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!
Prescriptions Like Steroids – How Your Glasses Might Give You Unnatural Vision
Your optometrist is supposed to correct your vision deficiency. The goal should be for you to be able to see clearly at a distance. But how much correction are you actually given? And what does it do to you eyesight?---The optometry theory is that you should be able to see clearly at any distance. If your eyes work as they should, objects should just look smaller at greater distances, but never blurred. When you go to get an eye exam, [...]
Guided Meditation For Close-Up Eye Strain Relief
Too much close-up is the root of all myopia troubles. Unfortunately most of us need lots of close-up time for our daily lives. Less eye strain alone won't fix myopia, but it will help prevent worsening eyesight (and help you get effective rehab results).We make lots of recommendations here to deal with close-up strain.#1 is to never wear your distance vision glasses while working up-close. If you can't see your screen without glasses, a good differential prescription is going to help [...]
Your Health vs. Their Profit: HBO Talks About The Billion Dollar Prescription Scam
HBO's "Last Week Tonight": Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars a year, marketing to doctors. Drugs are prescribed for unrelated symptoms. Doctors are heavily incentivized to write more prescriptions.As you read this article and watch the HBO video, consider: have you ever gone to the optometrist and not been sold prescribed something? How about that mantra of "it's genetic, there is no cure"?---If you are a long time reader of this site and have been rehabilitating your vision, you undoubtedly [...]
Embryonic Stem Cells To Fix Macular Degeneration
Macular degeneration has been long viewed as yet another one of the "age related" eye diseases. And while as usual the establishment doesn't seem to take much interest in some of the other potential causes and prevention options, possible cures at least look promising.Here, an NPR blog health article discussing stem cell treatments:Scientists are reporting the first strong evidence that human embryonic stem cells may be helping patients.The cells appear to have improved the vision in more than half of [...]
Johnny’s -2.50 Update: Ahead Of Expectations
Johnny writes in the forum:Just to let you all know (or whoever is following this) that I have stepped down to -2.50 about a month ahead of expectations. Double vision was vastly reduced and almost gone. Thinking about it my eye did feel a bit strained….so I tried wearing a -2.50 lens. Amazingly things weren’t that blurred. This surprised me. Now a few days later I am seeing consistently 20/20 with a little bit of double vision but certainly nothing [...]
Improving Eyesight As You Get Older
Yesterday we get this comment on the original myopia-squatch post:Maybe we need a new category. "Silly things optometrists say". Aka the myopia-squatch hunt.Yes, yes. Hardening of the lens. A furry paw print in the dusty office closet. What the optometrists usually like to quote is accommodative range, and the reduction thereof with age. It's something I don't fully agree with (in terms of the numbers), but it's a fairly well established progression:That's the reduction of accommodative range. If the term is [...]
