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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 Wizard King of Hong Kong: Steve H. Leung, Optometrist
First. There can only be one Jake Steiner. Obviously. Though in a parallel universe possibly bereft of the Jake, if one might imagine such sadness ... there would be only one Steve Leung. Steve is a handsome devil, and an optometrist in Hong Kong (much in the way Michael Jordan is "a basketball player"). Steve has been practicing there for over 16 years, looking at causes rather than just giving out prescriptions like candy. And he's run afoul of the local powers [...]
Reboot
I've been working up to this ever since I mentally accepted this adoptive Web-child.Working up to ... the reboot.It's eating into the book writing time quite a bit, but it has to get done. What am I referring to?The course. Alex' course.We worked on it together quite a bit, years ago. And it went online and through a few months of tweaks. And then .... and then nothing.It's been working really well for a lot of participants obviously, and Alex [...]
Shannon’s Progress: After 5 Weeks Reduced To -6.00
Shannon posts her latest update in the forum:After 5 weeks at -6.5, I was feeling everything was quite clear. I went to my dad’s farm, and looked around and the leaves in the trees looked clearer than I had seen in the last couple of years with my full prescription. Everything is looking more beautiful than ever before. This weekend, on my 5 week mark of my first prescription decrease, I have switched to a -6.0. I am feeling a lot [...]
William’s Progress: -5.00 to -3.50
William posts his progress in the forum:Starting point:Glasses: (never wore)Right: -5.00/-0.25/30Left: -5.75/-0.5/177Contacts:Right -5.00Left -5.25I started by wearing a +2.5 reader over my contacts, and very rapidly I was able to drop my contact scrip.Today:Contacts:Right: -3.50Left: -4.0020/20 each eye inside, 20/15 or better both eyes open.I’m wearing a +1.25 reader over those for any close work.Couple of observations/questions:1. Left eye only double vision on Snellen: with both eyes open, things work great, but when I cover my right eye, the left [...]
Your Eyes Are Direct Access To Your Brain: Blue Light Reverses Amnesia
From TheVerge:Mice with amnesia could recall specific training after having their memories jogged by blue lights — the first time researchers have been able to suppress a memory and then restore it in an animal. And while that technical feat is impressive, what's more important is what the study in Science suggests: in some cases, memories that are lost due to brain trauma may still be present in the human brain.Amnesia comes in many forms. In some cases, people have trouble forming memories after [...]
Seeing Better With Contact Lenses vs. Glasses
There is a whole discussion going on here, about why you might see better with contact lenses than you do with glasses. Short answer, if you have high myopia, and don't have any problems with dry eyes, contact lenses might be for you. The rest of this is for those of you who are already in the whole program and familiar with normalized glasses and differential glasses prescriptions. Let's address the contact lens vs. glasses vision question for close-up. Here's [...]