You Call THAT eye care?
Martin Sussman
I’m always amazed that eye doctors, optometrists and opticians are called eye care professionals. What kind of eye care do they really provide? NONE. Sure, if you go to them with an eye problem, they’ll fix it: with stronger and stronger glasses, expensive contacts, risky surgery, cataract surgery, glaucoma pills, etc. etc.
But the only promise they offer your vision is that it will get worse and worse.
That’s not real eye care, that’s eye-problem-fixing. They’re skilled at fixing any eye problem you bring, but guess what? You’ll be bringing them problem after problem, year after year, because they never teach you anything about REAL eye care.
What can you do to keep your eyes healthy? What can you do to maintain your eyesight? How do you keep yourself from needing cataract surgery? From going half blind, or worse, from macular degeneration?
These “eye care” professionals don’t have any answers for any of that. What’s even worse, they denigrate and dismiss anybody who suggests that there are answers!
Some might say that eye care professionals are just concerned about making money. I’m not sure that’s their only motivation, but let’s face it – they’re not really interested in offering REAL eye care.
We know more about how to care for our teeth than we know about how to care for our eyes. Yet, if you were faced with the choice, which would you rather lose?
Fifty or so years ago, people were faced with a similar choice. Back then, no doctor believed that proper exercise or a nutritious diet would keep you healthier. “There’s no proof,” they’d say. (That may be hard to believe nowadays, but that was their position back then.)
Well, people took matters into their own hands. They started running, doing yoga, meditating, eating right, etc. etc. They got themselves healthier by themselves. They realized that health care professionals weren’t going to get them healthy or even keep them healthy. It was only after this groundswell of individuals taking care of themselves that researchers began to study exactly how all of these activities benefited the body.
Wait for the research, wait for the proof – that might seem like the logical thing to do, but how much should your eyesight suffer while you wait?
Just because something isn’t proven yet, it doesn’t mean that it’s not effective. It just means that the health care industry has decided to not bother to research that issue.
So then, what is REAL eye care? I’ll address this in future posts.
If you want to find out more right away, read The Program for Better Vision book. It’s all in there.
5 comments November 16th, 2006
