Martin SussmanIn the first article of this two part series, I discussed the role of nutrition in nearsightedness as well as the general nutritional principles that govern eye health. In this article I will focus on presbyopia, cataracts and macular degeneration.
The visual system — the eyes, muscles, nerves and vision centers of the brain — is one of the most complex and highly demanding systems of the body. More than 25% of the nutrition your body absorbs goes to feed the visual system. The visual system...
There's a mysterious connection between how you see and who you are. Nobody understands it exactly, but it's been documented for more than 100 years. The more that I have studied the eyes, and the more that I teach people to gain better vision – as...
One of the major keys to understand about natural vision improvement is that your eyes do not exist in isolation. Rather, they are an integral part of your total being affected by - and affecting - the body, mind and emotions in a profound way. All...
If you spend any length of time in front of a computer, you've probably experienced some form of eye strain, vision headaches or other stress in your visual system. And you're not alone. According to the American Optometric Association, upwards of 8...
Picture a visit to the optometrist or ophthalmologist and what do you think of? An eye chart on the wall on one side of the examining room and you in a chair on the opposite side trying to read the tiny letters on the bottom line, first with one eye...
More than half of the people in the United States need glasses or contacts to see clearly. And the other half expects that as they get older, they will, too. Even though poor vision is the largest health-related epidemic affecting Americans today...
Those of us who are near- or far-sighted have a rigid focusing system so that the muscles that control our ability to focus are more stiff and inflexible than they need to be to focus clearly. Hold your hand up near your face and focus on it, and...
If you spend any length of time in front of a computer, you've probably experienced some form of eye strain, vision headaches or other stress in your visual system. And you're not alone. According to the American Optometric Association, upwards of 8...
What Doctors Don't Tell YouLaser and surgical treatments are available for glaucoma, but these are often aggressive, invasive procedures and, despite advances in technology, still second in line - after drugs - as a standard glaucoma treatment, or reserved for cases where...
