Get a Prescription that Supports Your Eyes

As I began to learn more about the holistic approach to eye care and worked with teachers in developmental optometry. They taught me how to prescribe lenses in a way that would help people improve their vision. One of the principles that they taught me, which works very well, is to actually wear the same power of the lens in each eye, even if one is slightly blurrier. So today, I am walking you through that process so you can work with your eyes instead of just fixing the symptoms. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, prescription, wear, lenses, vision, left, double, quarter, blurrier, contacts, nearsighted, optometrists, number, technique, creates, muscles, balancing, closer, lens, practice Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. And then there's kind of more radical philosophy. In addition to the contacts, which would be and I learned this from my teachers, they were I had, I had about five holistic, they were called developmental optometrists. When I was, in my first years of practice, I grew up on the East Coast. And so I began my first practice in Philadelphia, and I used to go up to Connecticut, and there were like five eye doctors, and they were in their 70s. And they taught me how to prescribe lenses in a way that would help people improve their vision. And one of the principles that they taught me, which works very well, is to actually wear the same power of the lens in each eye, even if one is slightly blurrier. Because when you wear the same lenses, it tells your brain and eyes to start integrating more like, it's like, it's like a Natural Vision exercise, it says, Okay, I'm meeting a quarter in my right, I'm seven and quarter in the left. So that means my right eye is focusing a little closer than my left eye needs more of my prescription, what if I gave both eyes minus seven and a quarter? Now my right eye is got to kind of match the left eye. And time and time again, when I started to do that, people would come back and say, Wow, this feels so much more relaxing, I'm not getting the eye strain. And the other thing about that is because you're at eight and a quarter, and seven and a quarter, or 950, and 850, you're in a natural double vision setup because the right eye is focusing at a closer focal distance than the left eye, you could, you could figure that out by holding a target. And with each eye separately, you probably have to hold the object closer to your right eye to get it clear, whereas the left eye is slightly farther away. So that's already creating an inherent double doubling. So and then, you know, you're overriding that, but then you get hit as you did. And that kind of creates this, this, you know, a trauma in the muscles in the eyes. So it's harder for you to kind of muscle it and keep it together and whatever. So my, my proposal, my proposal would be in the realm of saying, Well, what if, what if we got you a prescription in contact lenses, that would be the same in each eye soft lens. And also the number, you know, like, when it's eight and a quarter and glasses, it's going to be less of a number because it's closer to the eye. But on top of that, one of the techniques that worked really, really well for me, and I again, use it quite frequently with people that are nearsighted is I actually have them wear a prescription that corrects them more for computer or reading. So it's a,