Category Archives: Questionable Therapy

Andrew Huberman Eye Exercises (Why You Shouldn’t Bother)

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Did you come here looking for Andrew Huberman eye exercises?

Well.  There is good news, and bad news.  

The good news is, I made a (very very bad news) reaction video to the Huberman Lab Podcast episode with Dr. Goldberg on “improving eye health”.  

Andrew Huberman Eye Exercises?

Well … I tell you the best place to start to find out what ole Hubes knows about myopia, eyesight, and how to improve your eyesight.  It’s his recent podcast talking about eye health, which turned out to be very telling.

I made a reaction video.  Which explains everything you need to know about eyes, eye exercises, Dr. Huberman, and things to not waste your time on.

Yes yes.  I just hit play on their episode, and record on the ole Webcam.  Perhaps that wasn’t the right idea.  It’s a genuine reaction, I didn’t see any part of the episode prior to this ‘live’ take:

If you’ve watched it …. yea.  There is some very needless impolite opining on my part happening.

I tried to edit some of it out actually, when re-watching it I totally see why people gave me a hard time in the comments.  

It’s harsh.  

Again though, it was my real reaction.  I could not believe that two Stanford ophthalmology PhD’s know this little about eye biology and myopia.  It’s been my pet topic for 20 years now and it’s one of the things that pushes my buttons.  I know, you know.  That and there would be no endmyopia anyway if I didn’t have this particular personality or affliction with the myopia topic.

Dr. Andrew Huberman appears to NOT understand myopia causes.  Or perhaps he does, but it’s not in his handler’s commercial interests for you to know.  Or hey, here’s an ophthalmology journal article literally stating that glasses cause myopia.  Not something you’ll get from Huberman Lab’s podcast, eh?

If you want to know why your eyes are messed up exactly, check out my short animated eye health series.

Without knowing for sure, it looks like Huberman and Chief Inspector Dr. Goldenberger are just clowns.  Yes, if your favorite ole Jakey toned it down, the odds of ever getting on a podcast with with these guys might be non-zero (as it is now probably).  I want to, believe me.  But how do you stay cool when you first hear the nonsense they talk about?  The “light spectrum, maybe”?

This is how we will never get cozier with the mainstream, or appeal to a larger audience.  You’ve got a (magnificently bearded) guy at the helm with little to gain, no sense of propriety, no finesse, no aspirations of fame or fortune.  It’s not a great recipe for success.

Or is it.  I think it’s more fun to get a smaller crowd, but one you don’t have to walk on egg shells on, for.  Be all lowest-common-denominator friendly and hypoallergenic for the masses.

Huberman Lab: Eye Health Is A Mystery

The Huberman Lab episode on eye health is as bogus as it gets.   

Also though consider that they’re part of a 100 BILLION dollar a year industry, that exists primarily by pretending their treatment doesn’t cause more myopia.  Cause more myopia, cause more profits.  Ignore the actual root cause, just get people on a lifetime symptom treatment program.  Stanford University, kids.  Helping big business make big money.  If you’re looking for Andrew Huberman to tell you about eye exercises, you’re heading for a dead end.

Huberman wouldn’t have a few million followers either, if he were to bite the very hand that feeds him and his ilk.   If you want to know what actual professionals say, check out this article explaining how “failing to discuss myopia prevention verges on negligence“.

It’s all scam.  Check out this LA Times Article, titled “How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear“.  That one’s a doozy.  6,000% average markup on lenses, darling.  That’s what they do to you.  All while the figureheads like dearest deer-in-headlight Huberman shrug and go, “well we don’t know what causes it”.

Check out my very genuine reaction in the video above, where we actually take the time to dissect their points, shine a spotlight on ignorance (purposeful or not), and do some ‘splaining on what actually goes on with your eyeballs.

Impolitely.  

Hey, maybe one day Jakey will be poor and you’ll get something more palatable than rants and digressions.  Meanwhile if you want to see what happens if you listen to a guy who actually understand eye health and myopia, these are some of the results.

