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!
Worried About Anxiety, Depression, Weight Gain? Should You Blame Those Glasses?
Did you know that your glasses could be responsible for anxiety and depression that you aren't even aware of? Maybe it's not that your days are monotonous and unfulfilling. Maybe your boss isn't that much of an a******. Maybe traffic isn't really that annoying.This is going to be delving a bit outside of the usual science minded approach of the site. But I have to tell you these things, get them off my blog-writing chest. Because you really should know [...]
Optometrists Know That Glasses Are Bad – But They Don’t Tell You
I love Neha's writing style. She is always positive, inclusive, forgiving.You know I struggle with this. I struggle, because over the past ten years I talked to hundreds and hundreds of optometrists all over the world. I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about the profession.Some optometrists are great. Behavioral optometrists in particular, hats off. These guys really try to help.But then there is the mainstream. The range there goes from casual ignorance to derisive condescension. "You [...]
Your Myopia: A Gateway To Glaucoma, Cataracts, & Retinal Detachment
Let's have a serious moment today, and look at prescriptions, and their long term consequences. A whole lot of medicines are poisons to varying degrees. They are beneficial to us, since they affect a specific part or organism which we can target at will. Antibiotics kill a range of bacteria in the body. We take them as prescriptions when we are affected by an infection our body is unable to resolve on its own. Of course you wouldn't take the antibiotic [...]
Gunnar Looks Back At His Mistakes Trying To Fix His Eyesight
The Internet is full of questionable wisdom about eyesight. Likewise, the local optometrist ideas vary quite widely on the subject of myopia. It's really a matter of luck, if you find us first, or end up here after a long search and experimenting. Your poor eyes, quite possibly, if you found us after you tried everything else already. I write here because of all the things out there, I really believe that Alex' course is by far the most [...]
How To Improve Your Eyesight: Just 5 Steps
You can improve your eyesight in a matter of weeks, following a few simple steps: Want To Improve Your Eyesight? #1: Never Wear Your Distance Glasses While Reading Your distance glasses are meant to let you see clearly far away. When you use it up-close, you create a lot of eye strain. Since you have gotten your eyes used to this through years and years of increasing prescriptions, you don't even notice. But this habit is the #1 cause of progressive myopia. How [...]
Kim (-7.50): Improved by 1.5 Diopters in 3 Months
Greetings, dear blog readers! While I don't write often these days, do know that I read. And I certainly see when you guys pick on my English accent. Yaaa, I know all. Jake instigates, and you think it's funny. ;-) Meanwhile I continue to receive encouraging e-mails, it is really great to see many of your benefitting from this resource. Here is a message from Kim, in my mailbox last week: Hi Alex, I started off at -6.5 L [...]