The Truth About Vision: Why Glasses Make It Worse

1. The eyewear industry: a giant that profits from correction

The global eyewear market is huge — in the hundreds of billions of dollars annually — driven by rising demand for prescription lenses, sunglasses, and frames. The industry’s role is to correct what’s broken while selling new prescriptions as vision changes over time. (Market reports place global eyewear well over $150–200 billion per year.)

2. Glasses correct vision — they don’t always treat the root cause

When you put on glasses you immediately see more clearly. That’s the point. But many forms of poor vision (especially progressive myopia — nearsightedness caused by the eye growing longer) are structural changes to the eyeball (axial length). Stronger lenses simply refocus light; they don’t reliably stop the eye from elongating. Clinicians emphasize that glasses are not by themselves a solution to progressive myopia (optometry guidance).

“Glasses improve visual acuity, but they are not a solution for controlling progressive myopia.” — Review of Optometry

3. The real environmental drivers: screens, indoor living, and lack of sunlight

Modern life steers us indoors: screens, offices, close work, and short far-vision exposure. A big and consistent finding in eye research is that time spent outdoors (brightness and looking at distance) reduces the risk of developing myopia in children. Several controlled studies and population analyses link more outdoor light exposure with lower incidence of myopia; conversely, greater screen/near-work time is associated with higher myopia risk (Nature Eye Journal, PubMed study).

4. Use it or lose it — eye muscles need distance, light, and movement

Your eyes are surrounded by muscles that control focus and alignment. Like any muscle system, they adapt to use. Habitually focusing at near distances (phones, tablets) reduces the healthy stimulus for far-focus and bright-light signaling. Getting routine outdoor exposure — and deliberately practicing distance-looking — provides the stimulus your eyes evolved to receive.

5. Nutrition matters: egg yolks, lutein & zeaxanthin, and vitamin D

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Diet supplies the building blocks your eyes need. Key nutrients with evidence for supporting retinal and macular health include lutein and zeaxanthin (macular carotenoids) and vitamin D. Egg yolks are a concentrated, bioavailable source of lutein and zeaxanthin — eating an egg a day has been shown to raise blood levels of these carotenoids (study link). Vitamin D has emerging evidence for supporting retinal physiology and ocular surface health (PubMed reference).

Carnivore-style (food-first) recommendations

• Egg yolks daily: rich in lutein/zeaxanthin and fat to help absorption — an easy way to boost macular pigments (clinical study).
• Fat-soluble vitamin D: get safe sun exposure when possible; dietary sources (fatty fish, organ meats) or measured supplementation if low (vitamin D & retina research).
  

  The best complex for your eyes – here 

• Whole foods, animal fats, and fat for absorption: carotenoids and vitamin D are fat-soluble; eating them with natural fats improves uptake.

The best complex for your eyes – here 

6. Practical daily plan (simple, carnivore-friendly)

1. Sunlight first thing: 20–60 minutes daily outdoor exposure (morning/afternoon) — protects against myopia development and supports vitamin D synthesis (evidence link).
2. Eat real food for your eyes: 1 egg yolk daily (or several per week), oily fish, and organ meats for vitamin A/D and carotenoids.
3. Practice distance-looking: every 20–30 minutes look at a distant object for 20–60 seconds; build “far-focus” into your day.
4. Limit continuous screens: reduce prolonged near work, especially for kids — replace some screen time with outdoor play (JAMA Ophthalmology study).
5. Use glasses when necessary: wear corrective lenses for safe, comfortable vision — but recognize they are corrective tools, not cures (