The Vision Crisis No One Wants To Talk About

Has your vision deteriorated sharply over the past couple of years? If the answer is “yes,” you are probably another victim of a global health crisis that eye doctors refuse to acknowledge… I’m talking about a condition called quarantine myopia – a health crisis caused by Covid restrictions and the hours we were forced to spend inside during the lockdown. Recent studies of school-age children from the Netherlands and China reveal that myopia – or “near-sightedness” – has increased dramatically since the lockdown.1 Using data from more than 120,000 schoolchildren, studies reveal that kids are up to three times more likely to have myopia in 2020 than children in previous years.2 But it’s not just children whose eyesight has suffered because of the lockdown. You see, good eye health requires that you spend a good chunk of time outdoors every day. That’s because daylight is essential for normal eye health. When you’re indoors, light intensity is obviously much less compared with being outside on a bright day. Studies from Norway show that myopia increases in the darker seasons while it decreases during brighter times of the year.3 Our eyes did not evolve to spend hours inside a dimly lit room. Your eyes evolved as a matter of survival to focus light onto images. Crucial to our image-forming eyes was the evolution of lenses that could focus light. Long periods indoors cause changes in the shape of your eyeball and the thickness of the eye lens. Both of ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Anti-Aging Source Type: news