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I started noticing a drop in visual acuity about a year ago. The LCD clock on the stove was blurry from across the room. After listening to this podcast episod
by meristohm 2y ago
I started noticing a drop in visual acuity about a year ago. The LCD clock on the stove was blurry from across the room.
After listening to this podcast episode
Building Better Vision - Jake Steiner #96
REWILD YOURSELF
JUN 29, 2016 ⋅ 1:29:41
I started wearing my reading glasses for all nearby work, going outside more often, looking further away rather than a short distance ahead while walking, and generally trying to reduce eye strain. I have not yet read Steiner's blog, which he urges for a more complete understanding.
I also stopped playing games on my Steam Deck screen, opting for an external monitor to increase the focal length and thus reduce strain.
Anecdotally, things don't look so blurry now, and the stove LCD clock is easier to read.
- snozolli 2y agostarted wearing my reading glasses for all nearby work Here's a study summary on giving student pilots reading glasses to prevent myopia from reading all the training material: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31080964/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31080964/ Off the top of my head, from reading about this a few months ago, I think it's mostly a critical period as a child to young adult where this has the most effect. Some opthalmologists invented glasses for children that reduce the worsening of myopia: https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/glasses-stop-myopia-are-successful-multi-site-trial https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/glasses-stop-myopia-ar... Again, off the top of my head, the eye is stimulated to grow longer by dopamine, and the dopamine release is influenced by the focus difference between what's at the center of the eye versus what's at the edge. Somehow, those glasses reduce that effect, so the eye doesn't continue to lengthen past farsightedness and into nearsightedness.