Science. The garlic to most online vision improvement vampires (of your wallet and sanity). You won’t find many links to Google Scholar and clinical studies and optometry journal articles on most vision improvement sites. Why?
We wont dare to speculate (or speak ill of the unicorn farmers). But here you will find discussion about vision biology, about discoveries in optometry science, and many studies and articles relevant to understanding myopia and your eyesight.
Steroids To Boost Dynamic Visual Acuity
So my friend wants to come visit at the hospital, see the small monkey. She's taking the skytrain which stops at a station conveniently just a few kilometers from the hospital. I tell here I'll pick her up on the bike, help us dodge rush hour traffic. Since I haven't slept properly in days and spent all my remaining time indoors and reading books, my eyesight isn't amazing today. It's also after dark and rainy, altogether not making for ideal [...]
Optometry Science Admits They Did It
I neglected yesterday's post duties. Let's make up for it today, with some <3 science. --- As always, I show you studies published in the very journals meant for optometrists and ophthalmologists. The irony in all of this should be self evident. First up today, the Journal of the College of Optometrists. What you should take note of as you read these things, that these are journals as far removed from pseudo science or anti optometry rhetoric as you can get. [...]
Retinopathy, The Quiet Epidemic: 126 Million People Could Go Blind Because of SUGAR
"At the earliest stage, micro aneurysms occur in the eye. They are small areas of balloon-like swelling in the retina’s tiny blood vessels." - NEI (The National Eye Institute) Diabetic retinopathy. Or, how your eating habits can take you straight into one of the leading causes of adult blindness. As you read this article, consider the fact that it's not entirely relevant whether or not you are diabetic. Retinopathy can be a significant risk of your future vision health. Interestingly enough, you can conceivably avoid this increasingly common [...]
Don’t Lose Your Cornea! The How (& Why) Of Thinner Contact Lenses
Two important eye health topics today. I) Contact Lenses May Damage Corneal Tissue This is a serious side effect of extended contact lens wear, and science is well aware. And yet it's probably not something your dispensing doctor ever told you. You can do several things to protect your eyesight, even if you wear contact lenses. We'll look at that, as part of: II) Shannon Got Thinner Contact Lenses (and you can too) You notice that I often advocate against extended contact [...]
The 1960’s Harvard Pirate Kitten Experiment: A Closed Eye Goes Blind
All right so that title is a little clickbait-ey. But let's look at this not-Schroedinger's cat experiment. It's meant to figure out how our brains might develop, relative to our eyesight. It's brilliant and fascinating, and goes counter to whatever current profit-minded eyesight medicine will tell you. Ready for a fascinating pirate cat story?Back in the 1960's this guy Torsten Wiesel from the Harvard Medical School's department of neurobiology ran an experiment on kittens.He wanted to more clearly understand the early [...]
No More Surgery? A New Eye Drop Dissolves Cataracts
Researchers in the US have developed a new drug that can be delivered directly into the eye via an eye dropper to shrink down and dissolve cataracts - the leading cause of blindness in humans. While the effects have yet to be tested on humans, the team from the University of California, San Diego hopes to replicate the findings in clinical trials and offer an alternative to the only treatment that’s currently available to cataract patients - painful and often prohibitively [...]