Hi guys!
Today I wanted to talk to you about eyesight: regaining eyesight and getting rid of those
"eye crutches".
My husband and I managed to improve our eyesight quite a bit in the last few years, and so
this is what this video is going to be about.
It's not that difficult, all you need is just a bit of self-motivation and a bit of effort,
and you can get your eyesight back, too.
So let's get started.
Three or four years ago we discovered this book called "The Secret Of Perfect Vision"
by David de Angelis.
He's an Italian doctor who had myopia or short-sightedness.
He decided to get rid of it naturally by using eye exercises instead of wearing eye crutches.
And he succeeded!
So this book is all about what he learned in his journey.
He's not a doctor, he's a lawyer, so he had to prove his ideas.
It's all about different scientific data and experiments, just to prove his point.
But you don't have to read the whole book.
All you need is just the part where he explains the exercises and what you need to do.
Or just keep watching this video and I'll tall you what to do as well.
This book is amazing.
I highly recommend it.
If you have eyesight problems or if you're a parent and your kid is developing eyesight
problems or is already wearing glasses, it's brilliant.
My husband at the beginning of the experiment had around -5, and I had around -2.5 to -3.
I've never really worn glasses, just because I didn't like the idea, and I don't drive,
so that's OK.
If I wanted to drive, I would have to wear glasses.
But just for every day life or for walking around, for being at home, it's perfectly
fine.
I'm glad I never started wearing glasses because if I did, my eyesight would be much worse
now.
My husband managed to cut his prescription in half, and now it's -2.50 in one eye and
-3 in the other one.
So that's amazing.
And I managed to reach around -1 to -1.5.
So that's also half of my prescription.
But we're going to restart the exercising again because we took a long break.
We both want to reach zero.
We really want to have perfect vision and I can see it in sight It's totally possible,
you just need to persevere.
So here's my story.
When I was around 11 or 12, they took all of our class at school to the hospital for
a check up.
My best friend and I both had the same kind of eyesight.
it wasn't very bad.
It was probably around -3.5 or -4.
But the nurse scared us to death because she said if we don't start wearing glasses right
now, we're going to get blind in a year's time or something like that.
I was so scared I didn't even tell my parents about it for a long time, until they found
out by themselves.
But basically, the moral is that I didn't start wearing glasses because I didn't tell
my parents, I kept going the way I was, and I never got blind, and my eyesight actually
got better and better with each year.
Instead, my best friend started wearing glasses and her eyesight got worse and worse and worse.
Now I think she has around -6 or -7.
The point is when you're a kid and your eyes are still growing, if you start wearing glasses,
your eyesight will definitely get worse until you stop growing.
If you're an adult and you start wearing glasses, there won't be such a huge difference.
But if you're a kid, it will definitely make a huge difference.
So if you are a parent and you have kids who are starting to develop any kind of eyesight
problems, please take them to eye exercises or teach them how to do these eye exercises.
But don't buy eye crutches for them.
Because if you do, their eyesight will just keep getting worse.
So definitely definitely definitely don't do that to your kids.
But even if you're an adult, you can still improve it naturally with these exercises.
Why are there so many people in the world still wearing glasses?
I think there are 4 reasons.
So first of all, it's all about the money, obviously.
Selling prescriptions and glasses is a huge business for companies.
They make a lot of money from it, especially if you buy designer frames, you're going to
pay probably at least 200-300 dollars for each pair.
Very often, when you go for a checkup, they will give you a stronger prescription saying
that your eyesight got worse and in that way they will sell you so many different pairs
of glasses in your lifetime.
Reason number two is that not many doctors talk about eye exercises.
Apparently, in Eastern Europe they still do, and in fact when my eyesight was bad, when
I was a child, the doctors did mention that we should go to the eye exercising classes,
which I never went to.
I really regret that because my eyesight would be perfect by now.
But in the Western world, doctors seem to not even know about them, not even talk about
them.
They just give the prescription for glasses and that's a real shame because if you catch
this early, it will be so much easier than if you wait until your eyesight gets really
bad with glasses and then you're an adult, and then you have to do exercising.
It's still possible, but it's much harder, so why not catch it early.
I just don't get it.
So reason number 3 is that the society nowadays is all about instant gratification and getting
results right away, right now, right here.
Nobody wants to exercise and make an effort for 6 months until they can get any kind of
results.
Although with these exercises you don't even have to wait that long.
You'll probably start getting results in a couple of weeks.
But even that is too much for people.
They don't want to put any kind of work into anything.
You know, wearing crutches I guess is easier than trying to fix your eyesight.
And the fourth reason is that people are so defensive of their eye crutches for some reason.
I don't even know why.
When we found out about this and started having incredible results, we started talking to
all our friends about it.
All the friends who were wearing glasses, especially with stronger prescriptions, we
started telling them about these exercises.
