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!
Will: From -5.25 to -3.50 In One Month
Will posts his rather impressive first month progress report in the forum:I’m in month 2, measuring cm’s for the normalized prescription.Here’s what’s happened so far:Starting point: (contacts)R: -5.0L: -5.25Starting cm’s:R: 20L: 18.5Day 1, after understanding strain, I immediately put +2.5 readers over my contacts, and within a few days I could see 20/20 with +1 readers for distance.I ordered different strenght contacts starting at -4/-4.25 and moved all activities possible outdoors. Computer use is max 3 hrs/day at work. Frequent [...]
Audio & Video Sessions
As promised, audio and video sessions are starting to be available for the myopia rehab program.Anytime you see a headphone icon or a film reel icon, the session includes audio and / or video.Introduction: With video and audio options.I expect to have most sessions updated and covered in 2-3 months.If you are just starting out, this should be a perfect pace for your progress. You might do about three of the 20 minute sessions a week, which will be about [...]
Behind The Scenes: Jake On Video
Yikes! It's video time!Background: the goal is to bring audio guides and video to the sessions in my full myopia rehab program. Participants who prefer to watch or listen over reading, will soon have those options available for them.I've been a bit reticent about this whole project.There are only so many hours in the day. Lots of new skills to learn.My concern about the quality of the production.I'm self conscious about me on video, audio, and pictures.It's probably because my mother [...]
Behind The Scenes: The Front Row
I've been on a research-and-shopping spree lately.There's a new fancy DSLR camera which the Internet promises is great for .. video. Yes, the day of reckoning may be upon us, soon.There are a pile of cinema lighting things, microphones and dedicated voice recorders, tripods and high speed SD cards scattered all around my office. And software. There's lots of software and instructional videos running, most of which just serve to make me feel clueless and insignificant.Software for audio and video production. [...]
Antireflective Lens Coatings: Waste Of Money or Must-Have for Happy Eyes?
If you look through the back catalog of articles, you'll find a fair bit has been written about lenses. And from me in particular, how to save money on lenses.You end up buying a lot of lenses, as you're heading back down the ladder of prescriptions.When you do, you ideally don't want to spend too much money on them.It's a difficult balance, though. High myopia in particular is already really challenging for your brain to deal with (the image is [...]
Artificially Enhanced Flavors
This article is straight from Salon. (not my reading source of choice in general.. don't judge)“We look like our livestock now”: The author of “The Dorito Effect” on the chemically-enhanced junk food we can’t put down Salon talks to author Mark Schatzker about why the worse our food tastes, the more we eatWhen Doritos first hit store shelves in 1964, they weren’t Cool Ranch Doritos or Jumpin’ Jack Monterey Cheese Doritos or Jacked Ranch Dipped Hot Wings Doritos. (That last one [...]