Cheers,

-Jake

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

Zeiss MyoCare S Lens Review: Lofty Promises, $6,000 Price Tag

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I know, you know.

This isn’t really going to be the definitive and glowing review of  Zeiss MyoCare S lenses.  

The easy fix to your eyes not getting worse, is not a few defocus rings (though yes the premise is supported by science).  But to understand what it all means, let’s dive into this not-really-review and a short missive on myopia control and half-truths, and stick around to the end because you can stop your eyes getting worse without spending a lot of money on fancy lenses.

If you know me, you know that I always keep saying the same thing:  The 100 billion dollar a year lens industry isn’t stupid.  They didn’t build one of the biggest sources of recurring revenue and profit on earth, by not knowing what they’re doing.

They Know Their Glasses Are ‘Addictive’

They know.  They know that their glasses cause more of the problem, and by selling them to you once, they’ll have you buying them for life.

Here’s a short video I made a while back, explaining the idea:

That’s how it works.  (and here’s more short explainers about eyesight)

Seems outlandish!  A lot of of Internet health stuff and otherwise non-mainstream ideas definitely should cause a health dose of skepticism.  In this case though we’re talking about the most mainstream of mainstream companies, telling you that other glasses indeed make your eyes worse.

Wow.

Zeiss MyoCare S:  Less Bad … Is Better?

Read on for Zeiss saying that minus lenses cause more myopia.  

Well not exactly, you have to know a little bit about the biology terms they try to impress you with (without really explaining the meaning).   What they’re literally saying is that their special MyoCare S lenses don’t do – what the regular glasses do:

Zeiss Mycare S Lenses

The link to their MyoCare lenses currently is here.

Let’s make sense of what they’re saying:  So there is axial change (elongation and shortening) which is what happens inside your eyeball when it’s working to adjust for ideal vision.  It’s a very neat focal plane adjusting mechanism in your biology that works from the day you’re born, to the day you die.  

Putting minus lenses in front of your eyes can add to the stimulus that tells your eyeballs “we’re too short right now, we need to elongate”.

That’s hyperopic defocus.  Caused by the glasses they sell you.  Which is why your (can) eyes get worse, wearing glasses.  As I also explain in the quick video above.

Yes I’ve been saying it for decade(s).  They know all about what causes your eyes to get worse, axial elongation and what causes it, but they won’t tell you unless there is some specific economic incentive to do so.  Which isn’t unique to lens sellers, that’s the case with any and all business.  

It has to have customers, it has to be economically viable, the narrative has to lead to an outcome of creating shareholder value.

A Cheaper Alternative To Zeiss MyoCare S

Do you really need to shell out for MyoCare S lenses?  Well … you could just get differential glasses.  

That’s any brand, for a few bucks.  You just need to know the right diopters.  

And that’s the little secret they definitely don’t want you to know.  Because how do you stop your eyes getting worse and axial elongation, really?  You don’t cause hyperopic defocus, that’s how.  Which means not wearing full power full distance glasses while you’re just looking at a screen in front of your face.

Fix the focal plane, fix the problem.  No need to buy special patented lenses for it.

The same result, at much less cost.  And we don’t just ‘slow myopia progression’ here.  Our aim is to get rid of their lens subscriptions altogether.  That they really don’t want us talking about though, since that would put (most of them) out of business.

Zeiss Myocare Pricing

Quick update after the monthly e-mails I send out, got a huge bunch of feedback (we have a quarter million e-mail subscribers, wow I forget sometimes).  

Things like this:

SIX. THOUSAND. DOLLARS.

Well now you know the price on them telling you the truth about their glasses.  Maybe it’s $3,000 if you just need them for one pair of eyes – though I’m pretty confident they’ll find more things to add onto that bill.

Retail optometry.  What an epic, unending, hilarious scam.  

In Our Podcast: Zeiss Myocare Hypocrisy 

Anyway …

Ideally none of this is news to you, and you’re already making 20/20 gains.

