How To Keep Your Vision Healthy

How To Keep Your Vision Healthy

Our eyes are kinda underrated. Life gets real tough if you can't see clearly. Thankfully, there are specific activities that help sustain healthy vision by the time you're old. Here's what Andrew say in the vision episode:

In fact, if you're a young person and you feel as if you see the world perfectly, you are in the best position to bolster, to reinforce that visual system, so that you don't lose your vision as you age. In addition, you can leverage your visual system for better mental and physical performance. - AH

P.S. Huberman is professor of ophthalmology (eyes). This is his main expertise.

So how do we get healthy vision? Rule #1 Use your eyes. You know how sitting makes your muscles and bones get weaker? Same for your eyes. They need to exercise.

Problem: Every time you look at a laptop, phone, or TV, your eyes are fixed at a near, tiny location relative to what they were used to for ages. They're sedentary. They're not moving through full "range-of-motion" and switching gears between near and far. So they become negligent and atrophy.

Solution:
1. Move your eyes in many directions. You can do this by simply watching live sports. Ex. a tennis ball going back and forth. ​
2. Look at far objects. Ex. the horizon or far building.

Anyone of these is fine: watch things moving or look at something far.

Won't get into should I do this or that, how many sets, duration, whatever. Right now, just exercise. Anything is better than nothing. Can you just spend the next minute looking at something far? Maybe do that again later in the day before commuting, or right after a work bout.

You won't suddenly have crystal clear vision. This is a long-term investment. Every second is worth it in a few years. Oh, and no, you can't use mental visualization (spoiler: tomorrow's tool).

Anyway, it's just a couple of minutes today. Use your eyes.

Here's the full episode.

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