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!
Kim’s One Year Update: -7.5 Diopters Down to -4 Diopters
I occasionally joke about what sometimes may look like an endless barrage of improvement stories. We could literally turn this blog into just improvement stories and myopia control progress reports, and cover every single day of the year.Who else, licensed or otherwise, can make (and back up) such a claim? You're the star of this show. You take what is certainly a challenging amount of information, from biology to optics to clinical science, you add your own patience and persistence, and turn lots of theory [...]
Insanely Sketchy Stem Cell Treatment Restores Woman’s Eyesight
Perhaps you read this blog and sometimes think, man, this Jake character is definitely a little .... out there. You'd be right. I openly throw rocks at a 100 billion dollar a year industry, which could squash me at any time, like a tiny little bug. I call an entire medical profession old-timey, outdated, following some 16th century pre-medicine dogmatic nonsense that creates a global health epidemic. I'm pushing my luck, partially for effect. It takes a little controversy, a [...]
Despina: Is he Serious?
Written by DespinaContributing OptometristLast week was not great. Until Wednesday I had the most stinking cold, which was cured within minutes by some mysterious cold and flu tablets bought at my local pharmacy. Green, they were. Slightly suspicious looking. I have no idea what was in them, but I was desperate. I felt terrible. And my normalized prescription was waiting for me, in the drawer.The fact is, they worked like magic and I lived to tell the tale. On Friday, I [...]
Went To See Optometrist For New Contact Lenses
There's so much great e-mail coming into @endmyopia everyday, I really wish we could get a lot more of it into the blog. I think of a lot of what I'm reading, like small cracks in the mainstream, old- timey lenses-are-forever narrative of retail optometry. Take a look at this one, for example:More and more people continue to have this kind of experience. Their optometrist gets to measure reducing myopia objectively, and before long there will be enough open minded, forward thinking [...]
Fluorescent Lights Part II – Headaches & Fatigue
Yesterday we talked about fluorescent lights and vision health.It's rather quite difficult sometimes to stick to just myopia when we talk about vision health. Things very quickly branch out into lots of related topics, which I often try to avoid getting into. While I know a whole lot about myopia, I'm no expert on the many related subjects.Sometimes we broach subjects like lattice degeneration and macular degeneration and cataracts and LASIK, and depression. Your eyes are your window to your [...]
Fluorescent Lights Vs. Vision Health
Fluorescent lights. Those things have always given me the creeps.They belong in horror movies and movies about sitting in an office cubicle all day, and in mental institution abandoned hallways. They have that creepy noise too, especially when the ballast is less than new. Everything about fluorescents, just feels like they were invented by the same people who formulate fast food artificial flavors.Why this, today? Because Kellee posted this comment in the forum:I’ve been thinking a lot about feelings [...]