The Guru vs. The Medicine Man
Twitter. Not sure what I just got us into, with the social bits. Yesterday I received a tweet thing, someone asking whether I have a medical degree. I respond with a link to Steve Leung's interview....
View ArticleNever Change The Diopter Ratio
Roy posts in the forum: So I started my next reduction Right: -7.0 -> -6.5 Left: -7.5 -> -7.0 I just started yesterday and notice that my left eye gets the flash of clear vision more easily than...
View ArticleHeadaches & Fatigue: Measure Your Pupillary Distance (PD)
PD (pupillary distance) can be an important part of your lens prescription, and notably affect your general well-being. If you have high myopia, and in particular high myopia and high astigmatism, an...
View ArticleBreast 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...
View ArticleMichelle: Can I Reduce Prescriptions to -7.00?
Michelle posts an update in the forum: I have been wearing the reduced prescription, -7.5 contacts in both eyes for 3 weeks now. I received my glasses, +1.5, last week and have been using them for...
View ArticlePrescription Tracking: Create Your Forum Signature
Help me help you - create a forum signature with your diopter details. If I can just look at your signature (which shows up under every post you make) to get your current prescription numbers, it saves...
View ArticleFinally: More Checkout Options
A quick housekeeping note: I know you've asked for this to-do item for years, quite literally. More payment options for your membership. If you've been following the blog you probably already know...
View ArticleI Don’t Spell Check
Rant post. Best just skip this one. I know. I'm not professional like the rest of the health talk world. That ship long sailed, somewhere around the time I started referring to you, my darling...
View ArticleUS National Academy Of Sciences: Near Work Causes Myopia
A quick thanks to those who e-mailed in response to yesterday's post. Yes, I was losing my mind just a little bit there. It's a real issue with committing to bring you daily posts here on the blog,...
View ArticleFrom -2.25 To No-Glasses Clear Flashes
Matthew posts an update in the forum: I posted last month about a nice prescription reduction and my excitement about the progress I have made since last year. I reduced to: OD -2.50 *-.25 *177 OS...
View ArticleAl Does It With Just The Blog: -4.75 To 3.00 Progress
You can significantly improve your eyesight, just using the blog. I often say that you don't need to buy things from me. The e-mail series, plus reading, will definitely give you all the right ideas....
View ArticleTroubleshooting Uncomfortable Blur
There's a long-ish thread in the forum right now, titled "first normalized experiences, can anyone relate". Topic of the thread, uncomfortable blur when moving from the full prescription to the first...
View Article23 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...
View ArticleFara: -4.00 To -2.25 In 2 Months
Topic of today's post had already made it over to Twitter a couple days ago. (and apologies, the title is a wee bit glamorizing reality) I get a fair amount of e-mail, of two varieties. There are the...
View ArticleCataract 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...
View ArticleDangerous: 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...
View ArticleLens Induced Myopia (Investigative Ophthalmology)
Let's go all straight science today. No fluff, no saucer eyes. Title of today's science exhibit: Imposed Peripheral Myopic Defocus Can Prevent the Development of Lens–Induced Myopia Brought to us...
View ArticleI Bought A Macbook Air In The Himalayas
Warning: This is just musings, not really worth reading for eyesight health advice. You might just go tl;dr, WTH, Jake. The long and short of this whole post, don't let technology enable bad...
View ArticleNovartis 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...
View ArticleConnected? Sugar, Sleep & Bad Eyesight
Glasses stop a key feedback loop from working properly. You're supposed to get "warnings" when you abuse your body. But with lens prescriptions, you might not be. At some point in the future,...
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