The Myopia Pandemic: Why Short-sightedness Is Rapidly Increasing Worldwide

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The Myopia Pandemic: Why Short-sightedness Is Rapidly Increasing Worldwide | ENDEVR Documentary
Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions. Some scientists think they have found a reason why. East Asia has been gripped by an unprecedented rise in myopia. Today, up to 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults are short-sighted. Other parts of the world have also seen a dramatic increase in the condition, which now affects around half of young adults in the USA and Europe. By some estimates, the world may count nearly half a billion of blind people in 2050.
In severe cases, the deformation of the eyeball increases the risk of retinal detachment, cataracts, glaucoma and even blindness. About one-fifth of university-aged people in East Asia now have this extreme form of myopia, and half of them are expected to develop irreversible vision loss. This threat has prompted a rise in research to try to understand the causes of the disorder - and scientists are beginning to find answers…
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@ENDEVRDocs Жыл бұрын

One of the more staggering trends in ophthalmic care has been the rapid global rise of myopia, also called nearsightedness. The prevalence of myopia exceeds 28% globally, and there are projections that approximately half of the world’s population, or five billion people, will have some degree of myopia by 2050. With the increase of myopia worldwide, it is concerning that an estimated 10% of the world’s population, or more than 700 million people, do not receive adequate therapy. This documentary takes a look at this worrying trend.

@KnackFarmer-theanswerismeat Жыл бұрын

My own myopia - diagnosed and prescribed glasses/contact lens at the age of 11 - has gotten better from a peak around -4.50 to -1.50 now (age 60) so it can get 'better' as you age. I'm hoping for 20/20 before I shuffle off this mortal coil lol.

@tomrhodes1629 Жыл бұрын

Of the 8 people in my immediate family, I am the only one who is nearsighted (myopic). Of the 8 people in my immediate family, I am the only one who was a voracious reader as a young child. I spent as much time outside as anyone else in my family. Common sense and experience. Common sense and experience are the reasons why I have found the cures for diseases that range from the common cold to cancer and HIV/AIDS. Common sense and experience and the gift of wisdom. One day science will catch up. But only through common sense, experience and wisdom. Elijah has returned, as prophesied, to bring the "good news" once again, such that it will eventually be understood and accepted.

@dmaze8457 Жыл бұрын

I recall when in 6th grade, the teacher told us to go to the window and look at the distant scene if our eyes felt tired from reading. Reading this article on the increase in myopia causes me to think she had something there. I’m 85 now and slightly myopic.

@talamuffy3094 Жыл бұрын

@@KnackFarmer-theanswerismeat did you do something in specific to help reverse it or did it start declining on its own? I’m 17 and was diagnosed when I was 8 but it didn’t really get bad until 11.

@KnackFarmer-theanswerismeat Жыл бұрын

@@talamuffy3094 I wore soft contact lenses for the majority of my life, glasses as a backup. When you get older often your near vision starts deteriorating (hence why oldies have reading glasses) but my opthamologist said its actually not unusual for your far sight to actually get better later in life. I will say I've lived a very healthy life food wise - no ultraprocessed or junk/fast foods. Whole food, low carb, healthy, quality meats and fish.

@kuyanatnatdkrx7 Жыл бұрын

This is eye-opening

@candyquahogmarshmallow8257 Жыл бұрын

That's a shortsighted comment

@yengsabio5315 Жыл бұрын

I hope we'll all not lose sight of it!

@alanianfintan Жыл бұрын

I see what you did there 😎

@svarog63 Жыл бұрын

I'll just a turn a blind eye to your comment!

@jenmar9428 Жыл бұрын

Love the pun 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@freedcorporateslave Жыл бұрын

I am only a few minutes into this video but want to thank you for using voice over translations instead of text so I can enjoy this documentary while multitasking.

@KamionKing Жыл бұрын

aka…driving lol

@jeffdelgren2170 Жыл бұрын

Amen. (Building a skyscraper=multitsking)

@pearlperlitavenegas2023 Жыл бұрын

True 👍

@MissNebulosity Жыл бұрын

I had one moderately myopic parent and spend 5 hours a day outside as a kid, and I still ended up SEVERELY myopic, almost legally blind. Obviously I was in that statistical outlier that wasn't benefited AT ALL by substantial time outside.

@normalouis8593 Жыл бұрын

SAME! Neither of my parents are nearsighted, I'm a first generation immigrant who spent A LOT of time out since my country didn't have stable electricity. Somehow I have the worst eyesight in my family. My younger sisters who spent their childhood with the typical American lifestyle are nearsighted but have much better vision than I do.

@rmsoft Жыл бұрын

Well, it might be related to childhood vaccines and/or antibiotics.

@tomrhodes1629 Жыл бұрын

There is undoubtedly a genetic component. But of the 8 people in my immediate family, I am the only one who is nearsighted (myopic). Of the 8 people in my immediate family, I am the only one who was a voracious reader as a young child. I spent as much time outside as anyone else in my family. Common sense and experience. Common sense and experience are the reasons why I have found the cures for diseases that range from the common cold to cancer and HIV/AIDS. Common sense and experience and the gift of wisdom. One day science will catch up. But only through common sense, experience and wisdom. Elijah has returned, as prophesied, to bring the "good news" once again, such that it will eventually be understood and accepted.

@6infinity8 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps if you didn't spend that much time outside you would now be blind, who knows!

@reasonablewalk4982 Жыл бұрын

Samew

@N0Xa880iUL Жыл бұрын

From what I know/suspect it is indeed from the modern lifestyle. Such as long hours of reading books, watching emittive screens and not being much outside doing/seeing things. I think it's an adaptive disease. If you don't use your eyes much to see faraway objects and instead only see things that are near then the body adjusts to it.

@youknowtherules8888 Жыл бұрын

@@binarypower yea it’s stress. Low grade chronic stress and inflammation. Being indoors too much. When sunlight hits the back of the eye. Dopamine receptors are activated which keeps the eyes in healthy sphere shape. However if you limit the light and add chronic stress/inflammation. The eye begins to change shape into an oval rather than a sphere.

