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!
Torturing Kids: You Might Not Want To Read This One
People sometimes suggest that I'm too hard on mainstream optometry. Hopefully lately the tone has been a little less definitive on that front. I'm trying to be more inclusive of potentially open minded optometrists! Progress, right? And as I point out, my strong bias comes from being exposed to hundreds and thousands (really!) of stories about individual's experiences with myopia. When you just have your own, perhaps not traumatizing experience, the things I say sometimes may sound harsh. Hey [...]
Giant Eye Q&A Roundup Time!
The forum, I keep saying, is gold. Whenever I feel a moment of inspiration, it's usually answering a very specific question in the forum. I read something, and it reminds me of a previous experience, or something we sorted out with a student in the past. Along with that, great ideas, perspectives, and experiences are written up in the forum by students. If this resource existed back when I was just getting started trying to get off my -5.00, I'd have [...]
Paul’s Progress: -3.25 Reduced To -2.25 (& eliminated astigmatism)
Today was supposed to be about optometry, hypocrisy, and pseudoscience. Very fun and interesting stuff. Understanding pseudoscience as a premise will help understand where retail optometry strayed from the path of actual science. You might say, Jake, it's obvious. Mainstream optometry is a bunch of lens sales shops, making money. And you would of course be correct. But we get optometrists coming here, shouting, "show us the science"! Are they actually interested in science, though? Are they basing their current treatment and [...]
Ignorance is Bliss
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristI've always said this, that ignorance is bliss, and the older and wiser I get, the more I believe it to be true.Since my monumental first reduction in myopia, I have excitedly been telling anyone who cares to listen, in the form of friends, relatives and acquaintances. Their reactions have helped me group these people (and people in general) into 3 main groups:Super-interested - These people show a genuine interest, ask for details and are keen to try [...]
Time For Science: Logging Tool About To Go Live!
Logging tool. The latest in a decade long journey of coming to understand the grand mystery that is myopia. Let's start this post with a quick recap of my own myopia story, up to right now, today:Jake Gets MyopiaFirst myopia diagnosis, early teens. Shocked, hate the idea of glasses. Get the first pair though, and the sudden super sharpness is addictive. Glasses increase throughout teens and more slowly in the 20's. Secretly enjoying the optometrist visits, the new glasses are always like [...]
You Want A Quick Hack, Or Years Of Tweaks & Testing?
Marie-Claire writes in the forum:UpdateClose up:I reordered the differentials with AR this time, what a difference! No more glare fatigue. I take walk-around breaks every hour, and look away from the computer screen whenever I can. Get up and stretch, look as far as possible over the other cubicles to engage distance vision. Use the half-hour lunch to walk outside. The close-up saga continues. By afternoon, the edge of blur seems to be a source of strain rather than a challenge, and [...]