the power of glasses, be outside more and do active focus outside. At my current rate I'm aiming to be free of glasses by the time I'm 19 in roughly 1.5 years. The last diopter does take a serious amount of effort to go away or so I've heard. Also, NEVER go monkey mode and reduce things by one diopter or so. And never touch two different planes at the same time, like Cylinder values (astigmatism) and Spherical values (Myopia). Your eyes are very amazing but they're not that amazing that they can change that rapidly in multiple aspects. Don't risk destroying them more. Specially if you're older. Also another tip, buy glasses in bulk from Zenni, if you don't mind looking dumb, you can get ones for 10 bucks a piece. Although the decent looking ones will cost you about £15-20. That's still years cheaper than whatever scam goes on in optical stores. Also, always go for Anti reflective/glare coating. You don't want to put more strain on your eyes whilst you're messing them up by continuously changing your glasses. And obviously I probably don't need to say this, but stop using devices a lot. 4-5 hours is more than enough. And take breaks every hour or so for 5-10 mins and look at something outside your house to restore the distance vision and relax the ciliary muscle. And please don't ask me 'how to fix my eyes' as I've seen many... Idiots asking in these comments even though Jake has said everything that needs to be said, that's it. There's no magic. You just have to: -get new glasses -stop destroying your eyes using devices or books. -active focus (on something in the distance)

[@pieceaisa5046]

i literally get so pissed off by how bad my prescription is

[@otiebrown9999]

Correct.

[@zest1160]

What is the thickness

[@SWEAR2CARE]

come on then ,,Don't listen to this Quack ,,,Listen to yourself...that is your intuition and instincts telling you to feel for yourself ... it will not hurt to try ,,,,,scale down,,,gradually get your eyes stronger wearing less and less strength .. what are you waiting for? ...GROW A PAIR!

[@pieceaisa5046]

@@SWEAR2CARE that’s what i’ve been doing. my glasses aren’t strong enough for me to see basically anything clearly anymore but i’m keeping them because i don’t want my sight to get worse

[@pieceaisa5046]

@@zest1160 it’s thick -5 prescription but my eyes are -6 in each eye

[@mrteejay7037]

Jack Steiner used to have -5 He reversed it through reduced lens therapy and never wears glasses anymore.

[@c.k.7361]

What is reduced lens therapy..?? Thank you.. Regards from greece :)

[@c.k.7361]

@@paramjeetthakkar7088 Ok..i will.. Many thanks..!! :)

[@zaynmalik2.042]

I think that guy is selling his book. He is fake. Does anyone ever cured their myopia by his method except for the screenshot he post on his website.

[@paramjeetthakkar7088]

@@zaynmalik2.042 he doesn't have any book 😅

[@kennethaguilar4146]

I've been using Active Focusing for a year and shokingly, within that year, my vision somehow became better. Active focusing became a habit for me and at December 2019, I got my eye doctor to check on me and he himself became shock also because my 20/400 became 20/50. And take note, I got my glasses since I was 12 and now, I'm 17. So for me, this method suits me and works 100%, though it's a slow process but as long as it's making my myopia disappear then so be it...

[@NoxiousNova]

The body adapts to what you give it. If you give it close up books a lot, it will adapt to reading close up. You give it glasses and it adapts to the glasses. Active focus isn't only about loosening the ciliary muscles of the eyes as you've said. The reason the eyedrops don't give a myopic person clear vision instantly is because the eye is still in the elongated shape it has changed to. It takes time, but eventually you can get the eyes back to 20/20 with the proper stimulus. simple.

[@maasha8133]

English please? ;_;

[@yeetheet1869]

Any suggestions on what exercises?

[@ysabelle8873]

Rimas Saadi shes saying get off your phone and take a walk. look at things farther away from you or watch tv at a distance that is farther away instead of close up. your eyes will adapt.

[@AssassinJay]

@@ysabelle8873 do that everyday?

[@AssassinJay]

@@ysabelle8873 without our glasses?

[@innakucherenko3238]

I improved my vision doing exercises - 0.5 D astigmatism in both eyes, and 0.25 D of nearsighted in 6 weeks of doing exercising plus palming 15 min a day. But my vision is -6. It can definitely help to stop a progression and improve a little bit

[@Riuoao]

What exercises did you do??

[@Yousef-ci7gb]

@@Riuoao endmyopia

[@thakurlokesh]

Fake

[@innakucherenko3238]

@@Yousef-ci7gb Bates

[@Yousef-ci7gb]

@@innakucherenko3238 bates only works for eye strain and ciliary spasm, not real axial myopia, use endmyopia for completely reversing all myopia.

[@borislavfilipov2777]

Hi, I really hope that you will read this. Yes, I am experiencing improved vision exactly from Endmyopia practices. I managed to reduce my diopters by 1.5 - from -4.25 to -2.5-2.75 at the moment. I think I have a little different understanding of the goal of active focus. It's idea is not to strengthen any muscles. It's idea is to provide a stimulus for the eyes to shorten. The same way as focusing for long time up close is providing stimulus for the eyes to get "longer", actively focusing far away should be providing reverse stimulus for the eyes to shorten. So the theory behind the practice is that you improve your vision by shortening the Axial length and therefore bringing the natural focal point of the internal lens closer to the retina when looking at larger distances. Disclaimer: I am by no means a professional. I just wanted to share my understanding of the principle and my experience.

[@otiebrown9999]

Good effort.

[@shivalisingh0301]

Sir please tell more. I have -11 power in both eyes....i would be very grateful

[@cristanc2310]

@@shivalisingh0301 hi hows your eyes now ? -11 is so worrying

[@shivalisingh0301]

@@cristanc2310 well, it's the same.......we all know myopia isn't reversible...so i just wear glasses and sometimes contacts

[@cristanc2310]

@@shivalisingh0301 so you wear glasses and contacts all day ? Since what age ? Me My causins and uncles too are myopic its like -4 or -5 but we dont use glasses at all my father is also myopic since teenage and hes now almost 60 not used glasses , yeah distant vision is blurry but thanks to not wearing glasses our myopia didnt get worse , whats your age and eyegrade , ill tell you dont surrender ,eyes exercises work it works slowly BUT SURELY ! you just cant recognize it cause everyday a little by little it inproves and you can notice it in months and year

[@switastar]

Watching how to improve eyesight naturally at midnight....