@N0Xa880iUL Жыл бұрын

Yea I believe that.

@stefanadolfspies Жыл бұрын

or if everybody wears glasses and the eyes can chill.. evolutionary thats a bad direction. we will all need more glasses if we use them more

@lauralh704 Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I said only people chose to misunderstand me to

@stefanadolfspies Жыл бұрын

@@lauralh704 say what you have to say

@MountainGirlwIPA Жыл бұрын

I am so glad you posted this because my eyes deteriorated in my 50s quickly. Hours of screen time has to have played a role in my eyes.

@CharlottePaige-rg2kq 22 күн бұрын

What I don't understand is my husband is a software engineer and looks at the screen all day to do his job and wears no spectacles

@Da-Sheek Жыл бұрын

Spending time outside also contributes to many more health benefits. I was outside in my younger years everyday during the 80's because staying inside was punishment for us. My eyesight luckily is still good, never had glasses.

@theobserver9131 Жыл бұрын

If I was made to stay inside for the rest of my life, I would make sure that was a short time. I appreciate shelter when needed, but I HAVE to get out every day. Life without living, moving air, and sunshine, and the smells of earth would not be life to me. I already notice the falling of birdsong outside. If songbirds are done, then so am I.

@0ThrowawayAccount0 Жыл бұрын

ok boomer

@theobserver9131 Жыл бұрын

@@0ThrowawayAccount0 Do you have any idea what saying that to someone says about you? Do you have no self respect?

@kiabtoomlauj6249 Жыл бұрын

@@0ThrowawayAccount0 That's so deep, I have goosebumps just reading it!

@kiabtoomlauj6249 Жыл бұрын

I disagree, as someone growing up in the same era as you but as someone with very bad myopia. My problem, however, didn't start until my late teens, after being in the US for about 7 or 8 years. In SE Asia, we boys were outdoors every single day; and the air, even back then, was bad, from the burning of millions of acres of land for crops. Back then, in Southeast Asia, very few people had myopia. Today, it is very prevalent in SE Asia, around 60%, as the rough surveys showed; but it's nowhere near the 80% as seen in northeast Asia. Anyway, my problem started in my late teen, when I had started college; it went off the chart and then it stabilized, as I became older. Today, I still wear the same glasses as I had, when I was in my mid 20s, gotten shortly after college. I had gotten a pair of glasses in between, but got rid off them... to return to the pair I got years ago. So, I do have a very weird set of eye problems: mixing of far-sightedness with near-sightedness again seems to weirdly stabilizes & even helps my extreme myopia a bit...

@abanillasurfer Жыл бұрын

I have a theory about the unexplained reduction in benefit from outside time once myopia is diagnosed: opticians constantly upping prescriptions more than is strictly necessary. I would love to see further studies investing the impact corrective lenses with over powered prescriptions have on this.

@otiebrown9999 Жыл бұрын

They exist. They are totally ignored.

@abanillasurfer Жыл бұрын

@@otiebrown9999 Do you know what they're called or have any links? I'd be really interested to read them.

@jordanwardan7588 Жыл бұрын

? is this true? and by what means is this done? and why is this done by opticians but not other eye specialists such as optometrists or ophthalmologists? what is the education and training experience for opticians? do optician textbooks recommend this to be done? what effect does a higher prescription effect have, physiologically, on the eyeball and directly connected nerves? what neurological effect? what psychological effect? if the opposite case were true, that opticians (and not optometrists or ophthalmologists) worldwide in different optician's institutions prescribe lower strength eyewear, would the purported nearsightedness epidemic be a farsighted epidemic instead? what effect does the patient-doctor social structure have? why would you be led to believe something so convoluted? is there a conspiracy by an international cabal of opticians (and not optometrists or ophthalmologists) plotting to induce myopia, often a congenital condition unlike farsightedness, in the population of all recognized countries? do you think your theory is simpler than other ones, and thus passes Occams Razor?

@abanillasurfer Жыл бұрын

@Jordan Wardan idk. Good questions. I just ask based on personal experience. When I took recommended prescription increases, my eyes got worse. When I stopped, my eyes stayed the same. Could totally be a coincidence. That's why I'd be interested to see any studies. No conspiracy, just the knowledge that if you run a shop, it's better if you sell things.

@MikeC-kw6fj Жыл бұрын

@@abanillasurfer It's not a coincidence

@scrapbooksandmemories Жыл бұрын

3 out 4 of my kids have glasses. 2 have myopia.. neither parent wears glasses. This is really interesting ! Their eye doctor said it was no big deal and I never knew how it developed. TFS this documentary.

@user-bm2tr5mn6p Жыл бұрын

I grew up in rural RSA, played outside dusk to dawn..still turned out to be myopic -8

@Jumper4ever93 Жыл бұрын

vitamin a deficiency and not enough meat in the diet. Those who don't eat liver on a weekly basis are more likely to have eye issues than those who eat it .

@fairsquare5316 Жыл бұрын

Because you don’t use your eyes correctly not because of screens. Glasses and lenses don’t fix the root cause of myopia just the symptoms. People need to be educated how the eyes work and the muscles in the eyes need to be strengthened and relaxed

@prettyme3150 Жыл бұрын

@@fairsquare5316 Can you please elaborate?.Thanks

@CP-jk8nm Жыл бұрын

@@fairsquare5316 and how? Thanks.

@fairsquare5316 Жыл бұрын

@@CP-jk8nm you should notice movements between different objects and use your peripheral vision, your eyes should be relaxed all the time, train your mind to be relaxed all the time, go outside and look how everything is moving cars, trees, it should be 3D, don’t focus only on one object at a time, make this a daily habit, if you work at home or spend too much time on the computer, try to do the same thing in the room, move your body and notice how different objects are moving

@evelynmahoney3569 Жыл бұрын

I began having difficulty seeing things in the distance after several months of working as a timekeeper. Lots of data entry & proofreading huge reports line by line in very small print. It got to where I couldn't read freeway exit signs until i was right under them. I had to get prescription glasses. The eye doctor explained that the muscle that adjusts for distance had become fixed due to all the close-up work I was doing, and that if I ever got away from that kind of work, my long distance vision would likely return. He was right! And I didn't need the glasses anymore! He also said that our ancestors didn't have this problem because exercising that muscle was part of survival, going from scanning the distant horizon for wildlife or for enemies, to doing close up work like carving or weaving. Think of all the kids with their eyes glued to their phones for hours & hours a day. No mystery there!

