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.
Novartis Sabotages Reasonable Eye Treatment
Health for profit. Doctors and symptom treatment. Big pharma owning the narrative. I bring up stories substantiating this, often. Why? Because your darling frou-frou hippie eye guru knows about the power of doctrine. Both of my parents are medical doctors. It's like a pill-firing brigade of pharma sales yes-man, back in the childhood home of Jakey. You can't talk to them about it, either. My dad in particular, smart guy. Mensa. Private practice & ran major clinics. Published. Patients [...]
Dangerous: Cosmetic Contact Lenses
Today, a little topic on ways to screw up perfectly good eyes. Or, "look what the kids are into". Good times ahead! Odds are that if you're over 30 and living in a Western country, you haven't even heard much about cosmetic contact lenses. You're thinking right now, what, Jake. Nobody I know wears cosmetic contacts. But if you are a 20 year old girl in a major city somewhere in Asia (though odds are 99% you aren't), you very [...]
Cataract Eye Surgery Through The Ages
The Centre For Sight, a London-based eye surgery facility, posted this rather interesting cataract surgery infographic on their Twitters: And before you ask, no, we're not now shilling for laser surgery clinics. This is just me playing nice with the mainstream, credit where it's due. Between this and my link over on Twitter to studies for eye drops that may dissolve cataracts, this kind of infographic is still just a snapshot of our collective progress towards a cataract-free future. If [...]
23 Billion Euros
My morning Twitter contributions (which you are so totally missing out on if you're not following) include Justin Bieber, a Monsanto match made in heaven, and ... wait for it. A little explainer first: Essilor is a lens manufacturer. One of the biggest in the world. They make the minus lenses you wear for instant clear vision, which a lot of scientific studies have suggested create the progressive myopia that millions of people suffer from. Essilor is celebrating 40 years on [...]
Breast Feeding: Why It Matters to Baby Eyesight
This article, just a short intro to some infant eye development concepts. If you'd told me in my 20's that I'd one be talking in a quasi-expert capacity about infant eyesight, I'd have told you that you're crazy. Back then I was mostly just interested in offshore boats and vintage motorcycles, and ways to amusingly shorten my life expectancy. But here we are, a decade or two later. Old man Jake is going to tell you things about infant eyesight. [...]
5 Billion Myopic People By 2050
This, from Medical Daily: By 2050, an increase in myopia, or nearsightedness, may reach epidemic proportions, potentially blinding up to one billion people worldwide. After examining studies of trendssurrounding myopia globally, researchers at the Brien Holden Vision Institute are encouraging us to act now to prevent widespread vision loss from becoming a reality. The researchers have also found that half the world’s population, or an estimated five billion people, will likely be myopic by 2050, with one-fifth falling into the high myopic category, meaning they are at [...]