[@goodnerwusanimations3846]

Same

[@S55_Marquise]

Same

[@iheartminiions]

SAME DFIJSIFISD

[@user-mu5fx9bq1n]

Same

[@matthewblakehudson]

Imagine being 1) a doctor 2) with a successful KZbin career AND 3) looking like a model. I think we have ourselves a 10 ladies and gentlemen.

[@AK-zl8lq]

Nobody asked

[@BKrandy0]

and being wrong most of the video

[@b-zar8912]

@@AK-zl8lq The guy's profile pic looks like the guy in the video. It's probably one of his alt accounts he is using to suck himself off.

[@cyblur3560]

Simp

[@cyblur3560]

VulocFN Old but ok

[@khakwaki9677]

The online classes has spoil my eyesight 😭😭😭😭

[@Reannon5]

Try endmyopia.org it does work

[@DeekaynotDk]

I regret when I lied on my eye exam in 7th grade because I wanted glasses now I have to wear these things because my eyesight changed from wearing them :(

[@kimbellyamadasun5209]

Same

[@kimbellyamadasun5209]

So sad 😭

[@zazarays]

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[@user-he2im6ux1s]

Whyyyyyyyyyyy I don't get it why were they so fashionable before

[@bareen1254]

Same here I thought it would make me look smart

[@strong6620]

I just came from the hospital, and got news. My eyes are not very good. My left eye especially. My Mom is very upset and I want to improve my eyesight so I have my normal eyes again. I've been doing online class for about a year because of the pandemic. This video helped a ton thank you so much

[@MrLukassky]

I had had extreme hyperopia since I was born and recently I got a FemtoLASIK surgery. From around +7 and -1,25 cylinder I've gone down to around +1 on one eye and +0,25 on other eye. Apart from how happy I was the day after I can see well enough not to wear glasses at all. I'm 24 and thankfully my eyes accommodate well enough, we'll see how long my inner lens can sustain it. My doctor said around my mid 30s my eyesight might worsen instead of 40s.

[@mishimakazuya6167]

I don't know the science behind it, but my eye sight got a little better after doing eye exercises. Every morning I moved my eyes 50x up-down, 50x left right, 25 diagonal to every diagonal, 10 rolling to both sides. And mostly helped me trying to go out and use my eyes. I think my eyes were just fatigued or weak from watching pc screen too much. When I was at school and couldn't see the blackboard, I would look at something at arm distance at breaks and right after that look on something far away from the window. After a break I could see the blackboard much better

[@sellpeople5184]

Do you take a break from gadgets for like few days or weeks..... or do you have a limit time of gadget usage?

[@mishimakazuya6167]

@@sellpeople5184 I used to not have any breaks and just exercised my eyes in the morning, walked to school and back and tried to focus on things in the distance - read various signs etc. I neglected this for a long time and my vision got worse so now I'm trying to get to it again with 20-20-20 breaks. I read that every 20 minutes you should look at something at least 20 feet away for 20 seconds

[@sparshsinghal9238]

Vision can improve naturally. I know someone who has reversed almost -2. Its eye relaxation and some lifetyle changes, its slow but effective.

[@zedium3280]

But how?

[@sparshsinghal9238]

You can press around the eyes few times. Also sometimes close eyes and try focus between eyebrows. Eat food slowly with full attention, feeling what you are eating. resuce screen time and go try to be outdoors or look outside frequently. Eat more raw food. Blink frequently specially while using screens.

[@sparshsinghal9238]

@arxa till the age of twenty glasses keep worsening your eyesight. If you wear them less often and with little lower prescription, it will increase little slowly. I would suggest relax your eyes often, do active focus, also use Patanjali Drishti eye drops regularly for a few months.It may also reverse, worked for my neighbour.

[@raghavgarg7367]

@@sparshsinghal9238 bro I need to help to improve my myopia too. can we connect for a detailed conversation on what methods really helped you cure myopia?

[@sparshsinghal9238]

@@raghavgarg7367 I haven't done it myself, but my neighbour had benefit by using Patanjali Drishti drops daily.

[@djtommy4213]

I think it's all about your discipline for yourself. Some people with good eyesight also read and work closely a lot but they really take break after 30 minutes or an hour, they don't look at the screen continuously and forget everything. I naturally believe that when you take break and look far away you are giving your eye a real relax this is very important to slow down progression of myopia, especially for adult. Children has a different story, they need more care

[@Blacksquareable]

Thanks for covering this and the thorough review, Dr Allen. I'll give a fuller reply at a later date as I have quite a lot to say. As a hyperope, I found you comments on accommodative spasm and pseudo-myopia interesting and the first time I have heard this concept from an eye professional. You might want to check out some of my videos - but as I have an awful lot I might hunt some out and post the most relevent links here. Also I didn't realise the different cycloplegic agents worked a little differently as I have had to cycloplegic tests where I actually became shortsighted in the second one! Can't remember what it was called - I think something with a "Z" but it was like being hit with a sack of flour - very strange. I see the endmyopia type movement as generally establishing good habits and eye health even though I don't agree with every single thing. I got into it because I couldn't get the help I needed from the opticians!

[@otiebrown9999]

Hi Black, Pleased you ask questions.

[@star222333]

Great subject! I was reading about natural supliments helping stop the progression of macular degeneration. Doctor Allen, can you please cover this in a future episode? I love your videos, I always learn something new.

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Yes, absolutely. I have mentioned it a bit in a livestream about AMD. But I hope to have a whole mini series about eating healthy for the eyes and eye vitamins in the near future. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWTXeZt5qrmhock

[@star222333]

@@DoctorEyeHealth thanks, I watched the video and it covered the subject very well, I even shared it with my friends on Facebook 😁. I'm looking forward to the miniseries. What do think about Bilberry and Eyebright?

[@carolelerman9686]

Another excellent video. I once worked with a brilliant eye surgeon who was 60 and still did not need reading glasses. I asked him how he avoided this, but he would not tell me.

[@tanjatodorovic4611]

Why tf he didn't want to tell you ,ah man i hate these doctors

[@satelte3757]

Question: Can exercising your eye with focus adjustment help improve eyesight? If eye muscles become weaker the more you adjust to seeing things up close, then couldn't doing the opposite help "reverse" near sightedness a way? The common focus exercise is shifting focus from things that are up close to far away multiple times. Any thoughts on the effectiveness of this?

