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!
US National Academy Of Sciences: Near Work Causes Myopia
A quick thanks to those who e-mailed in response to yesterday's post. Yes, I was losing my mind just a little bit there. It's a real issue with committing to bring you daily posts here on the blog, I'm bound to have an off day or two. Just know that I'm still doing a bit of finance consulting, then there's the baby thing, and I get a bit overambitious with helping you with your myopia. Too much, sometimes. We'll get [...]
I Don’t Spell Check
Rant post. Best just skip this one. I know. I'm not professional like the rest of the health talk world. That ship long sailed, somewhere around the time I started referring to you, my darling reader, as kittehs, as well as the countless references to my lack of Indian style beards, and probably the countless jabs at mainstream optometry. Although that last one, I'm really having on my list as a thing to stop doing. Today is one of those [...]
Finally: More Checkout Options
A quick housekeeping note: I know you've asked for this to-do item for years, quite literally. More payment options for your membership. If you've been following the blog you probably already know about the various administrative and technical stumbling blocks in the way of making more payment options a reality. Or so I say. A moment of brutal honesty: Neither I nor Alex we super serious about never missing out on potential business or money or payments. The whole not-just-Paypal thing could have probably been [...]
Prescription Tracking: Create Your Forum Signature
Help me help you - create a forum signature with your diopter details. If I can just look at your signature (which shows up under every post you make) to get your current prescription numbers, it saves you having to retype the numbers every time. Handy! It's also great as you look at other's questions to have a frame of reference for their prescriptions. Until we have a more sophisticated system to track your changes, this is also an easy [...]
Michelle: Can I Reduce Prescriptions to -7.00?
Michelle posts an update in the forum: I have been wearing the reduced prescription, -7.5 contacts in both eyes for 3 weeks now. I received my glasses, +1.5, last week and have been using them for computer use. I have noticed that if I can get outside every day my eyes both clear up pretty quickly in 10-15 minutes. Besides a dog, having 4 year old twins helps too :). It takes twice as long indoors in the mornings. Since [...]
Breast Feeding: Why It Matters to Baby Eyesight
This article, just a short intro to some infant eye development concepts. If you'd told me in my 20's that I'd one be talking in a quasi-expert capacity about infant eyesight, I'd have told you that you're crazy. Back then I was mostly just interested in offshore boats and vintage motorcycles, and ways to amusingly shorten my life expectancy. But here we are, a decade or two later. Old man Jake is going to tell you things about infant eyesight. [...]