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!
Did They Mean To Do That?
Jakey is a bit burned out today, on the whole myopia topic. So this is going to be a rather short and insubstantial entry for the daily blog.Here's just one thing I wonder about, inconsequential as it is. Yesterday I posted a somewhat less than flattering ophthalmology comment on Twitter. This one:And later I see this:Is that veird? I'd venture a guess that their social media manager is in dire need of being assigned a new job. Or of course, this [...]
Cut Lens Prescription In HALF! (-6.75 Diopters To -3.00 Diopters in 5 Months)
Almost every day that I go through my e-mail, there's a story like this one.Somebody takes all the content on this site, digs through the science, does the free e-mail course, and gets to work on reducing their own lens prescription dependence. For most people who are determined and reasonably intelligent, it does turn out something like this:Do take this particular vision improvement story with a few grains of salt, because:Centimer, while an accurate measurement, is easy to look at optimistically. Your interpretation [...]
Was The Bates Method Right All Along?
Bates Method time! Palming, gazing, eye rolling times, just ahead. This site has hosted various fun posts on the subject of Bates Method in the past (like the Bates Method time machine and a slightly more level headed Bates Method explainer). It's worth bringing Bates up every so often, since on a daily basis thousands and thousands of people go online, Google vision improvement related keywords, and find Bates. Bates is the low hanging fruit for bro-science types (or rather, for superfood [...]
It Was Just One Glass
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristSo it's graffiti now, really? Will he stop at nothing?? I'm just glad that wasn't my shop..Anyway, enough about Jake. The point of today's post is alcohol, and that one glass of wine. It really was just one. In spite of carnival week out here, I really have been very good, with Jake's session on alcohol and myopia (you know the one) ringing in my ears every time I even think about enjoying a glass of the [...]
Has It Gone Too Far?
Bad Jake!Much like a graffiti artist defacing corporate art, you will find @endmyopia's brush on more and more outlets where people might go to get real answers on eyesight health (title image, obviously photoshop). Whenever you sell a bad bill of goods to a large enough group of people, sooner or later somebody is going to ask questions. I can't tell you why exactly, but it makes me personally happy to be this particular graffiti artist. Maybe it's the anti-corporate [...]
Lacking Eye Health Literacy About Retinal Detachment
We talk quite a bit about retinal detachment here, on the blog (here, here, here, here, here and quite a few other posts). It's one of those conditions that you might be able to avoid by practicing good eye health habits. It's also one of those scenarios you can't put off "for a few days", if you ever experience symptoms. You do seriously risk going blind, irreversibly, if you do.Last month a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology highlighted the notable [...]