Cheers,

-Jake

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

Zeiss MyoCare S Lens Review: “Regular Glasses Cause More Myopia”

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I know, you know.

This isn’t really going to be the definitive and glowing review of  Zeiss MyoCare S lenses.  

The easy fix to your eyes not getting worse, is not a few defocus rings (though yes the premise is supported by science).  But to understand what it all means, let’s dive into this not-really-review and a short missive on myopia control and half-truths, and stick around to the end because you can stop your eyes getting worse without spending a lot of money on fancy lenses.

If you know me, you know that I always keep saying the same thing:  The 100 billion dollar a year lens industry isn’t stupid.  They didn’t build one of the biggest sources of recurring revenue and profit on earth, by not knowing what they’re doing.

They Know Their Glasses Are ‘Addictive’

They know.  They know that their glasses cause more of the problem, and by selling them to you once, they’ll have you buying them for life.

Here’s a short video I made a while back, explaining the idea:

That’s how it works.  (and here’s more short explainers about eyesight)

Seems outlandish!  A lot of of Internet health stuff and otherwise non-mainstream ideas definitely should cause a health dose of skepticism.  In this case though we’re talking about the most mainstream of mainstream companies, telling you that other glasses indeed make your eyes worse.

Wow.

Zeiss MyoCare S:  Less Bad … Is Better?

Read on for Zeiss saying that minus lenses cause more myopia.  

Well not exactly, you have to know a little bit about the biology terms they try to impress you with (without really explaining the meaning).   What they’re literally saying is that their special MyoCare S lenses don’t do – what the regular glasses do:

Zeiss Mycare S Lenses

The link to their MyoCare lenses currently is here.

Let’s make sense of what they’re saying:  So there is axial change (elongation and shortening) which is what happens inside your eyeball when it’s working to adjust for ideal vision.  It’s a very neat focal plane adjusting mechanism in your biology that works from the day you’re born, to the day you die.  

Putting minus lenses in front of your eyes can add to the stimulus that tells your eyeballs “we’re too short right now, we need to elongate”.

That’s hyperopic defocus.  Caused by the glasses they sell you.  Which is why your (can) eyes get worse, wearing glasses.  As I also explain in the quick video above.

Yes I’ve been saying it for decade(s).  They know all about what causes your eyes to get worse, axial elongation and what causes it, but they won’t tell you unless there is some specific economic incentive to do so.  Which isn’t unique to lens sellers, that’s the case with any and all business.  

It has to have customers, it has to be economically viable, the narrative has to lead to an outcome of creating shareholder value.

A Cheaper Alternative To Zeiss MyoCare S

Do you really need to shell out for MyoCare S lenses?  Well … you could just get differential glasses.  

That’s any brand, for a few bucks.  You just need to know the right diopters.  

And that’s the little secret they definitely don’t want you to know.  Because how do you stop your eyes getting worse and axial elongation, really?  You don’t cause hyperopic defocus, that’s how.  Which means not wearing full power full distance glasses while you’re just looking at a screen in front of your face.

Fix the focal plane, fix the problem.  No need to buy special patented lenses for it.

The same result, at much less cost.  And we don’t just ‘slow myopia progression’ here.  Our aim is to get rid of their lens subscriptions altogether.  That they really don’t want us talking about though, since that would put (most of them) out of business.

Zeiss Myocare Pricing

Quick update after the monthly e-mails I send out, got a huge bunch of feedback (we have a quarter million e-mail subscribers, wow I forget sometimes).  

Things like this:

SIX. THOUSAND. DOLLARS.

Well now you know the price on them telling you the truth about their glasses.  Maybe it’s $3,000 if you just need them for one pair of eyes – though I’m pretty confident they’ll find more things to add onto that bill.

Retail optometry.  What an epic, unending, hilarious scam.  

Anyway …

Ideally none of this is news to you, and you’re already making 20/20 gains.

Cheers,

-Jake

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

LASIK: I Was Wrong About It

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Welcome back to our humble blogs of the Interwebs.

