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Considering current events, including the health care crisis and the global financial crisis, I found Dr. Roberto Kaplan's talk from a few years ago to be very relevant. Here is a summary of his talk I found somewhere (and I have since lost the source). I love the quote because I think it says a...
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I stopped doing all inverted yoga postures a couple years ago. The plow (plough, halasana) posture used to be one of my favorites. When I first started self-tonometry some years ago I did the plow posture for just a few minutes, then sat up and took some intraocular pressure measurements. My intraocular...
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I'm copying part of a report from http://www.livescience.com/health/080902-zen-meditation.html. Please see the original link for the full article. There is a very strong relationship between thoughts and intraocular pressure. I have been writing about it here on FitEyes.com for several years. One's...
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T his post is part of a series of articles intended to help you understand the relationship between your thoughts and your intraocular pressure. When I speak about the relationship between stress and eye pressure, many of us have a hard time making the connection -- because stress is a constant in most...
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This story has a positive end, but I did have a stressful situation yesterday in regards to my intraocular pressure. In the early afternoon I used the Tiolat iCare tonometer to measure my intraocular pressure, as I have been doing every day for a long time. I obtained seven intraocular pressure measurements...
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Starting with my first true 24-hour period of intraocular pressure data collection I was shocked to see how high my eye pressure rose while I was lying in bed and sleeping at night. My eye pressure more than doubled while I was sleeping, going from around 12 to around 25 mmHg. The diurnal intraocular...
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Part two of Best Foods for Fit Eyes and Great Vision . This is a continuation of the prior article on foods and vision. I attended a seminar recently where the speaker related a story of a man who was about to go blind and was able to restore much of his vision through a profound change in his diet....
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A couple days ago I wrote DNA Is Not Destiny , an article on FitEyes.com about epigenetics and how we can leverage that knowledge to create and maintain healthy vision. Today I found a related article I want to share with you. Here is an excerpt: By Kevin McKeever, HealthDay Reporter, Copyright ©...
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If you have glaucoma or elevated intraocular pressure, do you believe it is "in your genes?" If you believe glaucoma is entirely genetic, do you also believe you are stuck with glaucoma the rest of your life? The orthodox view is that glaucoma has a large genetic component and that if you develop...
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Dear Glaucoma Patient, Welcome to FitEyes.com ! I am Dave and I founded FitEyes.com two years ago. This site publishes original articles about intraocular pressure and vision health from participants in our unique self-tonometry research program. I and...
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This talk on the TED website by Jill Bolte Taylor about how she, as a brain scientist, was given the rare opportunity to study the brain from the inside out parallels many discussions here on FitEyes.com. If you have an interest in consciousness, energy medicine, the ego and related health topics, this...
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I want to highlight three different approaches to performing home eye pressure monitoring (self-tonometry). Normally, I focus most of my attention in my blog on the approach I use. However, I thought it would be educational to contrast my approach with two other approaches. I'll discuss each one...
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This is something else I want to share from my inbox. A friend, who I will keep anonymous, send me this comment in an email today: "I was mentioning self-tonometry to one of my parents. I said that, at the very best, we can hold off (or even reverse) loss for ever. And at worst, we can delay the...
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One of the FitEyes.com members asked a question about the changes in intraocular pressure after sex in a comment to an earlier post on my blog about the potential relationship between masturbation and eye pressure . I'm going to give you an estimate of the intraocular pressure changes after sexual...
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With the recent website upgrade to FitEyes.com, I decided to send an email to all registered member. While writing the email I was inspired to discuss more of my experiences with self-tonometry, the process of monitoring my own eye pressure. After I wrote and sent the email, I realized that we have a...