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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!
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 [...]
Sara: A Reduced Prescription Could Make Your Day
Sara writes in the forum:My new normalized glasses arrived! I wanted to see what a 0.5 diopter drop would be like, so I ordered them with OS -4 and OD -4.25.I put them on this evening when I came home, and I loved how I saw. For the most part everything is clear, so my brain registers it as “normal”, and the world looks bigger, which is great. I get a light blur starting at 8 to 10 feet (this [...]
Logs vs. No Logs & Snellen vs. Natural Impression
I advocate the use of a log for your eyesight improvement project. This practice helps makes the progress more tangible, and eliminate subjective concerns. It also helps me provide you with some direction, when you feel stuck. Maybe this is a bit of a stereotype of my culture, the methodical approach to everything, but it certainly is effective. Here is a great example of a log, that I recently received for review: And while in most cases, after the initial [...]