@SunShoT 4 ай бұрын

How is your eye today

@theresekirkpatrick3337 Жыл бұрын

Well my mother used to tell me in the 70’s-80’s not to sit close to the television. Now we watch screens closer and many more hours a day.

@fayesortor7117 Жыл бұрын

In My childhood only the bookish smart kids wore glasses, because they didn't play outdoors. At the time we thought it was from focusing closely. Now we know

@danielch6662 Жыл бұрын

It is from focusing closely. If it was outdoor sun exposure, there wouldn't be so many near sighted people in Singapore. You get more sun in half an hour in Singapore than you'd get standing outside the whole day in London. It's Lamarkian. The genes enable better adaptation. If young children spend a lot of time studying, their eyeball grow optimized for the distance they most used. Short sighted people don't have poor eyesight. They have eyes optimized for a different distance. Imagine a 70 year old, with nearly zero accomodation. Your eyes focus on one distance and one distance alone. You are better suited to a modern lifestyle to have your eyes optimized at 20-30cm than 8-12m. We have no need to hunt wild antelopes. The meat we hunt at sitting on supermarket shelves. If it is 3m away, and you can't read the label, all you have to do is to just walk closer. If your eyes can't focus closer than 0.5m, but at 0.5m the text is too small to read, you're stuck. There's nothing you can do to be able to see it. The optimal eye for our modern world is around -5.0 to -8.0 diopters. This is true even of younger people. We see only through our own eyes. We cannot see through anybody else's eyes. Most people do not give it any thought. They live their whole lives not realising something that I discovered by accident. Near sighted people can see things people with "normal sight" never see.

@theodora_pilates Жыл бұрын

@@danielch6662 I'm not sure I'm understanding your comment correctly. Is one of the things you're saying that being myopic between -5 and -8 is the ideal eyesight? (cause if so, yay 🥳)

@tessellatiaartilery8197 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating. What a wonderful documentary. Thank you very much for posting this.

@lucystrider728 Жыл бұрын

I was informed that I needed to take breaks from close up focusing to change to far off focusing while doing hours of reading to keep my eye lenses flexible. Many people end up needing glasses because of all the reading in college. I heeded this advice and went outdoors during study sessions to focus on individual leaves in the tops of trees. This was before computer screens and cell phones were a thing, I imagine it is that much more important now! I did go for decades without needing glasses. I am not saying this would prevent myopia for everyone, but I am saying I would consider that hours of close up focusing without counteracting it with far off focusing might be causing some of it! I maintained extraordinary far sight, I could read the tiny print on the bottom of the eye chart saying where the chart was made.

@thecatat7 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for presenting this information! Excellent video.

@Pipsqwak Жыл бұрын

Only one of my parents was nearsighted, and when I was a child there were no video games and we didn't watch TV. I did read from out age 3, but most of our days were spent outdoors, summer and winter. I was and still am, very active outdoors, yet I was myopic by the time I started school and got rapidly worse throughout childhood until now, at age 60, I'm at -7.5 to -8.0. Because of age I am also now unable to see very close up either (presbyopia). None of my siblings are myopic, and we were all raised in the same circumstances. There has to be a large genetic component or possibly congenital factors in some people like me. I also wonder about the daylight theory. If it is true, then why don't the Inuit, the Saami, and other people who live in high latitudes where winters are very dark for nearly half the year have high rates of myopia?

@xaage5100 Жыл бұрын

Genetic does play a factor, but for the majority, daylight is more impactful compared to genetics as these studies suggests. Indoor lighting has far less intensity (typically

@pragya-jane Жыл бұрын

I would imagine they have some differing genetic factors due to the geographic location. That being said, snow and ice-bound landscapes actually reflect a lot of light. When the sun is around.

@MsPeabody1231 Жыл бұрын

Both my parents were long sighted. Myself and my full siblings are all myopic. My half siblings are not. Some of my half-siblings are close in age to my full siblings. In regards to all our children I can't say as they aren't all yet teens.

@lill1557 Жыл бұрын

I agree there is some genetic. Or epigenetics. Or gene mutations. But we're not getting Fat soluble vitamins necessary for eye health. Particularly Vitamin A from meat and organs and especially liver. Beta carotene like from carrots wont help much. Dr. Jack Kruse has some good insight on it.

@MsPeabody1231 Жыл бұрын

@@pragya-jane They have polar nights which is 4 months of complete darkness. So there is not enough light to reflect on any snow. I actually spent a year living in that latitude in my 20s.

@techcafe0 Жыл бұрын

I KNOW for a fact that staring at a computer screen (a fixed distance) for hours every day has ruined my vision.

@techcafe0 Жыл бұрын

LED backlit screens are especially harsh. Feels like I was being stabbed in the eyes with tiny pins when I first started using a large LED-backlit display. I think we're going to find in years to come that we unwittingly did unrepairable damage to our eyes by staring at these screens for long periods.

@danielch6662 Жыл бұрын

@@techcafe0 I have been staring at computer screens for 10-18 hours a day, every day, non-stop, for 30 years. My eyes haven't been ruined. My eyesight is pretty good. Yes, I'm over -6.0 diopters in both eyes, but that happened earlier.

@GrapheneBurst 8 ай бұрын

I was able to greatly reduce myopia by doing eye exercises daily over the course of a few months. I went from -3.5 to -0.75. The lasik doctors were excited and advised me to not get the procedure

@Obinsfnubf447 7 ай бұрын

Which exercises?

@Aahmpower 6 ай бұрын

Which exercises? currently at -2.5 I believe. This could be incredibly helpful

@ConstructiveMinds100 5 ай бұрын

@@Obinsfnubf447plenty on KZfaq.