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

It is possible to train the coordination between the focusing muscles(ciliary body and extra-ocular muscles) and you can even train your eyes to improve your accommodative (focus) function. But this is dependent on the flexibility of the crystalline lens inside the eye, if a person is young, then it is more likely to improve your accommodative function, after the age of 40- this tends to become more difficult due to age related lens changes. However, people cant really learn to reverse your accommodative function, you can relax your ciliary body to a point, but even at it's maximum relaxation point- this may not reverse myopia.

[@Skinbodycarestyle]

@G E T R E K T so how do you reverse it?

[@905JimRaynor]

@@DoctorEyeHealth my mom went from -4 to not needing glasses over a 4 year period after retiring at age 55 from her job at a microbiology lab. She got a small dog and took it outside every day. Her optometrist said the shape of her eye ball was changing. The optometrist gave her a letter so that the Department of Motor Vehicles could change her Driver's License stating she did not need glasses. The shape of the eye changes over time.

[@Dannykhc]

Do you recommend using full prescription eyeglasses (that were calibrated against a Snellen Chart at a distance of 20 feet) at a far closer distance such as book reading distance or using the computer? If you can read a book without glasses or use a computer with full prescription eyeglasses, would you recommend that they continue to do so?

[@meharbhagat1]

Hi Dr Allen . I was detected positive for COVID-19 on 6th June . Currently , I don't have any symptoms ( except for smell & taste loss ) . 2 days ago , I developed an inflammation on the eyelid which has now turned into conjunctivitis . I recently saw studies that this could be an initial symptom of COVID . Is it possible to get conjunctivitis this late in the virus ? I have been in isolation for the past 17 days . I would really appreciate any help at this point as the medical system in India is extremely overwhelmed and I'm unable to figure out anything .

[@samir3107]

Very informative video doctor. I got RK done in 1998 on my -12D eyes. Glasses power after surgery was +3.5 and cylindrical 120 ° astigmatism introduced. Some how manage to work 17 years as IT professional. In 2016 vision got so much blurr that no lens was able to help me. No surgery nothing. Dr. Bates and other related exercises then came for rescue. Since then not using any glasses for my routine work. I know I am not 20/20 but certainly better then what "doctor" said I can be.

[@deepakmangwana]

Hlo sir , I want to know that how you improve your vision , naturally or by surgury. Thanks .

[@diyasingh2790]

A doctor will not enjoy people correcting their eyes through exercises instead of coming regularly for eye medicines and drops and glasses and ultimately surgery. Tip for ethical doctors: you can also earn the same amount of money by teaching people natural eye exercises.

[@otiebrown9999]

Doc, It is great that you are thinking to help us go from 20/50 ( -0.75 Diopters), to 20/20 (+0.25 Diopters) in about one year. Thanks for your help and thoughts. Even this review is good. I would be glad to do it myself, with your help.

[@GemilyMez]

You can't get Bates on for a chat, but you should have Jake Steiner on for a chat about EndMyopia! That'd be so great!!!

[@playmarket-1224]

yo gimily please i have a question for you i actually i did read a lot of blog of endmyopia.org and watch a lot of jake videos an yours as well but istill have a question, can i improve my eysight without having two glasses one for close-up and one for distance, can i just go to the distance and practicing active focus to improve my eysight

[@DeniseSkidmore]

@@playmarket-1224 If you do any near work, you need near work lenses for the Endmyopia method. If you have a job and hobbies that only use distance vision, you could just do the one pair of distance lenses.

[@Adrian-cv1mm]

Screw that Jake takes wayyyy to long to get to the point Watch mark warren instead

[@GemilyMez]

@@playmarket-1224 As Denise said. Overcorrection for close up is the worst for myopia!

[@paramjeetthakkar7088]

@@playmarket-1224 have you tried active focus? Did it help

[@ashiqurrahman6140]

Hey Doc I have had exposure to X-ray while having a cervical spine X-ray should I be worried

[@johnreid5814]

As I lay under the stars. I notice that the stars went from a fuzzy dot to a perfect circle. After I looked away, the star was just as fuzzy as it was before. Staring for a long period of time seemed to do the trick only for a short time.

[@Livefreeman]

I was born with perfect vision without glasses until age of 18 years old, this is the age when I started to become a nerd, reading everyday for more than 10 hours a day without rest, this has caused my vision to become weak slowly and gradually. I didn't believe I needed glasses until I started to have difficulty seeing faces of people sitting few feet away across from me. My first glasses prescription was very strong about 2 diopter. The first time I started wearing them I felt dizzy because they distorted the true image I used to normally see with my two eyes, all I could see is a distorted image , as I move my head the image size and shape kept changing, it didn't feel normal and I kept feeling too much eye strain as if the glasses were doing something to my eye muscles. My optometrist recommended that I wear the glasses all the time to reduce eye strain and improve my vision. After wearing glasses for only 3 months, the distortion started to disappear however my vision started to get worst, it changed from 2 diopter to 4.75 diopter in just under 3 month. My near vision got worst and I couldn't understand how I could have myopia and suffer from seeing things very close, I couldn't read a book without wearing my glasses and I can't see my face in the mirror without wearing glasses. This was not an issue for me prior to wearing glasses as my near vision was perfect, and only had problems seeing things far away. I truly believe the glasses has caused my vision to get worst. I experimented a little, took my glasses off for six month however I didn't do any eye exercises then I went to optimist to see if there was any improvement. My prescription was reduced from 4.75 to 4. Not much of an improvement but definitely some improvement to prove to me that glasses can damage vision because only by removing them has caused my vision to improve a little. Going back to university has forced me to wear glasses again, and now my eyes are back again to 4.75 and getting more worst. Can someone suggest to me some eye exercises that they personally tried and has helped them because the internet is full of garbage exercises and I don't know which one to trust. Thanks in advance

[@sergiomerino4116]

Hey doctor what are your thoughts on using physical sunscreens near the eyes? Chemical sunscreens burn my eyes but mineral sunscreen no matter the formulation make my eyes red or yellow and sometimes sting depending on which brand I use. Could this be bad for vision?