I stand before you today to finally admit to the most egregious of my ever present failings.  Many as they are.

Today’s confession, my previous terrible opinions about LASIK and related elective eyesight improvement surgeries, done by professionals.  Who have degrees and educations and certainly deserve all of our well earned trust and unquestioned respect.

How could I have spoken ill of the elective surgery business in the first place?

Honestly.  These are surgeons.  They have studied for years and years and also, years.  They’ve interned, practiced, read the books, done the work.  And who am I, some Internet fake eye guru to ongoingly trash talk their vastly superiors skills and intellects?

No, darlings.  I’m here to admit it.  I was wrong.  This stops here and now.

Elective surgery works great, there are no issues, and for sure these guys absolutely know what they are doing.  To fully publicly admit my wrongdoing, even posted full admission of my erroneous ways on the Twitter:

Retweet if you’re Twitterly inclined.  Share the shame that is Jakey The Beard, and his obvious failings at respecting the most dignified of all professional professions.

Amen.

Cheers,

– Jake

P.S.:  Your eyes aren’t “broken”.

It’s your lens use and habits that keep making your eyes worse.  And the massive hundred billion dollar optics industry loves it.   They keep selling you stronger and stronger glasses, and tell you stories of some mysterious genetic “myopia illness”.

It’s nonsense.  Your eyes are perfectly healthy.  

Check out Annette’s post in our Facebook group.  From -5.25 down to the last diopter already:

Exactly.

We have lots of tools and courses to help you with your own eyesight goals.  Explore our free 7 lesson starter guide, and see specific courses for you own vision needs.  Direct one-on-one support with Jake is available, too.

20% course price increase from January 2023.  Lock in current lower prices with a lifetime membership and support.  Explore course options here.

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

The Optometrist Shop = A Business Selling Glasses

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In case you’re new to all of this endmyopia stuff, a quick note:

That optometrist shop is just a retail store.

Most of them are in shopping malls, all of them exist to sell a product – glasses.  They’re not in business to diagnose your eye health, they’re not in business to keep your eyes healthy, they’re not in business to know or teach you about biology.

The business is what it says on your shopping receipt.

What does it say on your receipt?

Thaaaat’s right.  They are in business to sell glasses.

An optician is not a medical doctor.   An optician is a lens seller.

An optometrist is not a medical doctor, either.

“Licensed to prescribe corrective lenses”.

Or as we simple folk would say, selling glasses.

Yes they can diagnose some basic vision health issues.  Guess what though – if they find real medical issues, they will refer you to an actual medical doctor.  They’re doctors the way a tow truck operator is an auto mechanic, in that they can confirm that your car is broken town and tow you to a shop to fix it.

These statement don’t make your favorite Jakey very popular with the establishment.  They can’t exactly deny the principal validity of my statements.  But still, they don’t like somebody pointing it all out.

What’s the point of this rant?

This post in our Facebook group.

Yes, we do have opticians and optometrists in our group.  For all the obvious reasons, they tend to be low key. One does not want to bite the hands that feeds them.

Selling you more glasses, or just making more money is certainly the main interest of the retail optometry business.  The site that Jia is referring to, just a fine piece of marketing.  They basically claim that they can take your (optometry) business and teach you how to gauge customers for way more money, yay:

A thing of beauty.

We already know that retail optometry is a giant ripoff.  Executives of the largest US optometry chain have admitted so themselves.  And if you keep looking, as in above example, you’ll find that this is just true no matter what.

You may already know that the wholesale cost of lenses can be as little as $0.83.  Which is why you can pop online and buy full pairs of glasses, frames and all, for as little as $10 to $20 on lots of sites.

I’m also not saying that the entire industry is evil charlatans.  Not at all – some are just misinformed or simply don’t care.  And also there are plenty that are pretty good.  Because of course any amount of reading peer reviewed clinical science will explain the cause of nearsightedness to anyone curious.

There are even plenty of optometrists that will confirm your eyesight improvements.

