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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!
Depression, Anxiety? You Might Want To Avoid These Frames
The style of your glasses frames might subtly affect your mood. Certain types of frames that limit your field of vision can lead to an indistinct sense of unease or depression. There are many interesting little details one may find over the years, when working with thousands of myopia sufferers. The type of frames used in glasses didn't cross my mind for a very long time - in retrospect, it is something that fairly obviously can impact your experience of [...]
Tricks for Using The Tape Measure
Liam, kindly sharing some of his strategies, posts this in the forum: Regarding the tape measure thing here’s what I do: I can hook the tape measure on the edge of my laptop and measure as far as I need to. If you use a desktop some blue tack should be fine as long as you guesstimate how much of the tape measure you’re going to need to use first. The full thread is here. There are lots of creative [...]
Karen: The Difference Two Months Can Make
Karen posts a two month review in the forum:I started about 2 months ago, in early January. All in all, it has not been a particularly good start to the year. I’ve spent about 3 or 4 weeks either being sick or getting over being sick, so I’ve had very little energy, and my motivation has been intermittent at best. The sidewalks have been iced over for a month and a half, and it’s cold out. So my short walks [...]
Personal Note: You Are All In My Thoughts
It is a bit of a dreary Monday morning here, with spring still struggling to assert itself. There is quite a bit of construction noise outside, the gray skies are not providing the best ambient light for me catching up with your e-mails. And it is quite a bit of e-mail. Every one of them I read that talk about improvement and victories, make me smile. I want to post them all here to the blog, to help you [...]
Sara: Improving Centimeter from 62 to 90
And once again, a note here from Sara with lots more details:11 months ago, I had just received my differential prescription of -3/-3. At the time, I could see anywhere from 55 to 62 cm clearly with them (I was testing the eyes separately).Now, that same prescription has given me greater than 90 cm of clarity in the mornings (testing the eyes together). It’s actually getting kind of hard to measure, because my arm isn’t long enough to hold my tape [...]
Troubling Facts: Commercial Interests Driving Medical Science
This is a bit of a departure from our usual discussion about vision health - but nonetheless relevant and important for you to consider. It's a different sort of myopia, in a figurative sense. Dr. John Abramson of the Harvard Medical School says the following in an interview with Managed Care: ABRAMSON: For 20 years, I practiced family medicine about 45 minutes north of Boston. I read my journals each week and believed that by applying the latest medical information contained [...]