@Dom4z 4 ай бұрын

@@AahmpowerMy guess is drawing shapes with your eyes to strengthen outside muscles. As well as likely spending more time outside in the sun, and looking into the distance. Close up work literally causes eye strains, weaken ciliary muscles that control your cornea and lens. Not to mention people doing this are always sitting in home not getting sun. Apparently, eye evolved with the sun to see far ahead/color contrast. Not getting sun likely effects eye to grow, meanwhile close up work is known to stimulate eye growth. Worst part, nobody is financing clinical studies to find what is exactly happening as most optometry businesses are non-government owned. There's like 50 year gap between clinical studies from 70s that nobody followed up, despite author's recommendations.

@Aahmpower 4 ай бұрын

@@Dom4z Heard similar words from a friend, might try. Going out a few times under the sunlight has helped a bit, it just makes you feel better, and I'm trying to do it outside of school more often, like working out sometimes

@08gani Жыл бұрын

Very nice documentary !!! I was able to connect it to even my experience

@asmozturk1931 Жыл бұрын

It's a very good documentary, not only because of the topic was chosen, but also it's demonstrating how science works, steps of a study from hypothesis to results, I think every school child watch it. thanks for your work

@madameclark3453 Жыл бұрын

I knew this. I had 20/20 vision. My first job was working in an office with no natural lighting (no windows) and working on detailed maps. I had to start wearing glasses after one year. Nobody in my family ever needed to wear glasses. The previous year, I spent indoors taking care of my baby, I rarely went out.

@ChrisBennett-sj5pm Жыл бұрын

25 years wearing -2 dioptors glasses. Now 6 months of lots of outside time and lots of focusing in the distance and i can now see 20/20 in natural light and 20/25 in artificial light.

@otiebrown9999 Жыл бұрын

Hi Chris, An excellent success. I went from 20/60 to 20/20.

@Rosi12345 4 ай бұрын

1 year of outside time and less computer use, -3.25 to -2.00 🎉

@rejectmodernity3045 2 ай бұрын

With or without Glasses? God bless

@snoozie9241 Жыл бұрын

My myopia is worsening a lot since I was 8 by each year and I’m not even an adult. I'm pretty sure I’m going to be legally blind in a few years. I just hope they’ll find a way to stop it for the future generations

@user-tb5fc6yr7o Жыл бұрын

It slows down with age. I got about -0.25 per year, but it stabilized at -5.75

@matharts3212 8 ай бұрын

It can be reversed Check endmyopia on KZfaq

@orandachildren1051 7 ай бұрын

"They" will never find a solution. It's not in their interest to. There is already a solution to reverse myopia. Reduced lense method.

@m1stern00by 6 ай бұрын

Stop sitting behind a screen or readong books so much. Doing things for hours on end up close makes your eyes like this. You have to look into the distance a lot more but youre probably screen addicted too much to do that.

@aurelianspodarec 4 ай бұрын

Being legally blind isn'ta lot btw... its about -2 or -2.5 depending on country. I'm -1.5 myself so I'm close to that too yet I walk without glasses but if you're -2 then you need glasses for everything and I hope I don't reach that point :(

@therealdeal3672 Жыл бұрын

I would surmise that myopia increased during the pandemic. I did specifically work on practicing focusing at a distance so as not to lose the ability.🤓

@koalatheworld Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for posting. I learn a lot about myself and myopia. 🤓

@mshoza1000 Жыл бұрын

Very informative article; I always wondered at the difference of vision disparities, from eyes of people who read a lot.

@forward_ever_ever2595 Жыл бұрын

I realise something, MOST of my friends who come from lower income backgrounds...these ppl did not go beyond primary/secondary i.e max age 16yrs old who did not also have early access to television (cable included). Their fun time would be more outdoor...they did not spend the lengthy times in studying like myself....these ppl MOST of them do not wear glasses. I observed this over the years and thought that there must be a correlation

@mosaicowlstudios Жыл бұрын

I don't have myopia (is that how to say that?--I've never needed glasses or corrective lenses). This is FASCINATING to me. Most of the people in my life have myopia. I'm the only one I know besides my father--my mother and siblings all have myopia--who doesn't have it. I've often wondered what life is like for everyone else around me. It really seems like such an inconvenience. So many daily behaviors centered around constantly correcting one's vision--such a fundamental sense that we use to navigate the world. I feel like I've taken my vision sorely for granted. I never have to think about being able to see anything. This is fascinating.

@larsonfamilyhouse Жыл бұрын

It’s not bad as long as you can afford to go to the dr and afford contacts. You wake up and put them in first thing so you can see or else you walk around like mr magoo (me bc I can’t afford the dr or lenses and am legally blind in one eye and severely myopic in the other lol) I’m glad you’re a lucky one :)

@BenVanCamp Жыл бұрын

It's from only looking at things close up. It's also caused by glasses. I stopped wearing my glasses and after a little over a year, my eyesight is almost fully clear.

@Rosi12345 4 ай бұрын

I used my glasses only when necessary (only driving and not so often) and my vision got better by 1 diopter in a year

@akiko7298 Жыл бұрын

I have one parent who is nearsighted, the other is at most a little farsighted. One kid ended up a bit farsighted and I ended up with almost the exact same eyesight as my nearsighted parent (except which eye is worse is flipped). Although I've been told a lot of my problem is astigmatism. I spent a lot of time outside, almost zero screen time as a kid but I read a lot of books. Now I have reading glasses for when I use screens for more than 5 minutes at a time. Most optometrists are confused by that because my bad eye is *only* -5 but I was always getting headaches from reading and one doctor said I should get reading glasses because my regular ones were strong enough that my eyes were straining to read a book. Got reading glasses and no more reading headaches!

@denisecatlett7203 Жыл бұрын

I have been myopic as long as I can remember. I’m 55 now. I realized I needed glasses when I started driving at 18. I could not make out street signs or people walking on the road ( that was really scary) Don’t worry, I always wear my glasses while driving. My vision has not changed since my first prescription and I’m very active outside. I do notice that too much screen time makes my vision blurry and my eyes tired.

