(Video): Forum Q&A In The Works
I get annoyed by things. The glossy uber-eco, new age health super-foods-nuts Websites. The Yoga princesses and perfect vegan, local-fair-trade foodie Instragrams. (Though curiously, this is what...
View ArticleQ&A Time! Disposable Contact Lenses = The Devil
Here's some forum Q&A. Want more? Let me know in ze comments. Apologies about all the background noise. Massive construction project across the street. Cheers, - Jake
View ArticleNo More Surgery? A New Eye Drop Dissolves Cataracts
Researchers in the US have developed a new drug that can be delivered directly into the eye via an eye dropper to shrink down and dissolve cataracts - the leading cause of blindness in humans. While...
View Article40% Better In 75 Days: Will Kicks Myopia’s A** (-5.00 to -3.00)
William, straight from the forum: Starting Script: -5.00(R)/-5.25(L) (contacts) Now: -3.00(R)/-3.25(L) (currently 2 wks at this script) Right eye “easy” 20/25Left eye “hard” 20/50 I’m following the...
View ArticleSnapchat, The General’s Son, & Paragliding In Nepal
A couple of months ago, I was invited to help the son of a prominent military general with his eyesight. It was a hell of a trip. Private planes, military escorts, pomp and circumstance. A man who...
View ArticleLow Myopia vs. High Myopia
Two interesting stories, today. First one is from Paul, who asks via e-mail: I’ve been browsing through your 7 day email course and first of all I wanted to say thank you for all the incredible and...
View ArticleOuch. Here’s How You Mess Up Your Eyes
Grabbed that shot above on the Bangkok subway last week. Look at those people, no clue that they're working hard on ruining their eyesight. Artificial lighting, pretty dim to begin with. A subway, in...
View ArticleOutdoor Motivations: My Bike Friday Tikit
It's off-topic Sunday. I care about my eyeballs. They want to be outdoors, see the world. So one of my planned habits is adding reasons to get outside. And stay outside. Since I'm a huge nerd and...
View ArticleIs It Possible? 20/50 to 20/15 Vision In 3 Weeks
Kim writes in the forum: So, it’s been about 3 weeks now with my -4.25 (L) and -4.75 (R) normalized prescription. For a while now, I could only see around 20/50 and sometimes 20/40. Starting around...
View ArticleThe All Important 1,000 LUX Rule
Luxie, luxie. Just the other day I finally got around to updating the Web program to some lux-goodness. It's something Alex wasn't that big on, but I happen to think is not just interesting but also...
View ArticleThe Two Sides Of The Blur Horizon
We often talk about the importance of clear vision. This is to put in perspective my frequent lamentations about the overprescription paradigm of mainstream optometry. Just because they overprescribe...
View ArticleDon’t Flip-Flop Between Old & New Glasses
Richard asks in the forum: I received my new glasses and they are defintiely going to take some getting used to. Even with the -3.0 on the left eye, without the astigmatism correction the right is...
View Article#@#% Sugar & How Pericarditis “Treatment” Almost Killed Me
Off-topic Sunday. Have I ever mentioned how much I'm not a fan of the fruit hippie superfood-yoga-mediation movement? Which makes this little story (of how I may well almost have died) all the more...
View Article(Video) Q&A – Christian & Double Vision Images
Latest one in an ongoing series of attempts of doing video Q&A. Contents: Recognize the difference between blur & double vision How to deal with double vision Leverage double vision to improve...
View Article(Video) Q&A: How To Start The Day Off Without Glasses
Quick video Q&A again today. (because, thanks for the thumbs ups!) This one, from a question Ernest asks in the forum: I always start out new participants with a little morning activity. Which...
View ArticleJust Call It What It Is: LENS SALES
From one of the ump-teen crappy news sites (with some comments in red. don't know how those got there): The importance of children's eye exams ... LAWTON, Okla._School starts in just a few days, so a...
View ArticlePRK & LASIK: Serious Side Effects?
Here's how you educate yourself about the potential risks of laser surgery, and learn about a potentially decent choice of doctors to do the procedure for you: 1. Ask your PRK / LASIK doctor just one...
View ArticleThe 1960’s Harvard Pirate Kitten Experiment: A Closed Eye Goes Blind
All right so that title is a little clickbait-ey. But let's look at this not-Schroedinger's cat experiment. It's meant to figure out how our brains might develop, relative to our eyesight. It's...
View ArticleGet Rid Of The Home Office: It’s Crap For Your Eyes
Semi off-topic Sunday. I'm not great at predictable weekly style articles. Today let's look at why I tell all my clients to scrap their home offices. Whenever I used to go see someone and they...
View ArticleThis Might Take A Minute
The Task: A two minute explainer about the history of glasses. The Goal: Dispel the (quite false) public opinion that glasses were invented by doctors and scientists, to treat myopia. The Progress:...
View Article