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After years of staring at screens at work, an optometrist told me I was shortsighted for life and insisted I buy prescription glasses. I then became a landscape
by i_am_so_tired 11y ago
After years of staring at screens at work, an optometrist told me I was shortsighted for life and insisted I buy prescription glasses. I then became a landscape gardener for four years. Guess what? My shortsightedness disappeared, as did my hayfever and weak knees. Now I am back in an office (much much better wages) and my shortsightedness is starting to return. So a combination of aggressive diagnosis and lack of eye exercise.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThe article claims it's the lack of sunlight, not the lack of eye exercise.
- astrange 11y agoLack of sunlight can mean eyestrain, but it also means lack of Vitamin D. Anyone out there giving their kids supplements?
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThe article's theory is that the mechanism is dopamine.
- msarlitt 11y agoIt's true. The human eye simply wasn't meant to stare at and interpret millions of tiny pixels. It causes strain over time, which leads to nearsightedness. Luckily it's (at least) partially reversable, as you experienced.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThe article presents evidence contradicting the strain hypothesis, and presents the sunlight hypothesis instead.