General Vision Health Topics. Mostly we talk about myopia here, which we don’t consider to be an illness. While on that subject we do often end up crossing over into related issues that you may encounter, while working to reduce your myopia.
Everything from dry eyes, to the dangers of certain antibiotics, to risks of retinal detachment and glaucoma and lattice degeneration, you’ll find all the vision health related topics in this category.
Why do Singaporean kids have eye sight problems that are 3-4x the world average?
This question, recently on Quora. Here's my response:I can speak with some authority on this topic, having reversed my own -5.00 diopters of myopia. I also have thousands of students working on controlling their own myopia, including a number of Sinagporeans who successfully stopped their myopia progression and even reversed it (glad to introduce you, if you like for some first hand insights). It may sound far fetched at first, but if you're willing to look at science and ignore retail [...]
The Unstoppable Global Myopia Epidemic – Doubles Again
The largest study of childhood eye diseases ever undertaken in the U.S. confirms that the incidence of childhood myopia among American children has more than doubled over the last 50 years. The findings echo a troubling trend among adults and children in Asia, where 90 percent or more of the population have been diagnosed with myopia, up from 10 to 20 percent 60 years ago.The Multi-Ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study (MEPEDS), conducted by researchers and clinicians from the USC Eye [...]
Taking Sides On Myopia Control
Despi, our new BackTo20/20-participating optometrist is an interesting case. She looked at the site, while it was still all "anti-optometrist", and didn't take offense. She read through a bunch of things, and asked intelligent questions. She pointed out that optometry isn't the enemy. I was truly surprised by her attitude.Sure, we have quite a few optometrist friends. But they're all fringe types. They're either into behavioral optometry, or they will let you get lower prescriptions if you ask them. People [...]
I Did It Again! All Day Stuck Ciliary
Stuck ciliary muscle. You know when it happens, because everything is stuck in double vision limbo, and your blur horizon is way too close.Happens to you?Definitely happens to me. Sometimes it's just not starting the day out right, and then never taking enough of a break to resolve the issue. It's important to sit back sometimes, realize what happened, and not get overly anxious.Here's me complaining about my focusing muscle woes:Starting out the day with some distance vision, reduced diopter [...]
Macular Degeneration: Make That Money, Big Pharma!
From The Motley Fool:Why Opthotech Corporation Shares Skyrocketed by 75% in 2015A potential to change the standard of care in a multibillion-dollar market has sparked investor enthusiasm.SOURCE: NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE.What: A new adjunct therapy under development that could improve outcomes for people suffering from a form of age-related vision loss caused shares in Ophthotech Corporation (NASDAQ:OPHT) to soar higher by 75% in 2015, according to Capital IQ.So what: An increasingly larger and longer-living population means more people are being diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration, and that's [...]
Don’t Care Till It’s Gone
We don't care about health, in a preventative sense.Some people care. But most of us, instant gratification and handy excuses, over making good choices. I'm that way, nothing to judge about it. Except that it seems a site like this should be making a big selling point for how much better life could be, with just some small habit changes. Great natural eyesight, no worrying about floaters and retinal detachment, and forever optometrist bills, and not seeing anything at the [...]