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

any chemical put on face including tap water full of crap does it try not removing natural fat cover or putting natural animal saturated fat on skin

[@alanv_7815]

Please make a more in depth video about the end myopia philosophy, you just talked about active focus but i think end myopia is more that that.

[@GemilyMez]

Yeah, it is definitely more than that. 👍

[@angelvargas2877]

What do you mean

[@demian2325]

@@GemilyMez is it? I've tried it for a long time and after an initial around 1 diopter drop, I couldn't get it down more... Have been doing only active focus, i read now without glasses and when carrying contacts I use reading glasses to relax the eyes. What am i missing then?

[@GemilyMez]

@@demian2325 Besides active focus, it is also getting weaker glasses for close up (or no glasses if you are below -2) - just as you seem to be doing (assuming you are wearing undercorrection for close up that means you go down by 1 or 2 diopters only), and also slightly weaker glasses for normal use. The amount you under-correct by is also important. too much blur is counter productive. And then there is the lifestyle aspect - paying attention to how much screen time you have (a desk job at computer is still okay), and how much you care for your vision when you do have screen time (with breaks, and working on the "edge of blur"). There is a wiki out there now if you want to have a look and see if you have your head around it already: wiki.endmyopia.org/wiki/EndMyopia_Wiki I hope you find a way that works for you. Myopia sucks. :(

[@walalang2379]

you need lasik surgery

[@girrajsingh1221]

After reading so many comments I also felt like I should share what I observed being a myopic person. I got specs of -1 D power at the age of 15 and like anybody else I hated wearing glasses and it's been 4 years since then, my right eye number is still -1 D and my left eye number increased to -1.5D( and that because of increased screen time in covid) and I only used my glasses while studying or focusing on board and rest of the time I use to see things without glasses. And my friend who got glasses previous year with -1D power his number gradually increased from -1D to -3.5D in both his eyes within one year even though he workout and is very health conscious. So I think wearing glasses all the time just worsens your eyesight. Just take a break and relax your eyes by removing your glasses for sometime, go out for a walk and eat good. I know my comment doesn't help in anyway in improving the vision but it'll surely help you by not further worsening your vision.

[@michaelan6925]

What you said seems very much in line with lens induced myopia, so I think it's spot-on and would help people : )

[@ShivanS]

Optometrist here, I agree with everything Dr Allen says. Dr Allen has an extremely understanding approach to tackling this touchy subject. Thanks for this video.

[@otiebrown9999]

Hi Shivan. You do good videos.

[@Randhawaguriqbalsingh]

Can you make video what happen to eye when you see solar eclipse with naked eye and how to recover from it if any type of side effects happen.

[@davish53]

OD here. I think the brain is probably more responsible for refractive changes than the eyes. I’ve had a few patients (in just the few years I’ve been practicing) who are well into presbyopic age who are emmetropic yet can see clearly up close. I think they learned behaviors, probably since youth, which somehow prevented presbyopia

[@Fotis_152]

Hey Joseph, I hope you see this. Have been to many optometrists but never really gotten an answer. When I look down I get double vision. A different image from both eyes. It's hard to tell which eye is the most accurate. For example my right eye sees objects in a "different" position than the left. Can prism glasses correct this problem? Thanks.

[@okayDei.n]

My eyes got better. I was an -3.75 and now I am a -1.50. I don't know how but after 3 years my eyes got better

[@jameslastimoso5404]

Did you wear your glasses often?

[@tanjatodorovic4611]

How? Did u wear glasses??? Answer pls

[@bestforyou2295]

Did you wear glasses

[@DRAcapellas]

Uh hate whey the original comment doesn’t get updated or answered 😡

[@brendanhoffmann8402]

My sister told me that she gets dependent on her glasses, that her vision is better if she doesn't rely on her glasses, it sounds really counter intuitive but when I got glasses last week I have noticed every time I take my glasses off I notice I almost get double vision, or at least it is really blurry compared to what I remember before. I'm wondering if this is an illusion because people are struggling to make sense of the difference in visual acuity. My grandma has never got glasses and is blind as a bat because she has been worried about this conspiracy theory. She is 94 and still thinks glasses will make her eyes worse but can't even recognise her own grandson from 10 metres away!

[@b-zar8912]

Glasses do make your myopia worse. It conditions your eyeballs to elongate and stay that way according to the requirements of your glasses. Tell me, would you wear glasses meant for you to see far distances clearly while reading a book that's about a foot from your eyes? It doesn't make sense biologically. You wouldn't understand yet cuz you got them recently, so that's okay. I'm 16 and have been wearing glasses since I was 8. My first prescription was -0.5. I was told to always wear glasses at every moment except sleeping. I rebelled and avoided them whenever I could, but still had to wear them cuz my parents believed my optician and were strict. This caused my prescription to increase to -1.5 d over a span of 4 years. That was in 2017. Now ever since I stopped wearing glasses except when I really need them, my prescription has remained the same for 3 years. In fact, I'd say it is better since I figured out active focus. This isn't a a conspiracy theory. It is fact which people refuse to accept since they want an easy solution that helps them instantly, but destroys them in the long run.

[@bruhman4509]

B-ZAR same bro it really does suck when you realize this shit ruins your vision even more

[@josephnatku5789]

@@b-zar8912 there is a certain period where your body starts to slow your growth, which is around 18 to 21 years age. This is the reason why your power starts to slow it’s power increase. Still, it will increase more as your age progress and mostly it would stop when you reach the age of 45. This is genetics and human anatomy.

[@learnmore5490]

Same here. The moment i got glasses i became dependent and started having blurred vision and pain in the eyes once i remove then. I have since thrown them away and trying these natural ways. Its been a hit and miss a year later with some marked improv ements the past 6 months but of late have been having bit of issues.

[@connormc08]

Fantastic Chanel and video! I'm slowly working my way through them all. I'm a UK based Optometrist and have to say that you have a great way with giving all the most up to date info in a very understandable way. I like your meaursed and open minded approach! Keep up the great work buddy. WIll be mentioning you to my patients! (Especially the ones that ask me about bate's method haha)

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Hey thank you for that! I appreciate this so much. Great to hear these are helping your patients too!!

