I had a great discussion the other week with my followers on TikTok. They had some great questions that I wanted to share with you. We dove into how to improve your vision and when and where to use your stronger lenses. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

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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.

Hey, everybody, it's Dr. Sam. And I want to welcome you to TikTok live. I'm here in the Nob Hill section of Albuquerque taking some meetings today. And I'm really glad to be here. I've got a couple of questions that we're going to take at least starting off. So yeah, I'm in the middle of the city this. This is Nob Hill. We got some kids over there playing around. So hey, very, they're very curious about what I'm doing. Okay, well, let's take the first question. Somebody is asking about my nearsightedness. Yeah, I was very nearsighted as a kid, and somebody was asking, well, how nearsighted? And how did I? How did I improve it? Well, you know, when I was, when I was a kid, I was not a very good reader. And one of the ways that I got through school was memorizing. And I grew up in a family that really emphasize school education. You know, I had an uncle, who knew like eight foreign languages, I used to go visit him. And he was so smart. I had two uncles and Ananth. And they were just that part of the family, my father's side of the family, they were just so smart. So there was a lot of pressure on me to do well in school. And I think what I did is I put it into my eyeballs, in terms of my tension.

And so I became nearsighted as a way to survive and get through high school and college. And what was interesting was, is that as my prescription can kept getting worse, I discovered that, you know, I was really interested in the eyes. And so when I went to optometry school, and I started to study the eye, it was purely from a eye disease level. And, you know, that's what most education is about. And what I learned in school was is that your eyes only get worse as you get older. And so, fast forward, I was graduating and, you know, I was more interested in healing and improving than just treating disease. But I happen to meet a doctor who ended up becoming my mentor, and his name was Dr. Shankman, Dr. Albert H Shankman. And he wrote a book called Vision enhancement training. He was also a yoga teacher. And so when I discovered yoga and meditation in my late 20s, and early 30s, I called him up and I started to work with him. And I used to live in Philadelphia at the time, and he was up in Central Connecticut. So I would drive up once a month, and I would spend the weekend, you know, he was actually doing a seminar with a group of young eye doctors.

So I, I got into that class. And I began to study with him, and then I became a patient of his. And pretty immediately what happened was, I began to feel that the prescription that I was given was just too tight for me. And I started to have an awareness that if I were something less, even though I didn't see it as clearly, I actually felt calmer and less hyperactive. And so what, what happened over like a six month period is my my vision kept improving. And then I hit a wall,