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!
(Video) Glasses F#@% Up Your Eyes!!
Since I finally got all set up with the camera and lighting and sound and things in a completely separate studio, across town, the video output has been increasing lately.Is that a good thing?If you had decent content Jake, you say. And a slightly more humanoid looking head, perhaps.Topic of the latest musing, the philosophical fact that you're getting away with nothing (for nothing), when it comes to your body and health. Think you can slap on a pair of [...]
Is The Snellen Test Lying About Your Eyesight?
Allan Hytowitz claims to have invented a new way to measure visual acuity. The real question is: Did this guy just leap ahead of every eye chart you've ever seen, with a brilliant new way to measure eyesight and myopia?Or is it all just crazy talk? Stick around, find out. Yesterday I cheated a bit, and covered several topics (and two Youtube videos!) in one post. It's the only way to start clearing some backlog, get ahead of the blog and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]