And guess what?
They were getting angry and super defensive.
I don't even know why.
They were saying that glasses are a part of their identity, a part of their style, and
they don't want to get rid of them.
You know, that's fine by me if that's your style.
But you can just get glasses with simple clear glasses without any diopters.
Why wear eye crutches?
That's something I don't understand.
If that's your style, keep it, but why do you need to get the muscles in your eyes weaker
and weaker by wearing glasses all the time?
I just don't get it.
But I don't get many things, so that's OK.
The theory behind these eye exercises is that your eyes are controlled by muscles, just
like your heart and your lungs, and your intestines, and most things in your body are controlled
by muscles.
When you look at things far away from you or if you look at a notebook, different eye
muscles are used.
The thing is that nowadays with computers and books, and studying all the time, we mostly
use the muscles in the near-sighted work.
In this way, we don't use the full range of our eye muscles They deteriorate, they get
weaker, they atrophy, and that's how you get myopia.
I'm not saying that all eyesight problems are because of that because there are all
kinds of problems.
But this is the majority.
However, these exercises, according to the author, will work for any kind of eyesight
problems: for myopia or short-sightedness, long-sightedness when you need reading glasses,
or even glaucoma - it will prevent those things or will help prevent any kind of age-related
diseases of your eyes.
But if you want more information, just read the book.
It's really really interesting.
it will give you lots more information about this.
Anything thing is that when you wear glasses and you go back for a checkup, for a yearly
checkup, very often they will give you a stronger prescription.
And that's because I've noticed that often they give prescription that are stronger than
what you need to get perfect vision.
You know that perfect vision is when you have 20/20 vision, but I noticed that when I got
my prescription a few years ago, which I needed to drive and I never got my driving license,
but that's another story.
When I got my prescription and I went back home, and I checked my eyesight, I actually
had 24/20, so that's more than you need to have perfect vision, so I was thinking, "Hmmm,
why are they doing that?"
And then I checked my husband's vision with his glasses and it was the same.
It was also 24/20.
Why would they make you see more than you need to see?
Well, my answer is that if your eye crutches are stronger than you need, then your eye
muscles will need to work less and less, and then they'll get weaker, and if they get weaker,
the next time you go to get a new prescription, you'll probably need stronger glasses.
And so they can see you another product.
I know that this is quite a strong accusation.
It might not be like that.
But then why would they prescribe you a prescription that is actually stronger than you need?
I just don't get it.
If you yourself are an eye doctor or an ophtalmologist - something like that, then please let me
know because I'm really curious.
I want to know why 20/20 vision isn't enough I just don't get it.
There are two different kinds of exercises in this routine.
The first kind is stretches, like going to the gym for your eyes.
It's quite fun.
And then the second part is something called de-focusing or fucusing exercises.
So for the first type, there are 5 different exercises, and you need to do them every second
day.
So you do them on one day, then the next day is a rest day, and then do them again the
next day.
And you need to do them in the morning and in the evening, and each time it will probably
take you around 10-15 minutes.
So it will be maximum 30 minutes every other day, so it's not that much.
The first one is you need to stretch your eyes by looking up and then looking down,
looking left, looking right, and diagonally to all the four sides.
And you need to keep your eyes there for maybe around 10 seconds, as long as it feels comfortable.
Just until your eyes get tired.
You need to go as far as your eyes will go.
So if it starts feeling uncomfortable and painful, that's when you need to stop.
It will probably be quite difficult.
I said it's like going to the gym, but it actually is.
My husband and I were sweating like crazy at the beginning.
It was seriously like a gym.
But that's normal.
A slight warning: you might get a bit of a headache for the first week two - that's also
totally normal.
It's just because your eyes are adjusting and they're getting tired.
You need to rebuild the muscle, that's totally normal.
But after those two weeks you'll find that you can work for so much longer without your
eyes getting tired or without starting to get double vision.
I forgot to mention: these exercises also work amazingly well if you're astigmatic.
I am an astigmatic, and these exercises helped a lot.
The second exercise is the same stretches, looking down, up, left, right, and so on,
but with your lids closed.
it's slightly more challenging, but it's fun.
It just makes you control your eyes so much better.
And then the third exercise is you need to do rotations with your eyes, but without moving
your head.
You need to also go as far as your eyes will go.
It will be slightly uncomfortable, slightly painful, but that's exactly where your eyes
need to be.
And you need to do 10 rotations on each side, so 10 clockwise and 10 counter-clockwise.
And then fourth exercise is the same rotations, but with your eyes closed.
This is quite challenging, but doable.
And then the fifth exercise is my favourite.
You need to pick an object that is close enough for you to be able to focus on it quite well.
So in my case it's the camera on the tripod right in front of me.
You need to focus on one part of that object and focus on it really well.
