How Genetics Affect Your Vision

But there's obviously a genetic component to this because it does get passed down.

But think about it.

We say your genetics are 10% of your life, and the other 90% is what you do about it. So.

Right, but.

So genetics plays a role in a.

Few areas, but not in a reading ability area. In my opinion. Genetics is strabismus.

Or amblyopia, which is.

Strabismus is the medical term for an eye turn. Amblyopia is a medical term for.

Lazy eye.

There absolutely is a genetic component to those, but.

Something like nearsightedness.

Or myopia.

It's genetics and it's environment. We can't control who the parents are.

But environment plays massively more of a role with vision.

Especially with kids today.

Because kids are being exposed to screens.

At earlier and earlier ages. They're being asked to read earlier than ever before.

And when the system is presented with.

Stress and it.

Doesn'T have the foundation in place to meet those demands, we adapt or we avoid.

So. So avoidance of reading.

We know what that looks like. And then maladaptations.

Or bad habits, those.

Then become more and more embedded with time because the demands visually in school and in life increase every single year.

But if the root.

Challenge is still.

There, it just becomes.

More your normal.