Nov 25 - 15 | "What happened?! I have never worn glasses and now that I'm 45, my close vision is terrible - why?" This common question will be answered dozens of times this week in every eye doctor's practice. It is truly the #1 question that I am asked socially or in-office. Why do our eyes change so predictably and dramatically in our 40's?... When you look far away (with glasses if you need them) your eyes are relaxed... there is no effort or energy required by your eyes to make things clear. When you look up close your eye's auto-focus (accommodation) system kicks in to change the clearest (focal) point to your near task. With time and age (i.e. ~45 years), the flexible/elastic lens in our eyes that creates the accommodation becomes more stiff and less able to change its shape. With this poor flex, the eye's point of focus remains further off. You can not strengthen or train the system to improve because eye muscles do not push the lens to shape it... the lens has to be innately flexible for the system to work. dr.j Studioeyecare.com
