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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!
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 [...]
Visionworks Optometrist Calls Us A Hoax
If you found this site by searching for help with your eyesight, you're in good company. Most everybody who visits here did it the same way. Welcome, to you. ;)It's less word of mouth, because most people don't really care about health issues that can be remedied with a quick and easy fix (glasses, FTW). It's less advertising, since your darling host of-this-show is a bit phobic of large crowds, and low barriers of entry. It's less referral type traffic, [...]
The Bionic Eye
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristAn article in the British optical press caught my eye today. The world's first bionic eye, Argus 2, is waiting for approval by the National Health Service. In other words, the £150,000 price tag will be paid by the government and not the patient.High myopia is one thing. Blindness is quite another. We've all used the expression, ' I'm so blind without my glasses', and we've all played blind-fold games as children. But the reality of actual [...]