‘Ello Darling.

Back with another vision improvement update.  Kind of amazing we still do these, ten years on.

For reference and as I often like to point out, there are several of these in the inbox, every single day of every week of every single year.  It’s not a thing most any retail optometrist can boast of.  Obviously since their business is giving you insta-clear vision today, and having you come back later for stronger glasses.

They’re in the business of instant gratification that you’ll pay for later.  We’re in the opposite business.  Much like going to the gym you put in the work now, and enjoy the fruits of your labor later.

Not too much later:

We live in truly strange times.

After a long period of being confined to a few outlets of “mainstream media”, we suddenly live in a world of an explosion of truth.  Would you have been able to easily find the real reasons the US started most of the wars they did?  How many sovereign governments those CIA psychos have overthrown?  The millions of people that died all over the world, for the objective of a few shadowy government organizations?  Sure yes the information has existed.  But mostly if you were really deep into a topic, or into fringe new sources.

Your truly is having an enormously fun time, revisiting previous understanding of history in this new light of the Internet.  Things that are so out in the open now, from Julian Assange to Joe Rogan’s podcast, RFK discussing vaccines and wikilieaks just … existing out there for everyone.

Along with that you’re finding out that the ‘food pyramic’ was a total scam, and that so much of retail medicine is about symptom treatment after the fact, rather than actual health and prevention.

Even ‘conspiracy theories’ I outright used to mock, like weather modification.  Yikes.

I’ll still draw the line somewhere.  Like hollow moon and lizard people, not doing that.  Granted at this point nothing will surprise me but then I value the idea of shared reality more than wanting to dig into any more conspiratorial ideas.  I’d rather have some semblance of genuine emotion left when talking to people.  It is getting so much harder though especially since c*vid and whoever still likes their boosters and wears their masks while standing outside on the beach.

I do get it.  You don’t want to fall off the deep end.  Neither do I.  If we can’t believe what we thought was real, then we’re very susceptible to further manipulation by crazy talk.  Our brain needs a solid, stable baseline of truth.  That’s sometimes more important than objective truth, certainly how we deal with ideas going counter to our beliefs.

As it is with all of this, it is too with eyesight.  Though it seems people are way more open minded to the fact that retail optometry is no different than the insulin business or fast food or most of the pill-based treatment paradigm in modern psychiatry.

We are figuring out that much of the disease model is more about profit than finding truth and health.

We are having to find the balance between that truth and the endless crazy talk that co-exists with this online, with all sorts of ridiculous and very likely counterproductive ‘alternative health’ stuff on the Internet.  I’m particularly un-fond of a lot of the magical cancer cures, and the countless communities into various ‘high dose’ of x-compound to cure you-name-its.  Truly some of that goes from just nonsensical to actually dangerous.

Because of all of this in your favorite Jakey’s head, we keep posting improvement reports.  I figure, given enough time and enough data points, you have whatever you need to make up your own mind.

I’d suggest that much of endmyopia is rather safe, quite conservative, and front loaded with a lot of learning about biology and optics, and tools to safely self experiment.  We start out with causality, how to research peer reviewed studies, and how self measure, long before suggesting any changes.

It’s a good project, if and when your life has time for it.  And if it does, please do e-mail me with updates.

Cheers,

-Jake