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.
The Problem With Simulating Natural Stimulus
One of the ways to get my blood pressure to increase is to send me the latest in food replacement science. You may see it on the news, all the "superfood shakes" and ways to skip an actual meal, and supposedly get all the nutrition your body requires. Interesting experiments, certainly. I enjoy all of our delving into the human biology. I enjoy it, except for when people get serious about replacing life with simulation.Or rather, maybe I struggle with [...]
Axial Elongation Of The Eyeball: Facts & Fiction
Strap in for a whole lot of science talk!
Challenge Yourself (And Your Friends) To A Game Of Distance Vision
There is a problem with my old brain, and many years of doing myopia rehab. Or more accurately, there is a problem with this format of delivering eyesight health content to you - me writing at a screen, which impassively stares back at me. It is a very strange new way for someone like me, who is trained to work based on interaction and feedback. Even e-mails are challenging, because of the huge amount of time that passes between individual messages.You [...]
They Exist! Places In The World That Practice Myopia Prevention And Rehabilitation
We live in a a tiny bubble. I live in a tiny bubble. Though we do live in extraordinary times, where companies like Google expand our access to information in ways that were inconceivable just a decade ago. This is just the beginning of a larger access to knowledge. And it is still very limited when it comes to only locally accessible health related knowledge. You might still have to stumble across an individual in some small town somewhere in the [...]
Your Eyesight Is Far Better Than You Might Know: Let’s Talk Double Vision
Every few weeks I get somebody asking to get the whole course all at once. And every time, it's a request I refuse. After 40 years of doing this, I have witnessed some aspects of human nature. If you take the course and read it as a book, you will nod gravely in the end, and consider it an excellent guide. Then you might take some concepts as you remember them, make up a few other things, and call it [...]
How Optometrists And Poor Prescriptions Choices Can Hurt Your Eyesight
The eye is a dynamic construct. It is designed to see in bright light and in near darkness. Up-close and at great distances. It has an incredibly complex focusing mechanism, and billions of receptor sites to read the image received by your retinas. Glasses on the other hand, are a very primitive solution. Invented 600 years ago, when we knew hardly anything about the human eye or myopia, they are still a poor stand-in for our modern lifestyle induced eyesight [...]