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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!
So Is Myopia Genetic After All?
More child myopia book excerpts: "There are a variety of causes for the symptom commonly referred to as myopia. The symptom is also a bit more nuanced than the average optometrist visit will show you. Most optometrist visits, as we covered earlier, are just designed to sell you a prescription lens. There isn’t further discussion or exploration as to nuances of the symptom, or causes. One question we need to get out of the way is whether myopia is genetic. [...]
Child Myopia: The Diagnosis
Book progress update. For long time readers, no brand new insights here.The task at hand is to take all the key insights and get them into a readable book format. Parents who care about their child's eyesight, busy a they are, will want things succinctly and clearly explained.It'd be an easier task if I was a writer. ;-)But here we are. More excerpts from the upcoming child myopia book:The DiagnosisThe first thing you have to understand is how the optometrist visit [...]
What Can We Call The Child Myopia Book?
A little inside joke, the title.I really do want to make it the cover of the upcoming tell-all I'm writing for you, on child myopia. "Jake, you are too strange for mass consumption. You are going to have to tone it down for the general public." What do you think?Meanwhile the book is still in progress, I'm always looking for scraps of time to write. Take a look at the introduction, perhaps motivate you to share your thoughts and ideas about [...]
What I Learned About Sugar And My Eyesight
There is something fascinating that you learn when you stop allowing optometrists to overprescribe your glasses.You start to realize how much your eyesight varies.If you don't get enough sleep, if you are stressed, if your ambient lighting is of low quality ... you can tell that your eyes struggle.Now this isn't the case if your eyes are in great shape.But when you are trying to recover your vision, the lowered prescriptions, the blur horizon, the active focus, they all help [...]
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 [...]