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!
Scientists, 75% Astigmatism Reductions, & Pinhole YOLOs
A quick cross section of various questions and comments, today: It would be so silly easy, all of this myopia discussion, if we were all scientists. So, so, so dreamily easy. Trouble is, a lot of the PDFs and things I link in the science section, are all full of partially unnecessary academic lingo. So unless you're used to weeding through it, you might be inclined to skip the science due to complete boredom. That's very common and very unfortunate, [...]
Connected? Sugar, Sleep & Bad Eyesight
Glasses stop a key feedback loop from working properly. You're supposed to get "warnings" when you abuse your body. But with lens prescriptions, you might not be. At some point in the future, generations from now, the medical community is going to shake their collective heads at the folly of how we deal with myopia today. We have no idea what we're doing, prescribing lenses to billions of people. Billions. Meanwhile myopia spirals out of control worldwide, and nobody has [...]
Novartis Sabotages Reasonable Eye Treatment
Health for profit. Doctors and symptom treatment. Big pharma owning the narrative. I bring up stories substantiating this, often. Why? Because your darling frou-frou hippie eye guru knows about the power of doctrine. Both of my parents are medical doctors. It's like a pill-firing brigade of pharma sales yes-man, back in the childhood home of Jakey. You can't talk to them about it, either. My dad in particular, smart guy. Mensa. Private practice & ran major clinics. Published. Patients [...]
I Bought A Macbook Air In The Himalayas
Warning: This is just musings, not really worth reading for eyesight health advice. You might just go tl;dr, WTH, Jake. The long and short of this whole post, don't let technology enable bad habits. --- As you probably know by now, I have a tendency to vagabond around the world. It's not so much travel that I do, than actual vagabonding. I'm usually too lazy to travel, as in having a return trip ticket and some kind of a plan [...]
Lens Induced Myopia (Investigative Ophthalmology)
Let's go all straight science today. No fluff, no saucer eyes. Title of today's science exhibit: Imposed Peripheral Myopic Defocus Can Prevent the Development of Lens–Induced Myopia Brought to us courtesy of IOVS, the Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science Journal. Wait, wait. Don't click out, don't fall into a narcoleptic slumber. I'll give you a bit of easy to understand background, to make sense (and even enjoy) this one. It's worth it, I promise! Ready? Here we go: The core [...]
Dangerous: Cosmetic Contact Lenses
Today, a little topic on ways to screw up perfectly good eyes. Or, "look what the kids are into". Good times ahead! Odds are that if you're over 30 and living in a Western country, you haven't even heard much about cosmetic contact lenses. You're thinking right now, what, Jake. Nobody I know wears cosmetic contacts. But if you are a 20 year old girl in a major city somewhere in Asia (though odds are 99% you aren't), you very [...]