Do These Natural Vision Improvement Techniques Work or is Dr. Oz Wrong?
Dr. Oz is a respected, but sometimes controversial, doctor who suggests a wide range of all-natural health treatments that may or may not work. Recently, his website posted a blog by Mao Shing describing three natural techniques that you can use to improve your vision. Are these techniques actually workable or is is Dr. Oz Wrong?
Vitamin Supplements
The first item on Shing's list is vitamin supplements: he suggests a litany of supplements, such as vitamin C, beta-carotene, and calcium as a proper way to improve your vision quickly and easily. Are his suggestions spot-on or do they make little to no sense?
The truth is, everyone of the vitamins he suggested will actually …show more content…
He suggested warming your eyes by creating heat with your palms, rolling them in your eye sockets, focusing on a pen, and massaging your temples.
The only problem with these suggestions is that they seem to ignore the reality of how vision problems occur. Almost all vision problems revolve around misshaped eyes or damage to sight apparatus. Warming your eyes with your hands would seemingly do little to help make them longer.
Even worse, many eye exercise programs have been discredited as little more than snake oil, with many companies being sued and forced to sell their product. It looks like this one is busted.
A Good Night's Sleep
So Shin has suggested one reasonably good technique another one that doesn't quite pass luster. What about his third suggestion about sleeping to improve your vision? Is this suggestion too good to be true or is there some real science behind it?
It appears this may be the strongest of all of his suggestions. Sleep and vision are highly interrelated: your eyes need at least five hours of sleep every night to repair damage and refresh. Any less can cause damage to your eyes and even cause conditions like dry
Dr. Oz is a respected, but sometimes controversial, doctor who suggests a wide range of all-natural health treatments that may or may not work. Recently, his website posted a blog by Mao Shing describing three natural techniques that you can use to improve your vision. Are these techniques actually workable or is is Dr. Oz Wrong?
Vitamin Supplements
The first item on Shing's list is vitamin supplements: he suggests a litany of supplements, such as vitamin C, beta-carotene, and calcium as a proper way to improve your vision quickly and easily. Are his suggestions spot-on or do they make little to no sense?
The truth is, everyone of the vitamins he suggested will actually …show more content…
He suggested warming your eyes by creating heat with your palms, rolling them in your eye sockets, focusing on a pen, and massaging your temples.
The only problem with these suggestions is that they seem to ignore the reality of how vision problems occur. Almost all vision problems revolve around misshaped eyes or damage to sight apparatus. Warming your eyes with your hands would seemingly do little to help make them longer.
Even worse, many eye exercise programs have been discredited as little more than snake oil, with many companies being sued and forced to sell their product. It looks like this one is busted.
A Good Night's Sleep
So Shin has suggested one reasonably good technique another one that doesn't quite pass luster. What about his third suggestion about sleeping to improve your vision? Is this suggestion too good to be true or is there some real science behind it?
It appears this may be the strongest of all of his suggestions. Sleep and vision are highly interrelated: your eyes need at least five hours of sleep every night to repair damage and refresh. Any less can cause damage to your eyes and even cause conditions like dry