Myopia Reversal: A Pathologists Perspective

Nathan writes:

I am a pathologist-which means that my medical specialty is in the disease process. I spend a lot of time thinking about health and disease in the body.

The body responds to stress. All biological systems do. This is a general biological principle. There are constant feedback sensors and mechanisms all over the body which constantly monitor the body’s status and make adjustments.

While I don’t know the exact enzymes involved in eyeball shortening, I can identify a universal biological principle.

If I wanted to strengthen muscles what would I do? Increase the load on them! Increase flexibility in tendons and joints? Stretch them! Increase bone strength? Increase the load on the bones! The same principles hold for every body system-nervous, gastrointestinal, respiratory, etc. The eyes are no exception.

Note that while the body responds to stress, too much can be harmful. Bones respond to stress by becoming stronger, but they can break if the stress is excessive. I think this is the concept of working “at the blur horizon”. It is important to get the level of stress just right. It also takes some time for the body to adjust.

The fact that this program follows a general biologic principle is what convinced me. In retrospect, it seems so obvious-why didn’t I figure this out for myself? But many things in life are that way-they seem obvious after you have been introduced to them.”

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Full thread in the forum is here.

I’m quite fond of pathologists.  

There is a lot of problem solving and critical thinking amongst that group, at least in my personal experience with friends in the field.  It is that sort of educated, constructive thinking that is most fruitful in solving questions – and something sadly lacking in the optometry field at large.

It’s relatively easy to get this type of individual looking at vision health constructively.

However, that is not what the average new visitor profile to the site looks like.

These days I am spending a lot of time tweaking the experience for the new visitor and casual readers.  Coming to the site largely by looking for vision improvement answers, these individuals tend to have already been through several other sites with questionable claims.

I’m very glad to have your feedback and suggestions to help improve the average visitor experience!

I promise, we will shortly get back to more articles discussing eyesight specifics.  Stay tuned.

Enjoy,