Andrew Huberman· PhD
Kids that spend the vast amount of their time looking at things up close, and particularly children who do that indoors for most of their waking time, well, those kids develop myopia.
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Kids that spend the vast amount of their time looking at things up close, and particularly children who do that indoors for most of their waking time, well, those kids develop myopia.
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kids that don't get outside are much more likely to be myopic and it actually ised near yes uh uh when they grow up
so the worst thing you could do is stay inside in a dimly lit room and perform near tasks that raises your risk of nearsightedness 16-fold compared to kids who go outside
so you cut your risk in half by going outside now we think that without any instruction to go and look at things far away but just by the very fact that if you're outside there's so much more to see and you're going to be looking further out right
and it and this has been further studied in terms of is it just being outside or is it the light yeah it's actually both but the light is really the most important driver of protection from nearsightedness