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!
Internet Scams And What You Really Mean When You Say Myopia Cure
In my daily e-mails, I get these two questions quite a lot:"Why does nobody talk about a myopia cure?" and "Why are there so many Internet scams on eyesight health?"The reason for both, besides the topics we discuss on the main page of this site in depth, is one that most people never have given any thought.Let's look at the first question - the myopia cure:When you ask about improving your eyesight, or the cause of myopia, or curing your [...]
Bethany’s Progress: 30% Better Eyesight In Two Months
Bethany writes:Hey Alex,I signed up for your 4 installments on myopia rehab about 2 months ago.I have been making some lifestyle changes for my eyes(and overall health. I am using better posture and distance for close-up work, stimulating my eyes, getting outside more, and pretty much cutting out all processed foods, especially sugars.I am noticing awesome improvements; I am so excited and relieved.I know you stopped giving the course and was wondering if I could still get onto the forum.I [...]
“The Story Of The Human Body” – Harvard Evolutionary Biologist Discusses Myopia
Over the last decades in this field, I find amusement in how often we "discover" the trouble with myopia. This time it is Daniel Lieberman, in his book "The Story of the Human Body."Today David brings us this excellent contribution via the support forum, in this post.Just got done reading Harvard professor, Daniel Lieberman’s book call The Story of the Human Body and it has a great section on myopia in it that has Lieberman essentially suggesting that, while admitting it is controversial (likely [...]
Where The Money Goes (And How You Can Help)
I made a rule for myself, when I began this site as a vision improvement resource.A number of colleagues and friends advised that this project would drive me mad as well as empty my bank accounts. As I am a bit of a cautious individual by nature, I looked for a compromise - hear their concerns, but also not be dissuaded in bringing this resource online. My compromise rule was this:I'd donate my time to the site. All tangible monetary expenses, [...]
151 Ophthalmologists Earn $658 Million In Medicare Payments
We talked about how much money the lens manufacturers make. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year in revenue, from an illness that is manufactured by their very industry.Doctors though, also benefit handsomely from towing the company line for lens manufacturers.Let's look at highlights of the full and disturbing story, from this PBS article:WASHINGTON — Medicare paid a tiny group of doctors $3 million or more apiece in 2012. One got nearly $21 million.Those are among the findings of an [...]
Magda: Astigmatism Cure
Magda writes about her astigmatism cure:Dear Alex,I am so excited to tell you --- I was prescribed by the glasses shop -3.50 and 4.25 recently. I persuaded him to reduce them to my old prescription of -2.75 and -3, but he also added a ton of astigmatism adjustments, 40 and 80. Three weeks later I just now purchased and tried on a pair of glasses with a straight focal plane, both measuring -2.50. My eyes relaxed and released in a way [...]