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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!
Al-Irfan: -4.25 To -2.50 | Shortsighted Podcast
Note: Also available as an episode in the Shortsighted Podcast 🎙. To listen to it in your favorite podcast player, see our podcast page for all available directories. It's 2020, kittehz. Aka, time to stop f*cking around. This is the year that an ole Jakey is going to throw off the tottery old guru robe. Stop hunching and immediate look a whole guru-esque foot taller, beard gleaming dangerously foreboding ... ly, in the morning mountain sunrise. All that while getting [...]
Is Your Phone Killing Your Vision Improvement?
As you may know, your favorite old timey eye guru, uncle VanderJakenhausen Le Third, lives in an off-grid jungle. You know where my phone is right now? Right. I don't either. Somewhere in the house. Maybe near the charger. I do use it to tether to tenuous 3G Internet to make you these posts and videos, so it's definitely on and definitely probably somewhere. Where it's for sure not though, is in my pocket. It's nearly never in my [...]
Death Of The “Eye Exam”? 1-800-Contacts Buys Eye Exam Smartphone App
The online contact lens e-commerce site 1-800-Contacts buys at-home eye exam software maker 6over6. Doesn't sound like a big deal to most of us. And yet, it will be. Right now it is just another sign of the huge sea change in how you buy glasses, that's about to revolutionize the eyeglass industry. Imagine your retail optometrist being the dinosaur looking up at the sky right now, idly wondering what that huge rock coming towards him might be [...]
Why Is My Eyesight Worse In: Low Light / Indoors / Dusk / Night Time
Here’s a great analysis from Jonathan over in our Le Meow forum – of how and why your eyesight seems worse according to lighting conditions: Hi, my name is Jonathan, and I’ve been a lurker here for a while. I’m currently at about -3.6 diopters in both eyes down from around -4.75 (20-20 measurement). This is actually my second go at this, about 15 years ago I tried something similar, discovered what we now call “Active Focus”, got some good [...]
Live Chat With Sharada: -3.75 To -1.00 Progress Update
First live chat with a fellow endmyopian, darlings! It went ... well, it went like the sort of thing you'd expect from uncle Jake. Not very well planned, a bit off the cuff, with plenty of hiccups and glitches. Are we surprised. No. No we are not. Regardless, Sharada saved the day with an excellent accounting of how she made it down from -3.75 to being glasses-free for most of her day time needs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OTIn9ivbc This is how we do [...]
The Atlantic: The Great American Eye-Exam Scam
Ohhhhh snap, kittehz. Yascha Mounk of The Atlantic went out and delivered one epic face-slap to the mafia operation that is retail optometry. He titles it, The Great American Eye Exam Scam. It's juicy and it's delicious. Yascha asks all the right questions: So why does the United States require people who want to purchase something as simple as a curved piece of plastic to get a prescription, preceded by a costly medical exam? And of course the answers [...]