Is there any way you can improve your vision without wearing glasses or contact lenses?

Question

Just curious.

Answer 1

Yes there is. There is a treatment called natural vision improvement. It consists of various eye exercises that will restore clear eyesight.

There are some people who debate the efficiency of eye exercises, but they do work!

For more information about eye exercises go here:
http://www.refractiveeyedisorders.com/ryv

Healthy diet is also very important for improving vision:
http://www.refractiveeyedisorders.com/opf

Other than natural vision improvement there is laser eye surgery and ortho-k.

For more information about laser eye surgery go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASIK

Ortho-k is a way of treating refractive disorders by wearing special contact lenses that reshape the cornea.

For more information about Ortho-k go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthokeratology

Best regards,

Answer 2

There's actually NO way anyone can improve their vision, at all!

Your vision is the best you can see WHEN your eyes are focused.

So if you are Emmetropic (normal), the smallest letter you can see on the chart will be 20/20 or the 20/15 or the 20/10 letter. Won't be able to see the 20/5 one. It's just too small to make out at 20 feet. The measure is the angle that two lines subtend (is that the right word?) and you can still see that there are two little lines with a space between them and not a fuzzy single line.

If you are nearsighted (myopic) then you can see close better than far. You can see close up to a certain distance. Beyond that, blurry. Out of focus. The vision is not broken. Can't be improved, it's not in focus. You can improve the image quality by focusing the camera, the eye, but that best it can do is the best it can do.

So eating stuff, taking EYE vitamins or ocular vitamins or supplements or carrots, or kale or tomatoes or green this or that or....won't work to make your vision improve. It might help it maintain it's level longer (think macular degeneration), but won't "improve" it.

same with eye exercises.

Moving your eye up and down and left and right, and fooling around with close images and far images, and making the circles line up or become one circle are all ways to modify the environment and play with the sensory adaptations the eye and brain use for us to see. Not going to make your retina 'better'.

Our eyes and animal eyes and bug eyes and fish eyes and ? eyes adapt according to the animal, what the animal needs to see, how it needs to see, what it needs to see, to survive. Our eyes do just fine for what we 'need'. They're actually quite amazing, unbelievably amazing.

Animal eyes are "made" according to what the animal does or needs to see. Take the dog or dogs, or coyote or wolf or? When the light from your car hits their eyes, they reflect back a bright reflex.That reflex is almost white in color. Sometimes it's a blue color or pink color or orange color.

If we were to dilate a dog's eye and look at the retina, we'd see that the top half is white or shiny and the bottom half is brown or dark, like ours (humans). As the dog looks straight ahead, the sunlight hits the eye from the top, goes through the pupil and lands on the bottom of the retina which absorbs the light. There's no glare which would blind the dog.

But at night, when lights are low, dim, dogs can see fairly well. The top half of the retina has a membrane behind it that's shiny, sort of like the shiny white tendon one sees in a butcher shop sometimes. This tapetum reflects the light like a mirror. This way the dim light image goes through the pupil, goes through the retina stimulating it once, hits the tapetum or mirror which reflects the light back the same way it came, it passes through the retina again and out.

The retina is stimulated twice by the same light. Dogs see better in the dark than we do.

Some birds, have very different eyes. If we look in the back of a human eye, we see the nerve with all the retinal blood vessels coming out, and a center area called the Macula. this area has no blood vessels in the central 50 microns or so, and the cells are arranged so that only the photoreceptors and their connections are there. The cell bodies are pushed to the sides making a little mound all around the center. If we looked at it from the sides it'd look like a dimple with a sort of elevated side, sort of like a volcano that collapsed in the center.

Birds, some birds have two. One in the center corresponding to distance vision, and one to the side that lines up exactly to the end of their beak. So they don't have to suddenly look towards their nose or beak when flying at 30 mph and catching a bug going the other way at 20 mph. They just see well there already.

The best you can do for your vision is protect it. Wear safety glasses when in labs. Wear glasses when on a bike or skateboard or anytime in a sport where elbows and fingers can find their way into an eye. Anything, anything that increases the chance of heart( of vascular disease is a factor in macular degeneration so that it makes it worse or makes it occur sooner in life (smoking).

Take good care of yourself. Exercise, eat right, sleep right, no drugs, ...that stuff....

(didn't mean to get off on all that other stuff, animal stuff...sorry)

Answer 3

Improve Your Eyesight Naturally

Answer 4

You can try doing exercises to improve your vision. I recently started doing eye exercises to try to improve my vision. I created a blog where I record my progress with the exercises.

My vision is 20/400, which is really poor.

Other people have posted comments about their experiences as well. You can check it out at:

http://improvingmyeyesight.com/blog

Here are some articles with some useful tips:

http://improvingmyeyesight.com/computers_and_your_eyes.html
http://improvingmyeyesight.com/Nutrition_and_Eye_Health.html

And here is a good vitamin/nutrient supplement for your eyes:

http://www.improvingmyeyesight.com/eye_vitamins.html

Hope this helps...

Answer 5

As the above person said eating carrots are good. They give your eyes lots of vitamin A (you could just take a vitamin.) Vitamin A slowly heals your eyes is one way to say it. Its nourishes your eyes.

Note: Either go carrot crazy or just don't expect too too much from it.

Answer 6

Prevent eye stress:
Don't read in the dark, don't watch tv in the dark.
Give your eyes resting times from computer monitor, look away and focus on further away objects.
Stay hydrated, wear sunglasses with UVA/UVB protection.

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Answer 8

When I was little, my parents told me that eating carrots a lot slowly improves your vision, but I don't know if that would be of any help to you.

Answer 9

You can try this and then browse for more information.
http://www.magiceye.com/