@emese-tundetorok1135 Жыл бұрын

From us who suffers from myopia it would be welcomed a lower price for glasses. 300$,400€ for glasses is a little bit to much

@nazb1982 Жыл бұрын

The problem is opticians prescribe stronger lenses each time you go which just makes the problem worse. Really we need to be wearing reading glasses when sitting at a screen for extended periods to counter not looking in the distance for any length of time

@otiebrown9999 Жыл бұрын

Correct. This is how I went from 20/50 to 20/20. From -1 D to +0.25 D .

@zodiacfml Жыл бұрын

indeed East Asia. in our country late 80s and 90s, it was wealthy classmates that had glasses early. I transferred to a less wealthy school, far less. Sadly, these days, it is worse as I see more students and children wearing glasses far more frequently than ever due to a multitude of reasons like lack of safe area to play outdoors, reliance on gadgets, city lifestyles of rarely being exposed to the sun.

@MarcaoPT Жыл бұрын

I wish I knew that when I was a kid. What an astounding discovery. Congratulations to the scientific community who focused on this issue.

@larsonfamilyhouse Жыл бұрын

It certainly didn’t help me so don’t be too sad.

@ADeeSHUPA 9 ай бұрын

@@larsonfamilyhouse what u mean

@wangariwairimu1st Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this documentary... I've learned a lot and I'll be able to share the knowledge with others too❤from 🇰🇪

@kelmscot21237 Жыл бұрын

Very informative documentary. As a dad, I always worry about my boys and their future. One wears glasses already, and the other doesn’t.

@ENDEVRDocs Жыл бұрын

well, you seem to be a good dad. Your boys are lucky

@TheAlchaemist Жыл бұрын

My teenage kids' myopia grew massively during the previous year. Clearly both my genes and my wife's ones do not help at all, we both had a lot before surgery, I guess when combined it was a bad recipe. Add screen to that and you end up with myopia growing at a rate of 2 per year. So, desperate, 6 months ago they received defocus glasses and started using atropine. A couple weeks ago, they went for a check up after 6 months, and the numbers had stabilized, they were identical to the moment when they started using the new glasses. I cannot state enough how relieved I felt, and I have to entirely thank science about it. And, still not many people, not even ophthalmologists, know these glasses exist.

@sunnersky5996 Жыл бұрын

Are you in the USA?

@TheAlchaemist Жыл бұрын

@@sunnersky5996 Nope, Europe.

@clearwater1686 Жыл бұрын

Things that made mine worse: studying, office screens, contact lenses. Things that made them better: stop wearing contacts, and glasses whenever possible.

@JaneyyHarp 4 ай бұрын

huh, for me contact lenses actually helped tremendously. My eyes deteriorated until I started wearing hard contacts

@theobserver9131 Жыл бұрын

It's "nice" to hear that at least one big problem isn't messing me up. I already had some eye problems before little screens were everywhere. I never liked looking at things so close to my face. Gives me a headache. My problem prevented this problem. lol. I put all my internet etc on the bigscreen. ...and, I spend as much time as possible outside. Nature is my home.

@ADeeSHUPA Жыл бұрын

@G E T R E K T ないす نَيس

@denisecristinaaguiar3020 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic!!!!

@main_tak_becus6689 Жыл бұрын

Got short slighted when I was in my mid 20s because I spent most of my time inside gluing to monitor and phone screen all day in my dark room. I had never had problem before even though I spent a lot of time on weekends playing games. My friends around my age (30s) who work all day in the fields or other than office jobs don't have problem with near sightness even though they use smartphone.

@njogukiigi2213 Жыл бұрын

"Skip ad" button must be contributing to this pandemic.

@2roddmann2 Жыл бұрын

The metaphor of growing short-sightedness in the world is not lost on me.

@ericcarabetta1161 Жыл бұрын

Damn. So, people really _should_ "go touch some grass", huh? 😩 But I don't _wanna_ go outside! Lol, there are bugs. And people. 😠

@aroundandround 5 ай бұрын

This narrative is consistent with my experience in that I developed mild myopia in adulthood after moving to the northeast where my outdoor time was significantly lower than ever before both because of lifestyle and the colder winter months.

@nurfadhilah4704 Жыл бұрын

This is really a good documentary movie. Thank you

@WhiteWolfBlackStar Жыл бұрын

I just recently started running into problems with this after moving to a new city and had no vehicle. I don't know anybody, had no way to really get around, it's not a place you want to hang outside very much if you don't have to. I ADORE reading. It's a really scary situation. I'm hoping surgery is going to help me. I always had great health, this is the last thing I needed in my life right now.

@nostalgia545 Жыл бұрын

I’ll be going to Optometry school and this video made me so excited!

@OriginalContent89 Жыл бұрын

Good luck in school! 👍🏽

@NYC11040 Жыл бұрын

This is so Informative! Thank you! Do processed foods contribute to myopia during development?

@brigittebenjamin9528 Жыл бұрын

I was diagnosed at 11 years old...it just seemed to happen overnight ...one day i could see and the next could not see the black board in class...i did a lot of reading as soon as I could read...was naughty and watched TV in a dark room...but also spend a lot of time playing outside. I was also under much stress and anxiety as a child. We had constant family problems and hence i was a very insecure child. Am now 47 and of course the myopia is still there. None of my parents or siblings had it and i was the only child in my near family wearing glasses as far as I can remember

@wenticoent4934 9 ай бұрын

Same here 😢😢😢

@newnewmee44 Жыл бұрын

who would have thought that spending your childhood reading and watching screens up close will lead to Short-sightedness? I'm shocked, shocked i tell you... well, not that shocked, it was to be expected. I had a normal childhood, playing around outside and guess what, me and the rest of my friends have perfect vision.

@cezra833 Жыл бұрын

Good for you. I spent most of my childhood outdoors as did my friends. I, and about half of my friends, are myopic.

