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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!
“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 [...]
How To Improve Eyesight – Effectively And Without Surgery
In his book, "Story Of The Human Body" Daniel Lieberman has this to say about myopia: Nearsightedness is a complex trait caused by many interactions among a large number of genes and multiple environmental factors. However, since people’s genes haven’t changed much in the last few centuries, the recent worldwide epidemic of myopia must result primarily from environmental shifts. Of all the factors identified, the most commonly identified culprit is close work:intent focusing for long periods of time on nearby images such [...]
Corinne’s Cure Myopia Journey
We have all heard the story from the optometrist: "Can't cure myopia". It is for this reason that I like collecting the stories of program participants here, especially posts from the support forum. But of course I am not the only one providing tools to help reduce and cure myopia. And while I am biased towards the finer points of the method discussed here, you can absolutely improve your vision using the strategies referenced on some other sites.This particular story [...]