[@5yotub]

This video has earned my subscription. Great content 🙌🏻

[@nizio7889]

As an optometrist in training, this is the ONLY legit video I have seen on KZbin about training their eyes.

[@joshreese_optometry]

I love this topic! As a vision therapist, I work with people who have accommodative excess/insufficiency every day- many of them have actually been given prescriptions that are vastly off because the optometrist didn’t recognize their accommodative spasms, but it’s true that vision therapy does not affect any outside curvature, but our inside ability to adapt to a certain range. I think that it is interesting, though, that during COVID, we have seen a dramatic increase with patients struggling with accommodation, and my theory is this over-extended period on the computer and inside is bringing accommodative problems to the population

[@otiebrown9999]

As a result, I have my own test lenses, and got back to 20/20.

[@cerenkocer1518]

@@otiebrown9999 How did you go back to 20/20? What are test lenses?

[@ankursingh5589]

Hi Mam, hope you are doing well, I have been facing some eye issue since April,20. I am 31 years old. Whenever I want to read some important thing from mobile and newspaper, some my vision gets blurred. I got my eyes checked from eye hospital again. They suggested me +0.25 glass for continuous wearing and told me that it is accommodation failed. These days I have to work from home and getting vision blurred is very common while reading and doing office work. Can this exercise reduce this accommodation error in my eye or should I go for glass for office work or do this exercise on wearing glass Please suggest

[@joshreese_optometry]

@@ankursingh5589 i am not a medical professional yet, but I would suggest listening to your doctor- but doing that in conjunction with accommodation exercises seems like a good course

[@denisemi]

What an interesting video! We can find all sorts of videos on youtube about these "alternative" eye treatments, but they are mostly done by people who are not eye specialists and based on no relevant data at all. Thank you for this very informative video. Watching you talk about eye therapy made me wonder: Do you think eye therapy could help strengthen one's eye's muscles in order to help with eye strain caused by CVS? Another question: Do you think acupuncture can help improve eye strain?

[@tantuv]

Really helpful video....was actually looking for something like this while watching your other vids. Good job!

[@Microking4u]

Let’s talk about the monetary reality of healing your eyes naturally. It decreases your business, why would anyone want to get training that doesn’t make them a decent living? There is no way they would train you to do that and put yourself out of business! lol It’s common sense people, it’s the same in Dentistry! These associations only have the best interests of the practitioners.

[@natalieknabb7417]

Fantastic overview Dr. Allen. Thank you for addressing the scientific theories on this topic.

[@techyrumi]

Active focus works ( and vision therapy in general), as you mentioned, for people who had a bad habit of tensing their eyes and muscles too much. Less than two weeks ago, I got my newly prescribed glasses on -3.25 with astigmatism -.5 in one eye. But I am driving a Tesla and my overcorrected glasses make it impossible to read the Tesla touchscreen panel. I am over 45 years old, by the way, and more sensitive to over-corrected glasses than younger folks. Yes, I got 20/20 or even 20/15 vision from the new glasses during bright daylight, but I don't need it. I can read number plates just fine on 20/40 vision with my older -2.25 glasses. With active focus (relaxing eye muscle and visual cortex), indeed, I can read number plates further away on 20/30 or even 20/20 vision with my older glasses in bright daylight. That right there is at least 1 diopter improvement in less than 2 weeks. But, I heard that this is a typical result caused by a combination of over-corrected prescription (I believe my true diopter now is much lower than -2.75), improved lighting situations, and active focus (a.k.a bad eye strain habit reduction.) Now, I can read the Tesla touch screen panel just fine and can drive legally with my older -2.25 glasses. Can I reduce it 1 diopter further in the next two weeks? Certainly not. I agree as you explained in the video, that it works only in certain cases and situations. Now my situation has changed and no big improvement is possible anymore. Beware of some claims out there that clear flashes are the same as active focus. Clear flashes, as the name suggests, maintain clarity at random time for a very short period (a.k.a flashes.) Active focus maintains clarity on command (not random) and for as long as you want.

[@keyivol6478]

1 year later has anything changed?

[@tranger4579]

I have a scar on my eye that makes my vision blurry. I was diagnosed with a weak eye as a kid but never improved over the years. Years later it was diagnosed with an eye test. The optometrist told me Lasik surgery could loosen up the scar and improve my vision but another optometrist told me no. Who is correct?

[@mohitchaudhari5237]

Sir i am suffering from double vision and my both eye number is +3 and i want to do lasik surgery i can do lasik surgery?

[@chingkheimang4766]

Doctor pliz do a video on seeing glare. I Can't drive at night.

[@444Justinas]

you're the best! I fully trust you, my eye doc just said the same things about the eyes! :)

[@jungervin8765]

If I would listen to doctors I would never cured my heavy breathing. But okay doki. :)

[@ricardoguerrero5440]

Great video, very articulated and analytical analysis, thank you.

[@vexcarius7100]

I have a question. I used to have 225-175 grade last 2015. 2018, For some reason, my eyesight improved to 100-125. Now it increased by 225-275 again. Is it possible that my eyesight could improve again? Thanks...

[@abuela5674]

Thank you an actual video by a doctor not some random guy on the internet.

[@KennyBucketz]

My sister went from horrible vision and thick Coca Cola bottle glasses to 2020 vision when we were kids. She no longer needs glasses, thank God. My mom would take her to an eye doctor in New York all the time. I didn’t go to that eye doctor and yet my vision has been getting worse and worse.

[@sweetbeep]

What did she do?

[@Emi-ct5ed]

Im in a dark room at 3am zearching this up. Nice.

[@vladp.2461]

Hello Dr. Allen. Have you seen or have any recommendations on how to naturally improve astigmatism? Thanks!

[@youngimages2000]

Thanku for giving credit to natural 🧸 Bates was correct in saying it is the Brain that ultimately interprets what one sees, and he focused on utilizing the brain/thought/training to relax the eyes to help see. It’s like not smoking, or eating and living right improves health, but it can be boring! 🙂

[@otiebrown9999]

15:00 You are completely correct. Simply being in our "nose on book", society, our normal eyes (all of them) change their refractive state downward at a rate of -0.5 diopters per year. If you want to prevent this, you can (when still confirming 20/50, on your Snellen) wear a +2.5 Diopter plus lens, for all close work. This is effective. That is how I got my refraction to change by 1 diopters, getting to +0.5 Diopters, and confirmed 20/20. This is obviously science, and out of scope for Optometry, sad to say. This is of course how you got down to -4 Diopters.