You need to rotate your head by keeping your eyes fixed on that object.
if you're tired or if it's evening time, you'll probably find that in some places you're getting
double vision.
That's definitely normal.
It's just because your eye muscles are tired, not very fit yet.
So don't freak out, that's normal.
You'll find that in a few weeks the double vision will totally disappear and that's just
another proof that your eyesight is getting better.
If you do it in public, people might think that you're mental, but that makes it even
more fun, doesn't it?
Yes!
So these are the 5 stretching exercises that you need to do.
And now the second part is called de-focusing.
For this, you need to take some kind of book or a magazine.
So I have a magazine here just for demonstration purposes.
You need to put it at a distance where you can still work out what's written.
It's kind of blurry, but you can still work it out if you try really hard.
And then stay there trying to read and you'll notice that in a while, maybe in 30 seconds
or a minute, you'll actually start seeing perfectly.
Your eyes will get used to it.
So once you reach that point, you need to move that magazine or book slightly further
away again until you again can just make out what's written.
It's blurry, but you can see.
Stay there until your eyes start focusing perfectly again, and then move it away slightly
again.
Repeat that for 30 minutes or so.
Ideally, you should do that every second day as well but to be honest we never did it that
often because it is quite time consuming.
You need around 30 minutes to do that.
So if you can't do it so often, that's OK, do it whenever you remember, it will still
be fine.
Now, if your prescription is around -3 or -2, then you need to get reading glasses of
around +2 and do this exercise with them.
And that's called anti-correction.
If your prescription is stronger, then you might have to do this exercise without wearing
any kind of glasses at all or perhaps get slightly weaker prescription, so let's say
if you're -7, then maybe get -3 or -4 or something like that.
Just to get something that would make it more challenging for your eyes.
it will make them stronger.
So that's it really.
It's super easy.
if you do these two exercises, you'll start noticing improvements very quickly, probably
within around a couple of weeks.
Then you'll start getting these flashes of perfect vision.
i totally freaked out when it happened once.
I was just walking on the street and suddenly I could read all the number plates of all
the cars around me.
I totally freaked out.
And then it went away after 30 seconds or so.
But as you go along and as you continue to do these exercises, you'll get more and more
of these flashes, they will be more and more frequent, and they will also get longer and
longer until you have perfect vision all the time.
Once your eyesight starts getting better, of course you will need a way to check it
for yourself.
So what you can do is go to the link (I put the link down in the description box) and
download your own Snellen chart, print it out and put it in a well-lit area where you
can check your eyes.
So in our old house in London, we used to have a garden door with the glass, so it was
really well backlit.
We put the Snellen chart on it and then we had a long corridor, so we could go 20 feet
back and it was just perfect.
But you can set it up in your own home, too.
it's super easy.
You just need good lighting.
You need to stand at 20 feet from that Snellen chart and you need to see how many of the
lines you can actually see.
We used to do that every Saturday and every single week there was improvement.
That's what I call instant gratification.
And then when your eyesight starts getting better, You'll of course need to change your
glasses quite often.
My husband used to change them every couple of months or every three months.
So you'll need a really cheap place where you can get your glasses If you're in Europe,
there is a really cool website called selectspecs.com, where we bought all of the glasses for my
husband.
They're really really cheap.
I think we used to spend between 10 and 15 pounds on each pair That's seriously cheap.
If you go to any normal shop, you'll spend at least a hundred.
So online shops are definitely the way to go.
I know that there are lots of them in the US as well, so it's not a problem.
When you start feeling that your eyesight is getting better, when you want to order
your new glasses, of course you need to have a prescription to know your pupillary distance
and so on.
But try to get slightly less diopters than you think you need because in that way your
eyes will be challenged all the time.
And you'll notice that in one month or so your eyesight will become perfect again.
Your eyes will get used to your glasses and that's when you need to move on to a slightly
lower prescription again, and again it will be challenging, but in a few weeks' time you'll
start seeing really well again.
And that's when you need to change your prescription again.
So don't be afraid to change your prescription to slightly less than you think you need.
And also if you're just walking around the house or going for a walk, don't be afraid
to not wear glasses.
Give your eyes a chance to work without the crutches.
It's definitely going to help them get stronger.
So these are the life-changing tips I wanted to share with you today.
it honestly it changed my husband's life so much, and it definitely helped me to regain
my eyesight as well.
it works so amazingly well.
I really really hope that you will give it a try.
If you do, I'd love to hear your success stories because my husband and I are obsessed with
this topic.
So please let us know if you try it and if you have any amazing results.
So I hope that you enjoyed this video.
If you did and if you know anybody who is wearing glasses and you'd like to help them,
then please share this video with them.
I'd really appreciate it and it would probably help somebody as well.
So thanks so much for watching and I'll see you in my next video.
Bye!