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!
What You Should Think About: The Overprescription Check
Steve makes a great comment in the forum:I can definitely relate to the cranking it to 11 tactic. Years ago, I always wondered why my optometrist kept going even after I could see the bottom line (20/15) quite clearly already. Of course, that was before I knew about overprescriptions and before I even knew this site existed. But I ate up the minus lens and followed the herd.Now, I let them bring me to 11, then say “ok, so now, [...]
That Doesn’t Even Feel Right!
Don't get cranked to 11, at the optic shop. Seriously. That's how it all starts to go south, with your eyesight, when the optician plays the "clearer now, or now" game. It's the wrong way to deal with prescriptions.I just made it back from the airport. Bye-bye Singapore!Today's post, I really want to make in video format. But it's 4PM, I'm nowhere near a video friendly place, so maybe this post will have to do instead. Even if words really don't do it justice, [...]
Your Glasses: Does Your Ciliary Muscle Love Them?
In video format today, a quick explainer why your eye's focusing muscle might love (and be better off) with glasses.This is in response to a few recent forum stories where students (before finding @endmyopia) went no-glasses, cold turkey. That's often unwise, not beneficial, and rather quite frustrating, and I want to make you feel much more comfortable about the premise of some lens wear.Caveats, of course, to glasses. I'll explain in the video.Only in video format today since this one [...]
Macular Degeneration: Make That Money, Big Pharma!
From The Motley Fool:Why Opthotech Corporation Shares Skyrocketed by 75% in 2015A potential to change the standard of care in a multibillion-dollar market has sparked investor enthusiasm.SOURCE: NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE.What: A new adjunct therapy under development that could improve outcomes for people suffering from a form of age-related vision loss caused shares in Ophthotech Corporation (NASDAQ:OPHT) to soar higher by 75% in 2015, according to Capital IQ.So what: An increasingly larger and longer-living population means more people are being diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration, and that's [...]
Don’t Care Till It’s Gone
We don't care about health, in a preventative sense.Some people care. But most of us, instant gratification and handy excuses, over making good choices. I'm that way, nothing to judge about it. Except that it seems a site like this should be making a big selling point for how much better life could be, with just some small habit changes. Great natural eyesight, no worrying about floaters and retinal detachment, and forever optometrist bills, and not seeing anything at the [...]
Astigmatism Double Vision Images: Video Edit
In the middle of lots of local meetups here in Singapore. Learning some interesting things, including lofty requests like local meetup groups for readers to be able to connect and get together. Want local meetup groups? Let me know.Brought the camera along, for possible videos of individual talks. So far that's not exactly been very productive. At least though there's a quick bit for you on the astigmatism topic. You'll notice that we're quitting a bit with the editing of [...]
