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Sea salt, externally applied -- the best thing I've found so far
could be magnesium, etc in the salt? trying now with some celtic grey salt. quite refreshing at least. burns.
I havent watched this yet - huberman on salt, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azb3Ih68awQ&list=PLPNW_gerXa4Pc8S2qoUQc5e8Ir97RLuVW&index=6
thanks daniels this helped me
I doubt the salt is doing anything other than holding the water on your skin longer, leading to an extended evaporative effect, which cools the skin longer. Thats probably where your relief is coming from.
ameliaaria Wonderful, very happy to hear this!
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ensete Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts. I realize the mechanism of the sea salt is as yet unclear, but I am sure it is quite different from simply holding water on the skin leading to cooler skin. My screen-use symptoms are very strong and debilitating, and the effect of the sea salt is remarkable, to the extent that when I have it on my forehead, I get absolutely no symptoms at all, for hours at a time. I can't imagine that keeping my forehead continually wet, with water alone, or that simply having cooler skin on my forehead, would have such an effect. But thanks again for sharing your thoughts and contributing to the discussion and exploration of the "sea salt phenomenon" -- all ideas and sharing-of-experiences are of course very much welcome!
I'm sorry, but this is yet again one of those "solutions" that lower our chances to achieve any real solution.
Imagine a doctor or scientist investigating this topic and reading that people smack gobs of sea salt to their forehead, which helps them tolerate screens better.
Yeah, lets all go to a customer meeting and in the middle slap a moist ball of sea salt to the forehead, saying, "this help me tolerate LCD screens"
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Maxx Thanks for your input. Yes, this is the obstacle: the strangeness of the method, both in its appearance and in its unclear mechanism of action. This is why I expect some people will probably read my original post and won't bother trying it because it seems so odd.
What I would suggest would be to simply: give it a try. See if it helps you, and report back.
If this helps others anywhere close to as much as it has helped (and is helping) me, it would be major. And the only thing to lose would be the couple dollars spent on the package of sea salt, and a bit of salt on the floor.
As for the doctors and scientists, they certainly haven't helped us much yet. Rather than wait for them, I'd prefer to have something that works now. And for me (and for one other poster here so far), this works now.
I see this as one of two sides. One being medical related experiments to attempt to mitigate issues related to eyestrain and related phenomena, the other being empirical "triggers" of this issue (like dithering/FRC, PWM or other physical properties of LCD panels) that still exist and should still be solved.
Speaking from experience, potentially having something attempting to interfere with normal visual processing when eyes are damaged and working around the issue is probably just "buying time" until you become more sensitive, at which point certain workarounds are moot.
It's important we don't conflate the two when attempting to investigate the technical causes of this issue and in communication with other stakeholders (like in communication with OEMs)
JTL Speaking from experience, potentially having something attempting to interfere with normal visual processing when eyes are damaged and working around the issue is probably just "buying time" until you become more sensitive, at which point certain workarounds are moot.
Thanks for the interesting reflections. Just regarding your second paragraph: nothing would be interfering with normal visual processing here: the salt just goes on the forehead. (If the salt went into the eyes, that would interfere with vision!)
It's also possible that the problem is not one of eye damage at all. Or that for some of us it is and for some of us it isn't.
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Seagull Please explore! you could try the cooling patches or different kinds of salt, and observe if it helps.
Thanks, this is definitely worth exploring! The scientific mindset of experimenting systematically would be an excellent one here. As for me, for the moment I've found what works very well, and don't enjoy getting the symptoms, so I'm not too eager at the moment to experiment for the sake of "research" and finding out more. My approach is purely pragmatic right now. But if anyone else is interested in experimenting in this way, it would indeed be fabulous.
got zero effect with mortons sea salt, but good effect with liquid magnesium drops(evaporated seawater)
reaganry got zero effect with mortons sea salt, but good effect with liquid magnesium drops(evaporated seawater)
Thanks for trying and reporting back. I did try for a time with some Korean sea salt that I bought from an Asian grocery store, and the effect was not particularly good. I have been using, and having success with, what are probably higher quality, purer sea salts. Very interesting about the liquid magnesium!