[@Micha-bp5om]

I ordered +0.5 glasses to wear during computer work. With +1 I could not see the monitor clearly

[@smile8me]

I have started doing eye focus exercise daily 👁️👁️

[@tomris5878]

Hello, please add English subtitles to your videos!!! My native language is not English and sometimes I cannot understand the words properly. I went to many ophthalmologists in Europe, To be honest, I could never find a doctor who really answered my questions. Every doctor always gave similar answers. But since I listened to you, I have learned different information and this is excellent. When I put on my glasses I feel my eyes getting lazy, I was looking at the computer screen without glasses, after a while I started looking at the computer screen with glasses and I can no longer see the computer screen without glasses clearly but my degree of myopia is still the same and this is quite interesting, as if my eyes refuse to see as before.

[@MDMD007]

So i've noticed something. After wearing glasses my eyesight worsened. Left eye became -4.5 and right eye became -1.5 which is pretty bad. I'm only 18 and i feel like if this continues then someday i might go blind.

[@alexwharton7407]

You can reverse your myopia. Watch my videos. And go to endmyopia.org. it's not your imagination. Glasses do make your eyes worse.

[@zazarays]

kzbin.info/door/EhYxefHylpSgoiXDWcBrlA

[@MDMD007]

@@alexwharton7407 update : My left eye power is -3(astigmatism) and -1.5 D and my right eye is -1.25D and -0.25(astigmatism). Is there still any hope of improvement? (I used to add both these powers but came to know these are completely different)

[@alexwharton7407]

@@MDMD007 yes you can reverse your myopia. Just watch all Jake's KZbin videos and read the blog.

[@politicsknowledge2994]

@@alexwharton7407 plz help me brother

[@thelobb]

I think we should start by acknowledging myopia is rising very fast in developed countries at least in part because of computer screens and up close work among other things. There is a documented way to ditch glasses and not need contacts during the day CRT lenses. Also I'm sure you have thoughts on this patients tend to ask For more minus spherical than they actually need. That's entirely possible to make someone who walks into your office with a -6 prescription see fine in a -5.

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Yes, there is soooo much to be said about the topic. That is why I hope to continue to build a playlist around the subject of myopia control, Ortho-k lenses, the myopic epidemic etc.

[@jandkhilbert]

Thank you for reviewing these theories and giving us facts 👍

[@Markkxd]

Hello. Does being on a phone in complete darkness for example at night in bed worsen your vision???

[@PS-qf9fj]

I have to say I just started trying reduced lens therapy and have dropped from a OD -6.50 and OS -5.75 with a -.50 cylinder and a 005 axis to a -6.00 and -5.00 with no astigmatism correction. I can see 20/20 in this pair now. In two weeks I'm lowering again to a -5.00 and -4.50. If I'm doing nearwork I'm keeping my glasses off and if I'm using the computer for work I'm wearing differentials. I understand that they're the "specialists" but all that seemed to be happening to me was that I was becoming more and more myopic with an increased risk for eye issues like retinal detachment. If they're going to argue it's totally safe and reasonable for me to take a laser to my eye (Lasik) that doesn't even resolve the root of my myopia I fail to see the harm in at least trying the reduced lens method and some eye relaxation and focusing techniques and exercises. I reached out to my optometrist during the pandemic about this before I started and he actually told me that if what I have is lens induced myopia from wearing my distance correction while doing close up work for years it is completely theoretically possible for me to reverse the damage. He even offered to prescribe me a pair of differentials for the computer. So, I wouldn't call it anything to write home about yet but if I make it into the -3.00s with a test from optometrist I will post my old script with my new script for people to see. So far, something positive does seem to be occurring and honestly, I'm the type of person who would rather explore the option for themselves than write it off at someone else's urging.

[@kat3574]

Paulina Stewart good luck! I also had slight improvement like you

[@zazarays]

im doing the same only my Astigmatism is bad. Ive dumped all the astigmatism correct for it but -.25 and am doing sort of eyebrow raising to reshape my cornea and clear it up. Im wearing -3.5 now instead of -4.5. Also the glasses i got were 7$ at Zenni.com kzbin.info/door/EhYxefHylpSgoiXDWcBrlA

[@doublejuto]

How'd it go? Wish there was a way to fix my eyesight even a little bit

[@eval4495]

I think I might have lens induced myopia. I remember when I was a kid I only had trouble reading the board and when I received my first pair of glasses I got into the habit of wearing them all the time, even though I didn't need to. Since then my eyesight got gradually worse as you can imagine. So now that I'm older, I want to try improving my eyesight if possible.

[@osirusj275]

hi what are differentials? I cant see even at arms length at my pc screen, right -5.5 and left -4.5, so can i just buy a pair of reduced diopter say -4.5 for both eyes?

[@otiebrown9999]

Hi Dr. Eye Health, If I clear my Snellen, from 20/50, to 20/20, in one year, then you tell me that is fiction. When I am forced to do it myself, successfully, (because you will not help me), then that is wise engineering science at work. I learned this truth from an Optometrist, who helped his own children to avoid entry into myopia, by doing what I am doing.

[@stupor_mundi]

I'll never forget the last time I went to the doctor for a routine check-up. When I left I felt really bad and depressed because of a single comment made by the old woman who was the optometrist there. Usually that optometrist makes a series of exams and measurements and gives that report to the doctor for the actual appointment. And actually I didn't feel anything was particularly wrong with my eyes but she must have been a sadist because she said in a very theatrical tone "ohh dear this looks bad!". She didn't even say why, she just threw that at me and left me pale with dread. I felt so tormented. And the funny thing is the doctor didn't even seem worried about anything during the appointment but in truth that sadistic optometrist had actually looked into my eyes with some equipment so I don't know what the hell she saw there that was "so bad" or if the doctor was made aware of it. But that single remark took hold of me and I became so depressed and I never got any appointment since (and that was years ago!) for fear of hearing something terrible. I got so depressed and I still live in fear, I mean what did she even mean?? I have come across some pretty callous sadistic health professionals but that old bat took the cake and really put this dark cloud over me that never went away, and I got a sort of phobia of doctor's appointments in general and check-ups. I haven't been to any doctor in years even though I know I should, but the fear of hearing bad news is so paralysing I just don't. It's extraordinary how a single remark made by an evil btch can have such a huge lasting negative impact. I mean the fact she observed my eyes through equipment made it impossible for me to just shrug it off and move on. Later I kicked myself that I made no further questions but the moment she said that I felt this terror that I couldn't focus on anything else and was kind of in shock. I don't even know if my eyesight got worse over the years because that remark she made sank in and created this subconscious beliefe that there is something terribly wrong with my eyes.

