Is it possible to live a life without glasses or contact lenses? Find out how you can improve your eyesight! Jake Steiner from endmyopia.org shares his tips and tricks, so you too can go glasses free!
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Podcast 407: Ending Myopia – Fix Your Vision for Good
MARTIN: Hello, this is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast podcast! Today I have with me Jake Steiner, he is a hobbyist, an enthusiast, and an aficionado of eyesight. Jake shares with me that he does not have to make a living telling people what he’s going to be telling us today, which is fantastic because there is no money interest. He can actually tell you the truth because he doesn’t care about profit. Welcome, Jake Steiner!
JAKE: Thank you for the introduction, Martin! Nice to meet you, everyone!
MARTIN: Yeah, well, the Life Enthusiast village, there are quite a few of us! We have a 20-year history, and tens of thousands of people who have come by here, we have listeners from 190 out of the 195 countries. So, today is a day of explaining. What we can do for our eyesight. This is for people who are willing to explore seeing better, right?
JAKE: That is correct. The very short version is this: if you wear glasses if your vision isn’t perfect, if you have kids whose vision is compromised, ignoring your eyesight is an amazing fallacy, that I am observing humans are going through, because there is no pain associated with it, right? You try to eat better, you try to be in better shape, you try to lose weight, and you try to exercise. But as long as there is a quick fix, a thing you could stick in front of your eyes in the morning to see better, you just ignore it. And it is so integral to your entire wellbeing. It is entirely fixable, but people just trust the optometrists saying: “You have a genetic defect, so you have to wear these things in front of your face.” And I am basically here to say that that is not true.
MARTIN: That is a big, bold, ballsy statement! I like that!
JAKE: Well, and then, as you said, I am an enthusiast, I have been doing this also for just about 20 years. We have the largest online community of people dealing with eyesight. The website had like 1.2 million regular visitors this year, it is a big community of people that have realized this. I grew up with glasses, I got them in my early teens, and it began a real shift in who I was in hindsight. I stopped playing team sports, I became afraid of the ball! So soccer, basketball, whatever the sport was, I wasn’t doing it anymore.
MARTIN: What was your problem specifically?
JAKE: Just short-sightedness, like most kids, minus 5 diopters, ultimately.
MARTIN: So you couldn’t see really much at all without the glasses on, right?
JAKE: Nothing, I couldn’t find my glasses without them, ultimately. I started at -1, -1.5, and just every year it went up a little bit.
MARTIN: I know a lot of people who are like that. And it is awesome that… I mean, looking at you with no glasses today… this is straight, no operation, no nothing else than the process that you are about to describe, and you are where we are now, right?
JAKE: Exactly, I don’t need glasses. Nobody needs glasses. Absolutely nobody needs glasses. I mean, for short-sightedness, if you started wearing glasses in your teens, you weren’t born needing glasses, but at some point, you started wearing glasses. There is no defect!