@chanchan5349 Жыл бұрын

I am nearsighted. I spent most of my time as a child out of doors, I still spend a lot of time out of doors, I’m also an avid reader & have been since age 8. Mine showed up in college but decreased somewhat afterwards and only @age 40 did it show to the point of needing corrective lens. I grew up with books so my preference is still paper/ink but I do have a tablet and use it; however, I find it detrimentally affects my eyesight during extended use. Being indoors, using electronics exclusively, all make sense but so does air pollution with chemical exposures, poor nutrition, and not enough physical exertion.

@nebokibona634 Жыл бұрын

One of the best medical documentaries.

@jettanyx1 Жыл бұрын

I was told by doctors my eyes are messed up due to being premature. Premature births are becoming more and more common in more developed nations. We survive thanks to incubation which is fairly new medically but do still have a lot of heath problems

@wge621 Жыл бұрын

I've been able to reduce my prescription from -4.75 to -3.5 in just a year! Here in the UK we can buy contacts at any prescription, and I've deliberately under corrected (much to my optometrist's chagrin) to improve my eyesight. My eye tests have proven a marked improvement but for some reason my optometrists insist on telling me it's not possible or worth my time...

@alin.0. Жыл бұрын

If we consider the curriculi that optometrists and ophthalmologists are taught, they're not really based on curing methods. It is mentioned as a small section, saying that some may get improved results with eye gymnastics/hypothesised solutions, but it never truly goes into detail as it has not been heavily researched. It could also been not only myopia that you have been expiriencing 100%, asthenopia(eye strain) could have also been a partial contributor, meaning that myopia(is for now) not curable and it is the other issues that may be masked as myopia can be fixed, contributing to improvement of vision. But idk this is just a guess

@chiken224 Жыл бұрын

@@alin.0. very informative guess, thank you for sharing

@chiken224 Жыл бұрын

Can you share your routine or steps taken to see that progress?

@wge621 Жыл бұрын

@@chiken224 not much of a routine really, I just wore contact lenses that were at a lower prescription. So if my prescription was 4.75, I'd wear 4.25. Once that felt clear to me, I would go down to 4.0, then 3.75, and so on. You'll notice your eyes change on a day to day basis, sometimes 3.5 would be perfectly clear, and some days it would be a bit blurry. I probably wouldn't go more than .5 down, although I have done it before. You want to avoid getting blur adaptation so the modest steps was how I did that. Also, I tried to take a walk or two every day. It didn't always happen, but I feel that helped as well - being outside made it easier to focus on points far in the distance, which is a lot harder to do indoors. Now I can wear -3.0 pretty comfortably and I wear -3.5 if I want things to be really clear, eg going to an event. I also buy dailies and rewear them a few times, eg 3-4 days. It really doesn't impact the comfort and makes it a lot cheaper as I often jump levels before I finish a whole box

@spideywhiplash Жыл бұрын

@@wge621 I'm an American in America and I buy my contacts for pennys a piece, without a prescription, from Daysoft in Scotland. They are also dailys that I wear weekly. But, I only wear one lens in my left dominant eye. Mono Vision - that way I do not need readers. My optometrist told me to take supplemental oil capsules (MCT/Coconut/Olive/Pumpkin...) to help with my morning time eye/vision cloudiness, dry eyes and occasional eye irritation. It really has made a difference. If only more people knew they could also get excellent quality contact lenses from the UK so easily and not have to pay an arm and a leg for them. I might add, I love the fact that I have Zero Anxiety if I accidentally drop a lense when putting it in. The cost so little per lense that I just open up another lense and pop that in. Easy peasy!

@batgirlp5561 Жыл бұрын

I saw a poster about the Myopia epidemic in my ophthalmologist's office, but I figured she just want to create more business. But now that I see it's on KZfaq, it has to be real.

@axlking-hp2vh Жыл бұрын

I'm optometrist ,this is gold fo my research ando My pacients

@otiebrown9999 Жыл бұрын

Good. Help them go from 20/60 to 20/20. Help your children do this!

@WhiteWolfBlackStar Жыл бұрын

I can see all the colors in my right eye. I can see green and red in my left eye, but no blue or purple. Around 37:00 8 seconds and you're done! Oh thank you, this segment gives me so much hope!

@Bob-yl9pm Жыл бұрын

Being outside also exercises our long distance focusing more! ( lens muscle)

@kathleenking47 Жыл бұрын

You'll need reading glasses later..they're cheaper though😋 Also, ifmother or father was on drugs around conception, this could happen...when the eye us hit by heroin when exposed in amniotic fluid

@iiio12 Жыл бұрын

Being outside gives a boost to the immune system, similar study can be done on any disease with positive results. There's correlation with income level which may point to food (GMO & chemicals), modern science is on the payroll and far from free thinkers, they may avoid such discoveries for decades.

@Scarlettbankergirl Жыл бұрын

I am 62 and severely myopic. I read a lot as a kid but also spent lots of time outside. Neither of my parents ever wore glasses until they were middle-aged but all my siblings are myopic, I'm the worst.

@Scarlettbankergirl Жыл бұрын

@@vddtukhfryh they wore readers in middleage.

@wintersprite 11 ай бұрын

I have Amblyopia and Strabismus in my left eye (I actually had it on both as a baby but surgery was able to correct my right eye. Unfortunately the surgery failed twice on my left eye). I also developed myopia around the time I got to junior high. Luckily my myopia is mild and over the past year I decided to try experimenting with not wearing my glasses for close-up work. In my right eye, my myopia went from 1.25 last year to 1.0 this year. Because my brain suppresses most of the input from my left eye (other than peripheral) when both eyes are open, it is harder to be able to try to strengthen both so I’m focusing more on my right eye.

@jeffreysummers6843 7 ай бұрын

Try wearing under corrected by -0.25 for your distance when driving or outside. Also pushing the screen back in addition to not wearing glasses while doing close up work helps.

@Rehook2 Жыл бұрын

In contrast with the one you did on Namibia this one is really good. Congrats

@ThisNinjaSays_ Жыл бұрын

When one of your parents is shortsighted, you live in a densely populated city in a high rise building. Going to a school that hands our tablets, avoids printing stuff, requires all handing ins to be digital and hardly ever spend time out in the sun. And your parents highly value education and reading.Then you my friend are guaranteed to have myopia.