It’s a swamp out there.  If there’s money to be made vs. your well-being considered, you know which way that tide will turn.  You have the fancy titles and pretty shops on one hand, and the deep end of the Internet on the other, ready to claim all sorts of conspiracy and outlandish alternatives.

Hopefully you find endmyopia somewhere in the middle.  Outlandish only in rants and sarcasm, otherwise ideally grounded in functional approaches and scientific curiosity.

Go forth and make some 20/20 gains.

Cheers,

– Jake

P.S.:  Your eyes aren’t “broken”.

It’s your lens use and habits that keep making your eyes worse.  And the massive hundred billion dollar optics industry loves it.   They keep selling you stronger and stronger glasses, and tell you stories of some mysterious genetic “myopia illness”.

It’s nonsense.  Your eyes are perfectly healthy.  

Check out Annette’s post in our Facebook group.  From -5.25 down to the last diopter already:

Exactly.

We have lots of tools and courses to help you with your own eyesight goals.  Explore our free 7 lesson starter guide, and see specific courses for you own vision needs.  Direct one-on-one support with Jake is available, too.

20% course price increase from January 2023.  Lock in current lower prices with a lifetime membership and support.  Explore course options here.

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

Statin Eye Side Effects

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First, Jakey = not a doctor.  So statin eye side effects just an eye guru insight, not a doctor diagnosis.

Second, if you’re on statins and you haven’t looked at the various statin documentaries and studies showing how lowering cholesterol really may not reduce your risk of heart disease, I recommend starting there.

For heart disease and prevention, Fat Emperor is by far my favorite resource.

Let’s look at this statin eye side effects topic.

Statin Eye Side Effect: Double Vision

Eyes, part of the system as a whole.

Whenever your vision suddenly isn’t right and you’ve been intervening on some other front of your physical self, think of this as a potential red flag. 

Your body is trying to tell you something isn’t going right.

My take, you don’t want to dramatically lower your cholesterol, just because a mainstream doctor told you to.  I’m saying this with particular emphasis as my own father was a medical doctor and he too loved statins.  There was no talking to him about it, he refused to look at any new science or evidence.  Once he was sold on statins helping him avoid heart disease, it was case closed.

Don’t expect your doctor to necessarily be a researcher or scientist, or even open minded.  Statins may just be his answer to everything.

Statins have a lot of complex side effects.  Lowering cholesterol may not prevent heart disease.  It’s a deep rabbit hole.

I recommend checking your CAC (arterial calcification score) by having your heart looked at by one of the fancy 3d heart scanner things.  It’s the actual way to see if your heart is at risk of heart disease, or if you already have heart disease.  Using cholesterol as sole indicator is plainly medieval at this stage of what we know and the diagnostic tools that are available.

Eliminate Statin Eye Side Effects

My response to Richard and his observed statin eye side effect.

Don’t get corrective lenses for this.

Don’t cover up this symptom.  Use this symptom to re-balance yourself back to where your body wants to be.  Then go figure out arterial calcification.  Figure out cholesterol in far more detail.  Adjust diet if need be, get off those pills.

Again, Jake isn’t a doctor.  A doctor is probably just going to sell you whatever pills they’ve been sold on.

Important, IMHO:  Use the eye side effect as a guide.  Don’t cover it up.  Otherwise you’re potentially heading down the wrong direction on multiple fronts and find yourself in overall worse health than when you started with these guys.

And in general for more on double vision sorting see this and this post.  Our wiki has a ton more resources to help with eyes.  In cases like this though, follow the cause of the symptom, don’t just use tools to cover it up (rather than addressing the root cause).  

Hopefully a helpful start.

Cheers,

-Jake

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

Ayurveda To Improve Eyesight: Magic Or Impossible?

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Can Ayurveda improve your eyesight?  Or in a wider sense, the question ye ole guru gets a lot:  “Can I improve my eyesight just by eating stuff?”

Whether that’s vitamin pills or some far fetched pseudo-ancient wisdoms of herb things, anything to not face the simple reality of screen addiction and not having a life to actually go see.  

