Questions & Answers. You have questions. And Jake has answers, especially if they haven’t been covered in one of the other sections of the blog / free guides.
Many of the topics here originate from your e-mails, or from Quora, or threads in our Facebook group, or even YouTube comments on occasion. Natural myopia control is a wide ranging and complex subject, and this might be the section to find answers to some of your questions. Browse and discover!
Myopia Madness: Are Your Glasses (Way) Too Strong?
Are your glasses way too strong? How can you tell? And if they are, is that a (huge) problem? These are questions most people don't ask. And yet this is exactly where mainstream optometry myopia treatment and optometry science tell completely different stories. Your average optometrist is taught to give you as much minus as possible (for the best possible symptom treatment, letting you see as clearly as possible). And yet the science shows that too much minus increases the [...]
Let’s Stop Calling Glasses “Prescriptions”
The title, pretty much says it all. You probably already know that glasses were invented sometime in the 16th century (some say, much earlier). They were not invented by doctors, not by medical science, not by optometry or ophthalmology. It's an important point, that medical professionals today would probably rather not have you contemplate a whole lot. Glasses were appropriated, many centuries later, by the lens manufacturing industry and by modern optometry as the "medical treatment" you're familiar with today. [...]
Behind The Scenes Update: Un-Daily-Ing The Blog
You might have noticed that the 'daily blog' link recently changed to 'free guides'. Foreboding, kittehs! My goal with the daily blog routine had been to get myself to spend a lot more time bringing you quality content. It's easy to skip days or weeks without a habit and routine to enforce productivity. Success is almost always about creating simple daily habits, to get you where you want to be. That all looks to have come together fairly well, [...]
Dmitriy’s Progress Update: -2.5 Now Down To -0.75 (at 20/15)
Low myopia progress, always a tricky beast. We talk about it quite a bit, in articles here, here, here, and here and even here. If you dig in the free guides, you'll find lots of help to get you sorted on improving low myopia. Like Dmitriy: You'll never fail at this, if you keep at it. Here's the FB thread. Stick with it. Much easier if you started with higher myopia and have that reference point and confidence, but equally [...]
Those Tough Days
Written By Despina Contributing Optometrist No, I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth. I'm still here, focusing away, at all times of day, wherever I happen to be, looking like a total wierdo to anyone who may notice. And it's a good job I am still here. Someone has to keep Jake in check. As you may have noticed, he is ranting quite a lot these days, his rants directed at non other than the poor old optometrists [...]
Where Is The Best Place To Buy Glasses Online?
If you're improving your eyesight, you already figured out that most optic shops overcharge massively for glasses. 500% or higher markups on lenses, perfectly normal. Gouge-town, city limits. Not entirely surprising if you already realized what a scheme the whole basis of modern optometry and myopia treatment is. So why go put more money in the pockets of those who caused your progressive myopia in the first place? Unless you find a supportive optometrist, who will help you with your [...]