[@tidingsoflife3918]

Just do another test in a different optician

[@aibekkarimov7457]

Man you really need to see psychologist. The fact that you become what you call depressed after a single commentary of some nurse is abnormal.

[@aibekkarimov7457]

and if you don't know if your eyesight become worse or not, it basically means that it didn't. You would've easilly noticed changes if they happened, you just can't see some shit that you could before. And visit damn doctor please

[@gildersleevefan67]

I remember hearing Mariette Harltey on radio commercials for many years promoting the See Clearly Method, which was apparantly the Bates Method

[@analarson2920]

Good video, there is also acupressure and massage to release tension and to relax and improve blood flow. I find ball playing with my dogs and walking with them helps my eyes greatly. I am back to an old prescription and it keeps improving. Blessings to the journey and good health for all

[@zazarays]

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[@andwoe1752]

Excellent video, Dr. Allen! Very interesting to hear your professional opinion on the topic and you clearly did your homework and covered most of it. The only thing I missed is potential explanations why some people seem to have had some (limited) success with these methods. I have some theories why that might be, namely blur adaptation and that "active focus" like exercises might (temporarily) extend your depth of focus through pupil constriction caused by accommodation. Obviously, there wouldn't be any actual myopia reduction but I find it plausible that you can train your brain to sort of make the most out of your vision and see better with a weaker lens. Would love to hear your opinion on this question!

[@user-nc5dv3rb8t]

trust me he didnt do as much reseach as he should . his defintion of active focus is totally wrong . active focus is about introducing a very small amount of blur aka myopic defocus using two reduced lenses one for close up and one for distance to challenge your eyes in a smooth way as a habit to reverse myopia . this is a very big topic you should check endmyopia.org

[@andwoe1752]

I'm aware of that site and a couple of others. But there's zero proof that anyone has actually (partially or fully) reversed their myopia in terms of axial length. If these methods actually worked, someone would have proof by now, don't you think? I'm not going to be convinced or even impressed by reports of some (alleged) diopter reduction. If you can't reduce the axial length of your eyeballs (which is what would have to happen to reverse myopia) the whole thing is worthless. Except maybe if it helps with presbyopia, but I don't know if it can.

[@matt59fire]

My mom went from near sightedness to far sightedness. She can't see up close but far away. When she was young it was the opposite. And she can't wear her old glasses. She has a theory about using zertec for 2 yrs. But thats a goofy theory. In those 2 yrs she also refused to wear her glasses. Changing her prescription drastically

[@matt59fire]

As for me, when I was young, everytime I got new glasses, they would be so strong that I couldn't walk correctly. I do believe it permanently damaged me. We always went to a store to get my eyes checked. It was recommended by my school when I was in 1st grade to get glasses. In all honesty. I dont think my prescription would be so damn strong as an adult if it weren't for the eye doctor I went to. I can only focus on the smallest letters about 7 inches from my nose.

[@minimoments928]

Government, School or My Parents Destroy My Eye Because of online class 😭 Hope my upcoming life with clear eye if i live in this planet than i will find solution with low price or free

[@ankursingh5589]

Hi Sir, hope you are doing well, I have been facing some eye issue since April,20. I am 31 years old. Whenever I want to read some important thing from mobile and newspaper, some my vision gets blurred. I got my eyes checked from eye hospital again. They suggested me +0.25 glass for continuous wearing and told me that it is accommodation failed. These days I have to work from home and getting vision blurred is very common while reading and doing office work. Can this exercise reduce this accommodation error in my eye or should I go for glass for office work or do this exercise on wearing glass Please suggest

[@anthonycorrea3479]

wait so does looking at your phone or computer for an extended period of time over the course of years cause irreversible eye damage?

[@notmei9410]

Endmyopia.org

[@shantohanis7536]

No it does not your eyes will only need rest after

[@chhayakankariya2748]

I have keratoconus in right eye and left eye myopic -.75 diopters. Online classes took away my vision

[@shahanshahpolonium]

bruh what is keratoconus

[@Vidyut_Gore]

About the personality-vision feedback loop - it could be the other way around too - if someone has difficulty seeing distant objects, they may not be as good at activities requiring working with distant objects and may gravitate toward interests that are sharply in focus...

[@pavelstoyanov8419]

Hi. Question: Bates thought accomodation was achieved with the extraocular muscles and not the lens. While he may be wrong about that he also stated (as far as I remember) that myopia is produced because of strain in the two oblique muscles. Reducing the strain in those muscles or increasing strain in the recti would improve myopic vision. So are there any cases of improved vision where strabismus surgery was performed on myopic patients where at least one of the obliques were weakened (without any strengthening of the recti and other oblique) or where at least one recti was strengthened (without weakening any other recti or strengthening any of the obliques)? Lets simplify even more: if you take a person with 20/20 vision and somehow make his obliques pull way harder, would myopia be produced? Is the very strong pull from the obliques able to squish the eye enough to elongate it? Thank you for your video!

[@Finger_Lock_]

Hi dr. Allen thank you for great content as usual. I think you and Jake Steiner from Endmyopia should have a friendly educational debate/chat, I'm sure he would accept and be respectful and you would have a cool experience. I also think you misunderstood the Endmyopia method its not really just about the ciliary muscle but much more thought through. I am a science based guy myself, a student of biology and were sceptical at first too, but I have defenitely (optometry proven) improved my eyesight over the last couple of years (not 100% sure if its correlated with Endmyopia or not but sure seems like it)

[@Akira-jd2zr]

Can you tell me about your experience with Endmyopia, please? What was your Rx before and what is it now? What methods did you use? I'm just curious...

