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...
I was just five years old when I was prescribed my first pair of glasses to treat myopia, or short sightedness. Over the years, the prescription was strengthened until, as a 20 year old, I was wea ...
Laser eye surgery, the so called miracle solution to myopia, has many hidden dangers, including the possibility that it may make your eyesight worse. ...
Some practitioners, like the late ophthalmologist Stanley Evans, maintain that glasses are the worst possible treatment for myopia since they halt the eye's development. "If you get a child early, ...
Laser eye surgery was supposed to be the great saviour for all glasses-wearers, and was science’s answer to most of the common sight problems. But, already, the hype and hope are giving way to growing concerns over the safety and effectiveness of...
* Myopia may be linked to an increased intake of refined carbohydrates, according to a study carried out on hunter-gatherer societies and on recently Westernised hunter-gatherer groups (Acta Ophthalmol Scand, 2002; 80: 125-35).
Early estimates that suggested laser eye surgery resulted in complications in just a few percentage of cases look like being wildly conservative. A specialist eye centre in London has found that 56 per cent of those who underwent LASIK surgery had...
Martin Sussman
What Doctors Don't Tell You