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!
The Role Of Contrast Adaptation In Myopia Development & Reversal
After a string of recent posts all shanti-shanti and fluffy, let's get back to some hardcore science.Vision science is an amazing field. Truly, retail optometry doesn't do any semblance of justice to the depth and breadth of research being done on the subject of human (and animal) vision. The sheer quantity of data and analysis available to you right now, today, is a testimony to human curiosity and ingenuity.One of the eyeball topics you might find interesting is contrast adaptation.It's [...]
Taking Breaks For Happy Eyes: 20 Min, 45 Min, 3 Hours
We talk a whole lot about taking breaks both in BackTo20/20 and here in the blog.There is no benefit whatsoever in messing with prescription lenses or any other activities, until you have a solid habit of taking breaks. Once you know the 20 minute, 45 minute, 3 hour ways for best breaks, you're well on your way to better habits.Getting those habits is something most people struggle with.The trick to getting a good close-up habit?Rewire your sense of strain awareness.If you're new [...]
Now In the Program: Differential Glasses Prescription How-To Video Guide
The glasses your optometrist sold, correct your vision for far distance. You can see as far as possible, as clearly as possible with those glasses. If you wear that high correction while looking up-close, at your screen or smartphone, or reading a book, you notably increase your risk of more myopia. Long focal plane correction + Close distance = Myopic stimulus. Not ideal. Much can be done to help your eyesight health, by not wearing all that correction while you're focused [...]
Hippie Alert: The True Cost (Documentary)
It's Friday. You, the one person who found this site, stopping by for a quick read.Millions of people, right at this same moment, stepping into an optometry shop. Oh doctor, wise doctor, my vision is blurry. Whatever can I do?Fear not, the millions are told. We have medical prescription glasses. They will fix everything!Measure eyes, pick frame, cut lenses, swipe credit card.Done. Crisis averted. The doctor saves the day.Well done, say the shareholders of the 60 billion dollar a year French lens [...]
Video: Budget Your Close-Up (Part II)
If you enjoyed the recent session excerpt on close-up budgeting in Limit Your Love, you might be up for a quick video edit on the same subject.Head over to the poor, neglected Facebook page for your viewing entertainments:Hope you like it. And ... if you do, don't start clicking any like buttons. Our FB has a neglect-reputation to maintain.Cheers,- Jake
From the Program: Limit Your Love
Following, a quick excerpt of one of the program sessions. It's one discussing close-up time. If you are in my program, it comes after learning about measuring your eyes, after getting a close-up prescription, after active focus. After you learn all sorts of handy tangible things to make a difference. And then, once in a while, we have to get a bit philosophical.This one applies to everyone, regardless of whether you're just a casual reader or serious about your eyeball health. [excerpt follows]Close-Up: The [...]