[@Finger_Lock_]

@@Akira-jd2zr Sure :) I used to have - 3.75R and - 3.5L glasses and now its down to - 2.5 on both in just more than a year. If you are interested check endmyopia blog and sign up for a 7 day email course (explains all the research behind the method and main concepts) and check Jake Steiner on youtube. All information about endmyopia is public and free. Main concepts are, that you reduce your close up time (comp. work, TV etc.) and spend more time looking outdoors. When you do watch TV or close up things, you should wear a quite lower prescription than prescribed for long distance 20/20 vision (differential glasses), just enough to se it clearly if you focus, and for long distance you should wear normalised glasses (just below your prescribed, so your eyes have room to improve. Its recommended to relax your eyes and practice "active focus"(you can googe for more info) that will help you see clearly with normalised prescription and than you reduce the prescription as needed, every few months or so.

[@eydaimon]

@@Akira-jd2zr -6.25 and I can see 20/15 with -5.5 now. I started about 4 months ago. I don't expect results to be this fast all the time though. Last official prescription by optometrist was -7 before I started.

[@Akira-jd2zr]

eydaimon So if this information is all true and accurate, then I would say you were what we call over-corrected. It’s very common and happens to probably every doctor at least once a day. If this IS what is going on, then I wouldn’t expect much more.

[@Finger_Lock_]

@@Akira-jd2zr Well, overprescription leads to your eyes adapting, leading to major lens induced myopia... It happening as often as you say, is a big problem in optometry. You just proved our point.

[@Jamesbad28]

Thank you. I just got glasses today, and I makes the world seem so much clearer. It’s awesome, but I miss not having to wear them. I’ve started watching some of your videos and they help me accept glasses more. Thanks man and keep up the good work!

[@alexwharton7407]

Endmyopia.org

[@vijayalgunuri3245]

myopia is not a cornea damage Is focal lenes disorder due to looking long time at near object We can correcte the disorder by looking at for object long time change your habits you can see the result but it takes lot of time like how you got myopia Sorry for sentence formation iam a learning english

[@shonaroan5065]

Not true. You need to slightly reduce your eye power number gradually (glasses / contacts) and I have reduced my myopia

[@tranphuocloc5629]

Wow, how can you do it detailed?, Please help.

[@shonaroan5065]

@@tranphuocloc5629 , every 3 months reduce your power by 0.25 diopter and practice some simple eye exercises to focus better. You will find an improvement and will be able to see with reduced power glasses/lenses.

[@clamchowder7609]

@@shonaroan5065 im at -0.75 -1 should i just not wear glasses?

[@shonaroan5065]

@@clamchowder7609 go to -0.50 and -0.75 for 3 to 4 months. When you adjust to this reduce by 0.25.

[@patrickbatemanfromohio]

@@shonaroan5065 what was ur eyesight, and how long did it took u to fully recover? my eyesight is -7, how much time will this method take me to improve my eyesight so i dont need glasses anymore? im also not rich enough to get reduced power glasses every 3-4 months. pls answer me, thanks!

[@khalilcool7507]

Active focus is not about relaxing the ciliary muscles .AF is about introducing a small myopic defocus using slightly reduced glasses to clear up a small amount of blur at a distance . That's all ! This stimulus is what improves the eyesight and loosens the ciliary muscles spasm and reverse the axial length of the eyeball

[@user-nc5dv3rb8t]

ameen

[@Akira-jd2zr]

First you said: "Active focus is not about relaxing the ciliary muscles" Then you said: "This stimulus is what improves the eyesight and loosens the ciliary muscles spasm" Clearly, you are making two contradictory statements. Also, you can't reverse axial length of the eye. Most myopia is caused by axial elongation. Once the eye grows to a certain length, there's no reversing it. That's like saying you can reverse the length that your arm has grown to just by changing your habits.

[@khalilcool7507]

@@Akira-jd2zr nooo omg u missed the point . the way the doctor talked about active focus it's as if active focus is a silly meditation whereby we lossen the ciliary muscles . Active focus is not about that active focus is about introducing a small amount of blur using slightly reduced lenses to challenge ur eyes to work on positive stimulus which is myopic defocus in smooth and relaxing way as a habit .... and yeah the eyes RESPOND TO STIMULUS . AXIAL LENGTH GOES BOTH WAYS ACCORDING TO THE FOCAL PLANE CHANGES. AND WHY WOULDN'T IT GO BOTH WAYS ?

[@khalilcool7507]

@@Akira-jd2zr I'm so mad at the optometrist industry they set u up for failure by telling u that myopia is genetic axial length can't be reduced ... As if u re telling someone who's fat u can't get skinny or visa versa ... I'm gonna reverse my myopia and i will never give up !

[@khalilcool7507]

Another study ..endmyopia.org/can-axial-length-be-reduced-for-less-myopia/ Go read and stop saying this bs nonsense about myopia being irreversible . U are not hopeless and u can reverse your myopia !

[@dianacristinamorosanu656]

My original eyesigth couple of years ago was -4.5 myopia. During summertime I didn't use the phone, laptop or TV and after a checkup the doctor said my eyesight was -4 if I remember correctly, so i can say that was a big improvement. But can you survive nowadays without using Tv or phone? No, but you can definetly minimise it

[@lavernec7812]

You explained that so well. Thanks!🙂

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

You’re welcome 😊 Thanks for watching!

[@Killasjockstrap]

I feel like if eyesight can get worse it could get better

[@babysharkdanceandsongs8824]

My eye pupil turns its colour in to red on flashlight camera when taking photos and its short sighted . I would like to know the treatment

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Well the red eye effect from cameras is an effect of the camera flash bouncing off the retina inside the eye and being captured by the camera. No real treatment is needed, most phones or cameras can adjust for red eye.

[@gozechan4041]

I wish all the ophthalmologists were as passionate and informative as you are

[@Only60GamesPlayed]

He’s an Optometrist😊

[@jamesmatthews304]

Have learned a lot. Once was called upon to assist an Optomologist remove eyes from recently expired patient. Severing the four muscles surrounding the eye and removing them to transport.

[@rodrickweir]

Great video! Very informative. I'm curious what your thoughts are on using Tibetan Eye Charts?

[@otiebrown9999]

Use Snellen, bright light.

[@commandogaming3036]

I can't see anything after seeing this video, please make another full detailed video 😶