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!
Optometrist Forced To Admit: She’s Legal To Drive!
This is a bit of a crazy story, that Stefanie is telling. Strap in, because she went from, what, 20/70 to 20/40 in a month? Legal to drive with a 1.5 diopter lowered prescription? Is that even possible? What is going on over here, in wizard land? Check this out: The title here was a bit clickbait-ey, I admit it. The optometrist is obviously pretty cool. Look at those numbers, though! February, we're starting with a -8.5 diopters. March, we're down [...]
A Word About Normalized
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristI'm having a great time with my normalized this week, now that the Godzilla of a headache has gone. I'm finding it really comfortable and at most times of the day I can see very well. I'm lucky enough to live somewhere that has 360 days of bright sunlight. As you have probably noticed by now, this makes a tremendous difference, especially when compared to vision in the basement room of a gym. Fluorescent lights all round, [...]
Squinting Child: What Does It Say About Eyesight? (also, 20/50 to 20/25!)
I was told recently that things around here started looking quite professional. Cat meme, to fix that entire misconception. If you're a regular reader here, you know that it's a good idea not to be squinting at things. You can blink, especially if you understand active focus, and get a much better result than squinting. You'll also avoid all sorts of squinty-wrinkles in the long run! ;) Why the squint topic today? It's a quick aside along with [...]
Expensive Glasses? The SHOCKING Scale Of The Lens Ripoff
You probably already know all about lens-induced myopia, and how basically all of clinical science knows that minus lenses are the single largest contributing cause to progressive myopia (in a large majority of cases).You know that the old-timey lens prescription dogma causes progressive myopia, because Google Scholar (and because thank you science).You also probably already know the huge, massive, mind boggling profit that creating this condition is netting the lens-manufacturing industry (and optometry at large). When we're talking about actually creating a vision [...]
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 [...]