@ThisNinjaSays_ Жыл бұрын

I grew up in a stand-alone house, loved reading books and didn't like the outdoors much. So last year I got my introvert, bookworm niece a Jack Russell Terrier which she loves dearly and she has no choice but to be outside to walk and play with the pup. Hopefully her eyes will fair better than mine and other members of our family.

@Augfordpdoggie 10 ай бұрын

fascinating. i went mostly blind at age 7 from Myopia. Thankfully I wear contacts and can see, but both of my parents had bad vision

@anhedonianepiphany5588 Жыл бұрын

Obviously not _too_ much “sun on your face.” The damage to the eye from UV light can be far worse than myopia, not to mention the cancer risk to one’s skin generally. It’s not such a problem in many places, but it certainly is in Australia (low myopia, high cataracts/melanomas).

@chudheadquarters7949 Жыл бұрын

How do you know the sun - which nourishes life all across the earth - is causing cancer? Is it possible it could be related to something else? Benzene in sunscreen, perhaps? Most people who get plenty of sun look really healthy, to me.

@hannahcrossett3415 Жыл бұрын

Myopia wasn't detected until I asked my grade teacher if a color was called "green" or "leaves" since those words were used interchangeably.

@CandyGirl44 Жыл бұрын

So mine was caused by measles - I was around just before vaccines became widespread. I was very sick, and as I got better after 2 weeks, I got bored on my own at home and opened the curtains. Then, because my immune system was so down, I got a bad case of Scarlett fever, when I was too ill to go to the doctor, he had to come to me. After that, my sight just went, I could no longer go to the beach and swim on my own, couldn't read the blackboard at school, I was terrified that I was going blind as a child.

@bardaasht007 Жыл бұрын

Great documentary. Few questions arise: 1) Post-pandemic, tech has become an integrated part of schooling. Doesn't using smart devices in open environment where watching screens which generally put a strain on eyes, affect the small school going kids. 2) Smart devices emit blue lights, and are stated to be harmful. How can it be useful in preventing myopia which sounds ironical?

@dekev7503 Жыл бұрын

I started noticing that the board was no longer clear when I was in high school around 14-16. By My freshman year in college I couldn't see the board no matter how close I was to it. I realised that I needed glasses.

@greenleafyman1028 Жыл бұрын

Outdoor long distance target shooting, camping, riding a bicycle/motorcycle and hiking exposed yourself in long distance sightings thus helps you reduced your risk of myopia. Also avoid too much short distance seeing like Watching TV, PC, Smartphones and even Reading Books. And no, I'm not a boomer, I'm 22 years old.

@flxmkr Жыл бұрын

Thankfully for me, my mom loved her soaps! So she was always telling us to go out and play. If I was responsible for the study, my peer-study would’ve been titled: “Parents who watch soap operas have children with 20/20 vision”

@ToneyCrimson Жыл бұрын

I think it has something to do with reading, the more you read the worse it gets. My eyesight got a lot worse after i started in university, and the only thing that changed is i read most of the days usally. Maybe stress also has something to do with it, who knows. It also makes sense that Asia would get hit hardest, considering how much they value education there. And i know correlation does not equal causation... Oh nvm they mention what i said in the video further in lol.

@anythingpeteives Жыл бұрын

Would be interesting with regard to being outside, and the reduction of the likelihood to develop myopia, if someone did a study where they had 2 groups who spent the same amount of time outside, but 1 group spent it only reading and the other group did any activity of their own choosing. This would determine whether it is simply exposure to outside light that is slowing the incidents or whether the actual activity whilst outside also contributes to that reduction. I believe that just being outside is not the whole story, but it is combined with the fact that, when you are outside, your eyes are having to do a whole lot more with focusing from near objects to ones at a distance, which gives them a much more thorough workout when compared to being inside.

@hannahbonanza Жыл бұрын

i spent most of my childhood outside and have severe myopia

@anythingpeteives Жыл бұрын

@@hannahbonanza no one in that documentary said it was the perfect cure. Only that results showed a 300% reduction.

@lorimav Жыл бұрын

@@hannahbonanzaNeed pre-formed vitamin A from quality grass fed butter and meat fats, etc. also. CAFO beef is also a problem.

@mrhatman675 Жыл бұрын

@@hannahbonanza you are special

@hannahbonanza Жыл бұрын

@G E T R E K T okay :3

@sagarshrestha5800 Жыл бұрын

Reason for me to be myopic is I used to watch (cathode ray) TV through concave mirror. Started with watching tv and later exaggerated by reading closely . I needed to wear the glasses 24 hr to see clearly. Before wearing glasses , I could see more distance clearly than after prolong wearing the glasses which caused my eye to lose its accomodation ability.

@bobinpune Жыл бұрын

Tv through concave mirror? How?

@sagarshrestha5800 Жыл бұрын

@@bobinpune Reflection. It will make the image larger.

@Jasmine215100 Жыл бұрын

You can develop Myopia from the diopter reading of -0.25 or -0.75 all the way up to -37 diopter readings, near blindness!

@otiebrown9999 Жыл бұрын

As science, it is truth. I am going from 20/50 to 20/20. No one else, is interested.

@Jasmine215100 Жыл бұрын

@@otiebrown9999 20/20 is pretty good though!

@aurelianspodarec 4 ай бұрын

@@Jasmine215100 Eh, 20/15 better and that thereis a scam

@evasz814 Жыл бұрын

Great program. Thank you. What about sunglasses? We were told to wear sunglasses to protect our eye sight from sunlight.

@Jumper4ever93 Жыл бұрын

People who wear sunglasses and work in dark places are more likely to suffer from cataracts later in life.

@romeovelasco4151 8 ай бұрын

All the lights outside seen in nature is vitamins to the eyes. Long-range focusing is important. Looking at gadgets and screens indoors increases myopia due to long exposure to short-range focusing which also causing eye fatigue and focal seizures...

@debralarive Жыл бұрын

I didn’t SEE that coming!

