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!
Don’t Lose Your Cornea! The How (& Why) Of Thinner Contact Lenses
Two important eye health topics today. I) Contact Lenses May Damage Corneal Tissue This is a serious side effect of extended contact lens wear, and science is well aware. And yet it's probably not something your dispensing doctor ever told you. You can do several things to protect your eyesight, even if you wear contact lenses. We'll look at that, as part of: II) Shannon Got Thinner Contact Lenses (and you can too) You notice that I often advocate against extended contact [...]
+2.00: Child Myopia Prevention Glasses
You know the rules. No prescription advice here. ;-) Here's a question I forgot to answer yesterday, from the forum: I’ve also bought her a pair of +1.25 lenses for computer work, and also for reading when she starts to do it a little more. Is that a good prescription strength for prevention in a kindergartener? I've seen parents go quite a bit higher on the plus lens, as much as +2 or +2.50 for children who have absolutely no [...]
Nate & 175 cm: Successfully Reversed Child’s Myopia
If you set foot into any optic shop, the optometrist will sell you glasses for your children. They say, it's inevitable anyway. Eyes you know, pesky things. Never work right. But what if you could keep your child's eyes healthy? Or more fascinatingly, what if you could completely reverse your child's myopia, in as little as a year or even less? Today, Nate posts in the forum: I have a daughter who just started kindergarten this week. She’ll be learning how to [...]
Let’s Have A Little Fun Sometimes
** Slightly off-topic Sunday-Wednesday. ** All right, kittehs. Check this out: Some part of the Google Website traffic statistics thingie for the #endmyopia site. That's a lot of people. Mostly silent, shadow-like, graphs and charts people. More importantly though, this: I'm spending an unexpected amount of time, getting you the things. There are the blog posts, not that big of a deal. A few forum questions. But behind the scenes there is also a metric crap-pile of e-mail. Legitimate support [...]
Differential Glasses™: The Link List
differential glasses Update Note: Since the original post many years ago, we stopped using the term 'prescriptions' for the most part. Glasses are clear curved pieces of plastic and can generally be bought in lots of outlets without the need for medical device type of approvals. 'Subscriptions' may be a more accurate term for the lens selling industry practices. The reduced correction you use exclusively for close-up, instead of the distance diopters sold by the optometrist. Mainstream optometry's single [...]
Zee Vorld Tour
Jaaa. So, the plan for 2016. More video, in more places, with more of our darling vision improving students. My wee brain is thinking that by then I'll have halfway passable video skills. And by then you'll be plenty tired of just seeing my weird face on camera. Just in time to cure your then-ennui, we'll have new locales, new perspectives, and new stories. For the record here, I'm terrible at planning. Mostly I go wherever there are cookies or Italian food, [...]