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 Global Myopia Epidemic: A 100 Billion Dollar Profit Motive
Lucy recently published an excellent article on the explosion of statin use. The problem is endemic of many areas of Western medicine where chronic rather than acute symptoms are to be dealt with. Acute symptoms are increasingly effectively resolved, while chronic ailments are simply medicated with very questionable long term results.One such area, widely ignored when it comes to massive health epidemics of recent times, is myopia. Many people don't even know the term, which simply refers to shortsightedness of the [...]
Intermittent Fasting: A Tool To Fix Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) and Improve Eyesight?
Here, a quick visit into my journey of breaking through vision improvement plateaus. If you get stuck and aren't getting the improvements you are looking for lately, this is the article for you.---If you spent most of your life behind glasses and contact lenses, discovering the vision improvement methods on this site can be a revelation. You end up learning a lot, and rediscovering healthy eyesight in the process.In fact, myopia rehab can be quite pleasant with the right guide.This short [...]
Johnny: Working Out Double Vision & Astigmatism Reduction
Johnny writes in the forum, volunteering time to update us about his challenges with double vision, too much prescription reduction, and his astigmatism correction. If you have astigmatism, or double vision experiences, this is well worth the read: Hi everyone Time for an update! There’s been a lot going on so this might be a long post… Its been an interesting (and tough!) couple of months. I have again learnt a lot and I hope in sharing my experiences with [...]
Trouble Finding Active Focus? It Could Be Your Screen.
Hi everybody, Neha here. Today is my first day officially keeping an eye on your questions in the forum. There is a bit of a theme I noticed, so here is a quick tip if you too are having trouble with your first active focus experiences. --- First, as Alex mentions often, it can take time to find active focus. Don't rush it, it will come to you as long as you make the effort with a good blur distance. [...]
Does Ocular Stretching Improve Your Eyesight?
Ocular stretching. Can it possibly improve your eyesight? Let's investigate. It's going to be about this:A group of muscles that rotate your eye. Versus this:A single, circular muscle inside your eye.How do those two images explain the merit, or lack thereof, of "ocular stretching"? Let's take a look, and with it debunk a lot of the "eye yoga" and "eye exercise" misinformation that is out there on the Web.Inspiration for this topic, from a question in the forum from Cadence:I read about ocular [...]
How To Get A $600 Pair Of Glasses For $200
Alex sends me a link to a forum post today, from a German client looking for the best way to buy glasses and save money.I'm somewhat notorious on this subject, since I've bought hundreds of pairs of glasses over the years, everywhere from Moscow and Berlin to Kathmandu and Saigon (and of course, online). There's a lot to be said for quality of frames and lenses, and staff that knows their way around frame adjustments, and also to find you great [...]