If you want to save the time, the answer is no.  Ayurveda doesn’t sh*t for your eyesight.  

And why would it? 

Here’s not why:

Go read the comment section, too.  It’s fairly epic.

Gasp Jake, why are you attacking India!  Teh Ayurvedaz is teh best!

I’m not saying I’m right here.  Maybe crushing up precisely five pieces of pepper and massaging your feet and putting rose water in your eye is exactly what you were missing to ‘cure’ your myopia.  Maybe.  Go forth and try it, report back with results.

If it works, we’ll add it to the ever expanding wisdoms of endmyopia.  Sort of like the Borg.  

Here’s dude man’s original video, from the dude who is all about selling the vitamin powders, and zero percent about looking at actual science or biology.

Behold, Ayurveda to improve eyesight, in “five steps”.  Guaranteed, even!

This is who people want to listen to.  I guess we get what we deserve.

Or Jake is delusional and should just get with the program.  Rose water and foot massages and crushed up pepper pieces.  Sell products, and sell people exactly the sort of fix they want to hear works, even if it’ll not do anything whatsoever.  

I know, I know.  Stirring the pot.  Mainly though let’s see what we can do to improve ourselves, the world, bits around us.  If it has to be with sarcasm or whatever limits our personalities impose, so be it.  If you’re going outside and seeing the world and smiling, it’s a win.

If you want to check out more of these various alternate approaches to improving eyesight, I have lots categorized under ‘questionable therapy’.  Enjoy!

Cheers,

-Jake

P.S.:  Your eyes aren’t “broken”.

It’s your lens use and habits that keep making your eyes worse.  And the massive hundred billion dollar optics industry loves it.   They keep selling you stronger and stronger glasses, and tell you stories of some mysterious genetic “myopia illness”.

It’s nonsense.  Your eyes are perfectly healthy.  

Check out Annette’s post in our Facebook group.  From -5.25 down to the last diopter already:

Exactly.

To find out how Annette did this, grab a copy of my free (yes, darling freeloaders, don’t pay me for this one) 7-Day guide.  It’ll teach you all the basics on how to start getting your eyes back.  No sales pitch!  

Get the free guide here (and see available courses).

*No eye exercises, no Bates Method, no unicorn farming.  Just science and evidence based stimulus and habit changes.

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

Optometrist: “Must Have Been Measurement Error, Bro”

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Hello, my name is Jake Steiner.  I’m a one trick pony.  All I’m here to tell you is that …

Retail optometry is a 100 billion dollar a year scheme to sell you a lifetime lens subscription – while hiding from you the fact that you could very easily just fix your eyesight.

The irony of the universe.  Jake, the guy who least enjoys conspiracy minded whispers, and mainstream denialists, and Internet hippies, and all the “they’re out to get you” stories, …. ends up being the exact person to say all of those kinds of things.

It pains me.  I know what I sound like, telling you that optometry operates on a foundation of lies, and that their “treatment” only makes you depend on more of that “treatment”.

But such is life.  

Actual, real, life.  Not even conspiracy, just straight in your face:

Well, isn’t that veird, jaaa?

Petra couldn’t have been improving, unless of course she went to an optometrist who didn’t have her prior results handy.  

Pure coincidence.

But just like the potential malice of selling super low diopter glasses to people who don’t need them (rant post here from just yesterday), this happens every. single. day.

Like here, literally from the same day, in our Facebook group:

Yea, must have been some kind of mistake, the last measurement.

Anything to fit the retail lens selling narrative of some kind of “mysterious genetic defect, and nothing can be done about it besides selling glasses”.  Even if literally the opto measures a notable improvement, the obvious can not be admitted to.

Of course if you’re reading this in early 2021, parallels could be drawn to other dubious stories circling the planet now, with dubious science and large profit opportunities and all the thing we won’t get into (because who knows, and that’s not the ole guru’s topic).  

Still.  Science is clear on what causes myopia.  And those whose income relies on there being an irreversible condition are doing all they can to keep the narrative on top.

