Myopia

High Myopia… What Causes High Myopia?

Before we get into it, I’d like to clarify something right off the bat… if you have difficulties in dealing with the truth if it’s uncomfortable, you might as well stop reading now.

If you, on the other hand, are dying to find out where high myopia comes from, and especially what you can do about it, so that it stops getting worse and worse every eye test , you are in the right place.   Still with me? Great, I promise I won’t let you down!   The truth can be confronting at times and even more so when the “authorities” in the field hiding it from us, either out of ignorance, or out of profit thinking.

High Myopia & The Ophthalmic Industry

You see, when you go to an optometrist or eye surgeon and ask for the reason of your high myopia, they usually tell you that your lens is shaped too steeply, so you need to wear glasses or undertake eye surgery. So, I’m asking, should we trust them blindly, just because they studied for many years, or should we maybe get a second opinion?

The scholars of this world have believed for centuries what the catholic church wanted us to believe is true, so they were wrong, even though they were the most educated. Not because they were bad people, but because it didn’t suit the catholic church and it’s interests to listen to science.

Theories About The Causes Of Myopia

Unfortunately the ophthalmic industry, just like the catholic church a couple of centuries back, has interests that don’t encourage them to teach students the truth. At universities they still teach a theory about eye problems that was established by German physicist Hermann Helmholtz, rather than the much more accurate and modern theory of one of their own, ophthalmologist Dr William Bates.

So the reason why your eyes get worse and worse with glasses over the years has to do with the whole industry subscribing to the wrong theory. If they were right and glasses, contacts, or eye surgery would truly cure myopia and not just function as a crutch, wouldn’t you get weaker and weaker glasses prescribed, until they are gone?

Well, I haven’t heard that in a while…

True Causes For High Myopia

You have to understand that there are multiple reasons for high myopia. Some are physiological, and many are psychological. The physiological reasons are not the shape of the lens. That’s just the symptom of all the underlying reasons.

High myopia is often a result of bad posture, which restricts proper blood circulation throughout the body, and therefore doesn’t deliver appropriate amounts of oxygen and nutrients to the eye muscles. Together with already existing strain on the eye muscles that determine the shape of the eyeball, the lack of oxygen increases the tightness and strains the muscles even more.

The strain on these eye muscles flattens out eyeball, extending it like a zoom on a photo camera, and because the eyeball is full of liquid, it changes the shape of the lens. In other words, the lens gets pushed out, bends more than it should, and therefore is shaped more steeply. The more tension on the eye muscles, the more the eyeball is extended, and in turn the more myopia you get.

Treatments For High Myopia

High myopia can only be treated by getting rid of the tension in the eye muscles. To do so successfully and long-term you have to find out where the tension comes from, ie you have to determine the underlying causes for myopia. You can do that by yourself, totally naturally, you just need to become aware of how to do it.

Glasses, on the other hand, will never release the tension of the eye muscles, on the contrary, over time they will increase it, and that’s why you need stronger glasses.

Sadly, if you ask your optometrist or eye surgeon about the eye muscles and the influence on the shape of the lens they will tell you that it’s not true. They think that only one muscle around the lens is responsible for its shape.

So if you ask, and you get that answer, ask them why others improve their vision naturally with natural vision correction methods (which are supposedly shenanigans and cost only a hundred bucks one time) and need weaker and weaker glasses until they are gone, but you, using the “correct” approach, get more high myopia and need stronger and stronger glasses (and spend a hundred dollars or more a year!).

You’ll be surprise how much they’ll stutter on mumble something that doesn’t make sense…

Next time we’ll have a look into some of the psychological factors that cause high myopia, and are the underlying reason for the eye muscles to tighten up in the first place.

Filed Under: High Myopia Tagged With: Eye Exercises, glasses, Laser Eye Surgery, Myopia, myopia causes, Natural Vision Correction

Myopia Treatment… Naturally & That Easily?

By Evgania Mehler 2 Comments

Myopia treatment usually means glasses, contacts, or eye surgery, but what are natural solutions? Read on to discover natural myopia treatments…

Myopia is an eye condition where the patient can’t see clearly into the distance. It is occurs when the lens of the eye is shaped too steep, and is usually corrected with glasses, contact lenses, or LASIK eye surgery.

Nothing new here, is there? Well, the question is why is the lens shaped too steeply in the first place? What causes it?   Without answering theses questions, it’s very hard to evaluate if the treatments suggested above are good, or not. You see, optometrists and eye surgeons work based on the assumption that the problem is purely physiological, but are they right?

What Causes Myopia?

