have you seen these motion sickness glasses going around on social media
tick tock a lot of people saying that it helps them with their car sickness with
their motion sickness and they've been around for a while but the question is
do they actually work how do they work we're going to go over that in this video let's focus in
the first thing i want to do is dive into the research dive into the studies about these glasses
but yeah as you can imagine i didn't really find a lot of research there aren't any published
research or studies done on these glasses which is kind of a bummer now i do think i found the origin
of these glasses they came from something called boarding glasses in fact you can go to the website
right now boarding glasses dot com now the ceo of that company said that their father actually
invented these glasses and actually did a study or a test on the prototype of these types of glasses
on the french navy now the results of that study or the test aren't really available but from that
test they claimed that up to 95 of the people that tested the boarding glasses actually helped them
with their seasickness and the reason why i say that number is because when you look at
the different products on amazon the different goggles that you can get they'll mention that
number they'll say hey these glasses might help up to 95 of the people with their motion sickness and
that's where that number came from now how in the world do these glasses work and to understand that
let's go over exactly why people experience motion sickness now your visual system your eyes and your
vestibular system your ears are linked together to help keep your balance now your vestibular system
can feel emotion it can sense motion when you're turning sense acceleration your visual system can
actually see the motion if there's a mismatch of those systems for example if you're sitting
in your car looking at your phone your vestibular system is sensing the motion the turns of the car
the acceleration of the car but your visual system is not seeing the motion it's looking at your
phone it's not actually seeing the motion anywhere and so the systems get mismatched and that's where
motion sickness comes from and you can experience dizziness lightheadedness headaches sweating
nausea and vomiting so these motion sickness glasses are designed to bring the balance of
your systems back together and you'll hear this phrase a lot artificial horizon it's designed with
four clear tubes two in the front two on the sides and it has colored fluid in there always telling
you where your level horizon is so if you're in a vehicle boat plane if you're turning to the left
to the right pitching up pitching down you have these visual cues telling you and matching what
you're feeling with your vestibular system now the instructions to use these they're all pretty much
the same they usually say when you're starting to feel the motion sickness symptoms that's when you
put the glasses on and you want to leave them on for at least 10 minutes they say that's how long
it takes to rematch your visual system with your vestibular system and then if your symptoms feel
better or it's gone you can actually poop just take them off now i've heard a lot of people
say that when they just get in the car they put them right on and they just leave them on during
the whole drive hoping that it will work better i don't know if there's any truth to that but
a lot of people say that's what they do and it works for them now do these actually work because
there's not a lot of research and studies done on them it's purely anecdotal and it could absolutely
be a placebo effect for a lot of people you'll get the range from people claiming that this is
curing their car sickness they don't feel any car sickness or motion sickness when they're wearing
these glasses all the way down to yeah these don't do anything and you'll hear everything
in between my wife tested these white ones out and she said that hey it probably helped a little bit
maybe took the edge off of her motion sickness her car sickness she gets carsick it's pretty bad
but it didn't really cure her symptoms or get rid of her symptoms but it might have helped
a little bit now what's nice about these is you can actually get these on amazon they can range
from 15 to 25 dollars so if you really do suffer from motion sickness or car sickness you've tried
other remedies this might be one worth a shot it could help you even if it's a placebo effect
and still helps you might as well go for it and yeah these things are awesome looking
these are the two that we got and tested out i'll put the links in the description below if you're
going to pick one out i'd probably definitely pick this one out uh the white one that i got
there's a few things that i didn't like about it uh one thing is that the peripheral rings on the
sides really are too far back i could barely even notice the color dye in there it's like pushed
too far back that my peripheral vision can't see it that that well and so the the black one
with the orange dye the orange color in there uh yeah i could definitely see the color on the
sides way better because it's pushed forward a little bit so i would probably stay away from
this one i'll put links in the description of other ones that i think will be better
but this one i probably stay away from it is cheaper but i just don't think it works as well
if it is going to work the nice thing about this pair is that it does have options on the colors
that you can get in the rings if you care about that if you're actually wanting to make a fashion
statement with these if you want to another bonus to getting these pairs that actually comes from
acupuncture wrist pads that targets an acupuncture point that supposedly could help with car sickness
and motion sickness that's kind of controversial in itself but that's something else you could try
and it actually comes in the same bundle now one thing that people get confused about is
motion sickness in vr that's actually something a little bit different it's called cyber sickness
you can experience similar symptoms in vr playing video games even looking at the computer
and i go over that in detail in this video right here now comment below if you've tried
motion sickness glasses i'm curious to know if they helped you also if you like this video like
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else out if they want to try these glasses i'm Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy, stay focused