Jake Steiner Voted Educator & Humanitarian Of The Year
Sunday afternoon today, on this 7-day-a-week project that is @endmyopia. It's catch-up day.Recently I finally figured out why you can find me here, on @endmyopia ,basically every single day. Because if you have a sense for your eye guru by now, you probably know that I'm actually not that interested in fame or money, or reading a zillion e-mails. I had various half baked ideas, but no really clear idea why I was doing it. Why put that much time and effort into a thing [...]
NO WAY: Mislead By Fake Study, 1,000 UK Optometrists Prescribe Contacts To 7 Year Olds
Cooper Vision really, really wants to sell contact lenses to your children.And you really, really shouldn't let your children wear contact lenses. Why? Because permanent corneal tissue damage. Sure you can get away with wearing contact lenses for a while. But if you start off in childhood and plan on a lifetime of wearing contact lenses, you are absolutely going to end up with a rough wake up call before long. Corneal abrasion is basically unavoidable, with prolonged contact lens wear.This means that the part of [...]
Selling Glasses To Children: Should Be Illegal?
Welcome back to the blog, dear kitteh. Pull up a chair, let uncle Jake tell you a story. Uncle Jake recently had a little baby boy (eight months recent, as of this writing). While that was a bit of a semi-unplanned event, it's changed Jakey's perspective on quite a few things. Among them, the thing you really get as a parent, protecting the small and innocent. If you're a parent, you know what I'm talking about. You will straight up murder somebody, if they mess [...]
Living With Blinders: No Peripheral Vision Killing Your Eyes?
We talk about peripheral vision every so often, here in the blog.Here's a quick and possibly startling fact: You don't use your peripheral vision, when you're staring at screens. You use only about 3% of your retinal surface, in fact. Is this something you should worry about?Some clinical science suggests that you may in fact become myopic, because you're not using your peripheral vision. More on that in a moment.Peripheral vision falls into the wider category of vision health, and a large part of your eyesight [...]
Kristina Did It! (18 Year Old High School Student Reverses Myopia)
You want to know what tangible success looks like? How about six months to reduce a full diopter in lens prescriptions? Big deal, you think. You show us these stories all the time, Jake. But this one is Kristina, who is an 18 year old high school student. And before anyone gets their huff-pants on about how age doesn't matter, let me just interrupt that right now. We've actually got a strict minimum age of 25 for BackTo20/20, exactly because younger ones tend to [...]
Is Going Outside The “Cure” For Myopia?
Go outside, don't end up with glasses. Or so some will tell you. Any truth to this?There was quite a bit of media coverage recently, about another circle jerk of a poorly designed study, taken out of reasonable context, turned into the soundbite of "go outside, don't need glasses"."There were some studies suggesting the protective effect of outdoor time in the development of myopia, but most of this evidence is from cross-sectional studies (survey) data that suggest 'association' instead of causality," said lead author Dr. [...]