Well, the shape of the lens is determined by the shape of the eyeball, which in turn is determined by the tension of the eye muscles. In other words, if the eye muscles are too tense, they flatten out the eyeball (much like the zoom on a photo lens extends), which then causes the lens to shape steeper than usual.

Is that wrong? No it isn’t, that’s why we have the eye muscles in the first place! We need to contract the muscles to zoom in on close up objects, and to relax them to see distant objects, so there is nothing wrong with the action.

The previous sentence provides a clue on what is wrong when you get myopia, namely the eye muscles don’t relax.

A healthy eye should relax itself, but a myopic eye doesn’t. But think about what happens with conventional myopia treatments. Let’s look at them individually. Firstly we examine corrective lenses, ie glasses and contacts, and secondly eye surgery.

Myopia Treatment #1: Corrective Lenses

Your eye muscles are too tense and they don’t relax as they should, so your optometrist puts lenses with the opposite shape in front of your eyes, and therefore supposedly corrects your vision.

Wrong, the lenses don’t correct anything, they just allow you to see distant objects, but your eyes didn’t relax.

There is a reason why they don’t relax in the first place, and that reason is not addressed. In fact, it will most likely get worse, but we’ll get to that in a second.

Myopia Treatment #2: Eye Surgery

Your tense eye muscles cause your lens to be shaped too steeply, and eye surgery is flattening out your lens by shaping off “excess” from the lens, but the muscles stay as stiff as they’ve been. Did it correct your vision?

I beg to differ. What happens when your eye muscles start to relax? Now you are missing some lens, aren’t you? Well, with true correction it wouldn’t matter if your muscles relax, in fact they would, and then your eyes would work perfectly fine.

Myopia Treatment #3: Natural Vision Correction

That’s the part we didn’t talk about yet. You see, myopia mostly occurs in young people, and especially in young people that are under a lot of stress. Since myopia is rooted in tense eye muscles, we get a major clue as to what is going on.

When human beings under stress they often get tense muscles. We are very familiar with that in the muscles we can see, but the same happens in the muscles we don’t see, but we see with.

You have to understand that myopia is not a physical problem, we only perceive the physical symptoms. The underlying reason is in the mind, in the part that stresses us out, in the part that causes us to tense up. So when you use glasses and you can see into the distance again, you give your eyes more room to tense up, hence you get stronger and stronger prescriptions, until you learn to relax.

Once you understand and find that part, you can cure myopia naturally easily!

I don’t mean to perform eye exercises, as it is commonly misconceived would be the solution. I mean to find the reason, to resolve it, and get on with life.

The only real myopia treatment is holistic natural vision correction that takes care of the mind, the body, and the eyes, and not just on one of these parts. Even if you do eye relaxation exercises over and over again, your eye will keep creating tension, until you learn to resolve what causes the problem.

There is no substitute for that.

Filed Under: Myopia Treatment Tagged With: contacts, Eye Surgery, glasses, Myopia, Myopia Treatment, natural

Myopia Children & How Can Parents Help?

By Evgania Mehler Leave a Comment

Myopia and high myopia are an ever growing concern in our society. Myopia is an unnatural state for the eye to be in, yet so many children today suffer from it, and hundreds of thousands of parents are left puzzled. They go to the optometrist or ophthalmologist and all they hear is that their kids are doomed for the rest of their lives… What a lie!

If you’ve read any article of mine, you would know that you should only continue reading if you can handle the truth. I think when it comes to your myopia children you are burning to hear the truth, so I won’t hold anything back, I swear.

The problem with the ophthalmic industry is that they are stuck in their way of thinking. It’s over 150 years old, and all they try to do is to come up with new ways of doing the same thing… wasting your money, and damaging your children’s eyes.   Tough statement? Bare with me!

Causes For Myopia In Children – The Optometrists View…

They see the reason for myopia in children and adults only being rooted in the shape of the cornea. They think it all comes down to a too steeply shaped lens, so they put a minus lens in front of the eye to off-set the steep curve. They never spend any time researching why the lens is shaped more steeply than usual, and why should they. It’s almost like the tobacco industry, the earlier your kids get hooked, the better!

Once your myopia children get their first pair of glasses they WILL need more glasses down the track. According to the Vision Watch Institute and their research study from December 2007, they will cost an average of $220.89 every 2 years for the rest of their lives. Hang on, that is over $6,500 for a 60 year lifespan, if the prices stay the same, AND if they stick to the average… ie many of your myopia children will cost way more!

So Why Is The Cornea Shaped Too Steeply In Myopia Children?

Now that we have investigated why they have no interest in telling you what’s causing your child the problem, let’s have a look at that. Truth is that the lens is shaped too steeply and that’s why myopia children can’t see clearly into the distance. But the question is why is it shaped too much?

