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!
Success and Failure in Vision Improvement
Early on, when I started to put the core part of our clinic program online, I knew that the Web would be a challenge. A challenge for you, not having my office as a reference, not getting a real life handshake, not having the people and place to relate to. Without all that, this is just another Website on the internet. I realized that we would need to have some way to interact in a fashion that others could follow. [...]
How To: Preventing Dry Eyes
Dry eyes can contribute to reduced focusing ability. You may have noticed this, especially if you are using correctly reduced prescriptions - when your eyes are dry, your ability to refocus on objects close to your blur horizon is diminished. There are a number of causes for dry eyes, some of them chronic. While we can not account for all of them here, let's take a look at of the easily prevented scenarios: Ambient Air Flow If your eyes are [...]
Child Myopia Diopter Strategies
I have a whole category of the blog dedicated to child myopia (link to child myopia subjects). We can't apply all the adult strategies verbatim, since there is a big difference between most children, vs. adults: the child might not really so much care about sacrificing short term convenience, for long term gain. In fact, it is quite unlikely for most children, especially in the more vulnerable to eyesight change younger years, to be uncomfortable, for the promise of some [...]
Should I Stop Wearing Glasses?
I see this question a lot, in various forms. Let's look at similar prescription related mistakes: Wearing under corrected lenses, without understanding active focus. Never getting eye checkups, for fear or bad news / higher prescription. Not ever wearing glasses, despite myopia diagnosis of several diopters. The instinct, of course, is the correct one. A false focal plane, as it is created by glasses, is in concept not good for your eyes. Further, if you wear one, and [...]
My Favorite Close-Up Strain Minimizer
If you have been visiting, hoping in vain for new content, I apologize. There is always still much else going on, even with this Website. Most recently I spent quite a bit of time to get rid of the slow load times. They have been plaguing the site for a good six months! I hope that you are enjoying some improve load times now. As for my favorite close-up strain minimizer, this is a simple but highly effective strategy: Of [...]
The Definitive Guide: What Is Astigmatism
What Is Astigmatism? A defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images. There are any number of highly detailed sources all over the Web, discussing the question of 'what is astigmatism' in terms of physiological flaw of the eye. While we won't go through the trouble of reiterating all the commonly information here, we will take a closer [...]