@chonpincher Жыл бұрын

During the day, children study their books and write. At home, high in their tower block, there is no space for them to run around and play extensive games. Rather, they will play video games and engage with social media on a small screen. The screens that will occupy most of their time in young adulthood are a bit bigger but still pretty close up. We are guaranteed generations of myopic people.

@epaminon6196 Ай бұрын

0:45 _"Once myopia has been diagnosed, it can not be reversed and perfect vision will never return."_ My myopia stablilized 10 years ago at -2.25. I got ICLs implanted last week and had 20/15 vision one day after the operation.

@JohnDoe-et8th Жыл бұрын

I'm in my 70s and have been very myopic (20/400, at least) for well over 60 years. I started to read a LOT at age seven and became rapidly myopic until around the age of 11 (and I spent PLENTY of time outside playing; one parent had 20/40 vision but other perfect vision). I find this a bit alarmist. It DOES merely mean wearing glasses--there is an increased risk of other eye problems when you get to be elderly but otherwise, put the glasses on. We're in a world where it's impossible not to be a screen/book person. The enormous increase in China is obviously due to the enormous increase in education over the last 30+ years. It's like modern dentistry--the contemporary lifestyle ain't paleo and needs all kinds of correction.

@user-tb5fc6yr7o Жыл бұрын

Its not only elderly. Malignant myopia increases risk of retinal detachment. Can happen at any age

@ewaoconnor7013 Жыл бұрын

It’s great to get some good news 🤓 One more reason to keep taking my daughter for daily walks in a park 🌳

@TheSunMoon Жыл бұрын

I have both myopia and astigmatism. What a deal from the Creator. 🤣

@lorimav Жыл бұрын

I have myopia as well as mild astigmatism, about 3/4 in the astigmatism. Wearing gas permeable lenses automatically correct up to 1/2 a diopter. They solve my astigmatism problem without a prescription for it also.

@leni3765 Жыл бұрын

You'll always look good to you 😘 😅

@jennaywilliams7664 Жыл бұрын

I've been wearing glasses since I was 5 years old. Both of my daughters wear glasses; please. You will be okay.

@OriginalContent89 Жыл бұрын

Same. Woe is us

@eduardbass839 Жыл бұрын

An interesting Theory I have read about is that shortsightedness is corresponding with a lack of sunlight as a necessary enzyme controlling the growth of the eye isn’t produced in proper amounts.

@otiebrown9999 Жыл бұрын

A pure scientific question; Can a minus lens cause myopia - in all normal eyes? Give me a simple YES or NO.

@katetorode8411 Жыл бұрын

Surely it's that everything is so close our eyes very rarely need to focus at distance. I have only 1 window that has a view more than the other side of the street. Even without screen time we just don't use the muscles needed to focus at distance

@mjlivie Жыл бұрын

its obviously SMARTPHONES and staring at them so much in younger ages

@greenleafyman1028 Жыл бұрын

Not just smartphones, reading books also gives us myopia. We should exposed our eyes in long distance sighting like ancestal humans usually do when hunting.

@mommasoto Жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Natural free solution. Sunlight and all its spectrum is the best medicine. I can't help but wonder if photobiomodulation (red light therapy) that is already being used in age related macular degeneration in many studies could reverse it? Never say never. Would love to see a study using that across the myopic age board.

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@hummakavula1304 Жыл бұрын

Going outside is for seeing movement other than the benefits of sunlight. Therefore, if outdoor activity is not available, moving your head/eyes will help.

@cmvamerica9011 Жыл бұрын

My eyesight was good until the first time I had my eyes dilated; after that, my vision slowly worsened.

@shubhacr6151 Жыл бұрын

This is a very informative documentary that puts facts, figures and solutions in the simplest way possible! Great job!👏🏻 Many thanks to the tireless efforts of all the researchers and their subjects - due to whom, we can now see the future clearly! 👍🏼😊

@gl2461 Жыл бұрын

Thats so weird cause lately my eyea have been having hard time seeing far lately even went to see my optometrist two weeks ago about it 😅

@jasonbowman7190 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know if daylight lights help reduce if you can't get outdoors in the winter? 🤔. This documentary was insightful.

@elitemedium Жыл бұрын

You already know the answer...... You don't need any kind of insight or advice......good luck on your sharp awareness bro keep it up... 🔯👁️☯️👁️🔯....only few of us knows it..

@sardhasamarasekera9636 Жыл бұрын

How will the blue light protection feature now advertised when we visit the eye appointment will impact the progress of myopia.

@NoirL.A. Жыл бұрын

i had perfect 20/20 my whole life until i hit my early 40's. i would mostly put it down to aging but i also strongly suspect my vision is getting worse because i spend an exhorbitant amount of time staring at a computer screen which lest we forget is a highly unnatural activity in terms of human evolution. at the moment i only need reading glasses but that could very well change at some point. be that as it may i didn't grow up with the internet (born in 68) but now that i have it i'm a full blown addict in fact the internet is alot of the reason why i don't drink anymore because i was able to replace one addiction for another. youtube and wikipedia alone are massive parts of my life (not so big on social media). as with all things, i suppose, it has it's good and bad points i also tend to think that because i love learning and being entertained at the same time i'm badly overstimulated which is starting to cause memory problems.

@danielch6662 Жыл бұрын

Age 40, it isn't myopia. More likely, it is presbyopia. That is a completely different problem, that is inevitable, and affects everybody. The lens hardens with age. There is nothing, no exercise you can do that will prevent it or slow it down.

@jayarmstrong Жыл бұрын

Same 👌

@jessaC. Жыл бұрын

I have myopia and astigmatism and my doctor dont want me to stay in the sun a lot because my myopia will get worse and I'll get nousia and dizziness if I do. I feel it when I'm out in the sun and I feel dizzy.

@estycki Жыл бұрын

Those blue light lenses to protect against screen light always felt like a scam to me - I questioned how can blue light be bad for you when the sky is blue!!! 😂

@OriginalContent89 Жыл бұрын

1) The sky isn't blue. It appears blue due to the way light filters through the atmosphere 2) There are plenty of things that occur in nature that are bad for you