Well, it could be one of many psychological reasons, like fear of the future, wanting to hide from the world, identity issues, fear of growing up, not wanting to see many things.

That might sound very honky at first, but let me elaborate. In modern holistic medicine it is widely accepted that our mind is the origin for most diseases. Our mind has so much power, it can literally blind us from what we don’t want to see.

You see, the shape of the lens is determined by the shape of the eyeball. The shape of the eyeball is determined by the tension of the eye muscles attached to it. If these muscles are too tense and tight the eyeball is flattened out and extended, which then increases the curve of the lens.

Why Do Myopia Children Strain The Eye Muscles?

Any of the above reasons can cause your child to strain the eye muscles because there is one common denominator to all of the above psychological reasons… all of them cause stress, and stress causes muscles to become tense, not just in the body, but also in the eyes. So if you child doesn’t want to see what’s going on, if there is just anything that bothers your myopic child that it doesn’t want to see, that tension in the muscles will be found in the eyes.

“But what to do?”, I hear you ask. Great question!

But What To Do With Myopia Children…

Start with talking to your child. Find out what it is that he or she doesn’t want to see. Is it the bullies in school that push him or her around, is it the other kids that laugh at your child, is it unhappy with the way it looks, do you as parents fight sometimes in front of your child and he or she wants to black that out, or does he or she simply want to hide from his/her peers? You can cure myopia!

Whatever it is, you need to find the reason and then start to do some natural vision correction with your child. Myopia children can all be cured, just use natural vision correction and incorporate it in games and make it fun for them. They’ll get rid of their glasses in no time, saving you from stuffing thousands of dollars down the throat of the ophthalmic industry (a $30 billion per year industry), and making you and your child much happier people!

Filed Under: Myopia Children Tagged With: myopia causes, Ophthalmic Industry, Optometrist, Vision Watch Institute

Cure Moypia Naturally – Is It REALLY Possible?

By Evgania Mehler 6 Comments

We have unnatural and incorrect diets. Prehistoric people didn’t have supermarkets or McDonalds; they had to live off from the land. None of our ancestors had supermarkets and fast food restaurants.

They grew their own vegetables, baked their own bread and killed their own meat. We’re not really adapted to doing all that today, but we could still eat a natural diet.   The other factor which our ancestors did not have was TV and computers. The kids didn’t spend all day in front of the boob tube or playing computer games. They were out working and getting exercise.

Myopia – The Worldwide Phenomenon

Myopia is becoming a worldwide condition. No one race seems more susceptible than another. For many years it was thought that myopia was caused by reading, because the myopia rate was lower in the population with no formal education and didn’t read books. So, wearing glasses was a sign of intelligence.

They didn’t even realize that the people in the two groups ate different diets. The people with no formal education were the poor people and they ate food they grew and hunted. The formal education group could afford to eat more processed foods.

Studies have shown that when groups of people left primal living behind and moved on to a more urbanized existence, myopia rates increased within a single generation. This happened too quickly to be genetic. Certain hunter-gatherer tribes have very low rates of myopia, but when given a western diet of highly refined carbs, their myopic rate was equal to those who had never eaten a natural diet.

It has been argued that the different lifestyle between our long ago ancestors and the people of today could also be based on the fact that we do a lot more reading, TV watching and computer work. So, the diet cannot be the deciding factor.

However, the diets that are high in proteins and fats and low in carbohydrates don’t produce a spike in blood glucose and insulin levels in our bloodstream. We know that high glucose levels leads to diabetes and diabetes raises havoc with our eyesight. When societies that previously had low myopic rates, changed their lifestyles and introduced a high carbohydrate diet, they rapidly developed myopia rates that equaled or exceeded those in western societies.

Myopia, Genetics & The Twin Research

Christopher Hammond conducted a study in the Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Unit of St. Thomas’ Hospital in London (which was published in the American Journal of Human Genetics), of 506 pairs of unselected twins. This study inferred the heritability of refractive error.

Refractive error is a common complex trait measured on a continuous scale, with myopia affecting 25-61% of the population. This is taking environment out of the equation and just using genes as a measurement. The study has identified several genes that may be involved including PAX6, known to be important in the development of the eye.

Even with this study, overwhelming evidence points to the fact that our unhealthy lifestyle is the leading cause of myopia. An astounding thing came to light recently that confirmed this. Dogs don’t read, watch TV or use the computer. Wild dogs do not have myopia but some domesticated dogs do.

Why, because wild dogs eat meat and domesticated dogs are fed high carb based dog food and table scraps. Exactly the same pattern found between our hunter-gatherer ancestors and our own couch-potato, high carb lifestyle. Maybe when we have to start buying glasses for our pets, we will change our not so healthy habits.

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