Troubling Facts: Commercial Interests Driving Medical Science
This is a bit of a departure from our usual discussion about vision health - but nonetheless relevant and important for you to consider. It's a different sort of myopia, in a figurative sense. Dr. John Abramson of the Harvard Medical School says the following in an interview with Managed Care: ABRAMSON: For 20 years, I practiced family medicine about 45 minutes north of Boston. I read my journals each week and believed that by applying the latest medical information contained in those journals, I was [...]
Sara: A Reduced Prescription Could Make Your Day
Sara writes in the forum:My new normalized glasses arrived! I wanted to see what a 0.5 diopter drop would be like, so I ordered them with OS -4 and OD -4.25.I put them on this evening when I came home, and I loved how I saw. For the most part everything is clear, so my brain registers it as “normal”, and the world looks bigger, which is great. I get a light blur starting at 8 to 10 feet (this is at night time – [...]
Logs vs. No Logs & Snellen vs. Natural Impression
I advocate the use of a log for your eyesight improvement project. This practice helps makes the progress more tangible, and eliminate subjective concerns. It also helps me provide you with some direction, when you feel stuck. Maybe this is a bit of a stereotype of my culture, the methodical approach to everything, but it certainly is effective. Here is a great example of a log, that I recently received for review: And while in most cases, after the initial few weeks you only need [...]
Alex’ Secrets: My Favorite Kind Of Glasses Frames
This is not a serious topic, rather just some shopping fun for you to consider - maybe while pushing a bit of focus, while browsing. I get asked the question frequently, and sometimes it makes me wish I was in the vision retail business. The profit margins on frames are incredible (or terrible, if you are the consumer), and all the options are staggering. The single most budget friendly way is probably to buy glasses online. But over the long term, this may or may [...]
Reader Questions: Plus Lens Therapy
Kevin writes: Hi Dr #endmyopia, your website emphasizes active focus/focus pulling (preferably outside). and also working at the blur horizon with a differential prescription. But i am surprised that you did not focus specifically on print pushing with plus lenses . Do you think that active print pushing (with blinking, eye movements to try to clear the image) for few hours a day would yield, say a +0.5D/year? That is a great question. Myopia rehabilitation is still a tiny speck of a subject on the [...]
Reader Questions: 20/20, Then What’s Next?
Shawn sends an e-mail, asking: So what happens when I get through 12-16 months of your program. I get to 20/20, then what's next? Like does my vision stay there? Does it need maintenance? I'm 22, would vision go back to -2.5 sometime later in my life? How sustainable would my 20/20 vision at the end of this process be? And is 20/20 what I see now through my glasses? This reminds me of the missing FAQ on the site, one of the myriad things [...]