Come to your own conclusions.

Cheers,

-Jake

P.S.:  Your eyes aren’t “broken”.

It’s your lens use and habits that keep making your eyes worse.  And the massive hundred billion dollar optics industry loves it.   They keep selling you stronger and stronger glasses, and tell you stories of some mysterious genetic “myopia illness”.

It’s nonsense.  Your eyes are perfectly healthy.  

Check out Annette’s post in our Facebook group.  From -5.25 down to the last diopter already:

Exactly.

To find out how Annette did this, grab a copy of my free (yes, darling freeloaders, don’t pay me for this one) 7-Day guide.  It’ll teach you all the basics on how to start getting your eyes back.  No sales pitch!  

*No eye exercises, no Bates Method, no unicorn farming.  Just science and evidence based stimulus and habit changes.

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

Optometrist Silenced For Speaking Out Against Glasses

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Maurice Brummer, Optometrist.

Expelled from his Optometrical Association for daring to say that glasses, when used as currently “prescribed” are a liability to people’s eyesight.

Oops.

While there are good individual optometrists, helpful and open-minded, the establishment as a whole knowingly and aggressively tries to prevent knowledge about the risk of lenses of reaching the public.

This example is for Australia. The same is true for plenty of other places. Anytime an optometrist speaks out, quoting published and peer reviewed clinical science, they are threatened, silenced, punished for doing so. By the very institutions meant to oversee their practices and protecting the public.

Just as a little FYI. This sh*t is really going on. Not in the middle ages, but today. In 2020.

Buyer be ware, kittehs.

-Jake

P.S.:  Your eyes aren’t “broken”.

It’s your lens use and habits that keep making your eyes worse.  And the massive hundred billion dollar optics industry loves it.   They keep selling you stronger and stronger glasses, and tell you stories of some mysterious genetic “myopia illness”.

It’s nonsense.  Your eyes are perfectly healthy.  

Check out Annette’s post in our Facebook group.  From -5.25 down to the last diopter already:

Exactly.

To find out how Annette did this, grab a copy of my free (yes, darling freeloaders, don’t pay me for this one) 7-Day guide.  It’ll teach you all the basics on how to start getting your eyes back.  No sales pitch!  

*No eye exercises, no Bates Method, no unicorn farming.  Just science and evidence based stimulus and habit changes.

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

The Atlantic: The Great American Eye-Exam Scam

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Ohhhhh snap, kittehz.

Yascha Mounk of The Atlantic went out and delivered one epic face-slap to the mafia operation that is retail optometry.   He titles it, The Great American Eye Exam Scam.

It’s juicy and it’s delicious. 

Yascha asks all the right questions:

So why does the United States require people who want to purchase something as simple as a curved piece of plastic to get a prescription, preceded by a costly medical exam?

And of course the answers are all hiding in plain sight:

One possible reason for such strict vision-wear rules is that many people have a financial interest in this burdensome system.

Of course also true, the mafia like activities that your favorite old tottery eye guru has been shouting about on his little corner soap box, for years:

It is little wonder, then, that American optometrists spend a lot of money on lobbying. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, for example, the AOA spent $1.8 million on lobbying and another $1.4 million on campaign contributions in 2016. And although the AOA was unsuccessful in its attempt to block the laws requiring optometrists to give patients a copy of their prescription, any attempt to remove the need for frequent office visits (the exact figure depends on whether you wear glasses or contacts, among other factors) is likely to meet with stiff resistance.

That’s right.  They tried to make sure you can’t even get those diopter numbers that you paid for.  That the sort of scum-baggery that we’re dealing with.

The whole system is a huge scam.  Myopia is reversible.  You don’t need glasses.  The only reason you’re wearing them is because they want to keep making all that easy money by forcing you to subscribe to your own 20/20 eyesight using their products.

Please do spend a moment, tweet @Yascha Mounk, let him know you appreciate this kind of reporting.  Encourage journalists to continue digging and exposing this charlatanry.  

Cheers,

Jake