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I’d really like to find a “natural” way of improving my eyesight. I’ve been nearsighted for a long time, and the first time I got glasses was when I was in 4th grade. We discovered it because one day I was sitting in Church, rather near the front, and I whispered to my Mother, asking who the altar servers were. She was astonished that I could not tell, and she realized that I must be myopic since I could not see them. I’m not sure why this was really a surprise, as both she and my Father (although his are for farsightedness) wear glasses on and off, but I guess it was a bit of a shock since my older brother had never needed glasses — so it have been well over a decade of parenting without the necessity for optometry occurring to them. God-willing my children will have perfect eyesight — like my wife — but this is something I have vowed to detect early and treat in them if they do have it. So far so good though, they both have amazing vision and can spot airplanes and birds at greater distances than I.

Since it turns out that nutrition is so important for all aspects of health, and so neglected in our modern “advanced” society, I started causally researching nutrition-myopia links… I haven’t found much worth reporting back yet, so think of this a placeholder for future R&D.

Another thing that I have been interested in is “Chinese eye exercises.” Now, I have seen many people from that country wearing glasses, so there must not be a ubiquitous solution, but it is something I would like to look into (pun intended). I remember doing various sight exercises with pencils and cards with red and green targets on them when I was a child but I forget the context.

I wonder if the aboriginal tribes or Native Americans or any such indigenous cultures have traditions and cures regarding poor eyesight? Or perhaps it is only an affliction experienced by the malnourished modern peoples, like tooth decay and so many other things…