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

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

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LASIK: I Was Wrong About It

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

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The Optometrist Shop = A Business Selling Glasses

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

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Is An Optometrist A ‘Real’ Doctor?

Of course the optometrist is a real doctor.

Don’t disrespect their four year degree.

Yea ok so it’s not the 8+ years an actual medical doctor has to go through, plus residency, the massive investment of time and money that it takes to really become the person who should be calling themselves ‘doctor’.

Though realistically, anybody can call themselves ‘doctor‘.

And literally every hack on the Internet with an online acupuncture (or massage) degree does it anyway.  Apparently you can give endocrinology advice online, and sell supplements even if all you got is some online degree in massage therapy.

So what’s the problem.  At least that retail lens seller did actually spend four years in (remedial?) school to call you a ‘patient’, quite brazenly, and charge you 5,000% markups on clear curved plastic that will actually make your eyes worse.

All of it is fine.  Respect their authoratah.

And also never post this video in reply to some four-year lens sales school flunky insisting that you call them ‘doctor’.

Don’t troll.  Be nice.

Either way, consider making some 20/20 gains.

-Jake

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13 Year Old Child: From -3.00 Up To -6.00 Diopter (In Two Years!)

It’s been a while, darlings.  

It sometimes feels as though the world as moved on from written words and blogs and things, towards reels and TikTok things and scroll-ey bits and YouTube shorts and podcasts.

All media that a beard is clearly too old for.  

Or perhaps, too majestic.  

Speaking of, I should be doing more terrible YouTube videos.  They do get dozens upon dozens of views and it’s not at all a fruitless effort.  Do kids these days even need eyesight that goes beyond arm’s length?  And will they need it once Zucky McZuckerf*ck gets his way with Web3, the metaverse, the total ownership of your attention and reality to live in his corporate digital reality?

Who knows.  I’m old.  Not in touch.  Here’s who’s not old, though:

Lame!

I have kids.  Maybe you have kids.  Letting these retail optometry halfwits direct the eyesight of your children should be illegal.  They have zero clue what they’re doing.  

Best case scenario.

Or maybe plenty of that industry knows exactly what they’re doing, which is how they turned selling glasses and making your eyes turn to sh*t a hundred billion (with a b!) dollar a year business.  Nobody reads the science or the studies or understands the biology, or takes the time for any of it.

Ah well.  It does break my heart, though.

There are good news though:

It’s always a mixed bag, life.  And the guru inbox.  Let’s pick another good news one:

I guess you have to be smart to see well.

Or lucky.  Or be the type to ask plenty of questions.  The type to overlook the occasional misgivings of a dubious beard, and dig into endmyopia despite these unnecessary rants and digressions.

Best part?  These are just a couple of e-mails, from a single day.  Most days include quite a few bits of encouraging news and progress updates, and people clearly having discovered endmyopia and made sense of its inner workings.  It continues to encourage.

Now, will I make more videos?  Reels and things?  

Maybe.  Whenever I manage to overlook feeling like a psycho talking to myself, at a camera lens.  See you over on the Tubes!

Cheers,

Il Jaquarino Los Tres

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5 Reasons: Why Glasses Are Awesome

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.

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“You Need Glasses”: A Story About Profit

It’s no secret.  Ole Jakey likes weird art.

And causing raised eyebrows and states of confusion, perhaps sprinkled in the occasional disbelief.

Making things accessible to the lowest common denominator, the pursuers of quick fixes and easy answers and oversimplifications?  Sure that probably what most people want.

 Just the steps please, Jake.  That’ll do nicely.

Less tempting, though.  

I’ll pay for art any day.  Weird, instructive, maybe not entirely necessary.

Endmyopia might never be the destination for the Instagram influencer audience.  Or the followers of Dr. Whosey-Whatsits, shoppers on his extensive online health supplements catalog.  Maybe one day somebody more determined will make an endmyopia that’s more focused on the practical and mundane.

Until then though, let the weird rule!  

Also go make some 20/20 gains.

-Jakey

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Here’s What: Nobody Gives a F**k

Random digression-ey rant today, kittehz.

Benefit of having a counter-optometry-myths bloglet that nobody reads, and information nobody gives the vaguest sh*t about.  You can basically say whatever you want, without being cancelled or otherwise mass-idiot-mobbed by shut-in dorks with no social skills or worthwhile aspirations (aka all of reddit, Twitter).

Humans to a great extent, are low expectation sheep minded creatures.  You tell them what to do, how to live, what to think, and they’ll do just that.  

For random example and because ole Jakey’s got some kids about to go to school:  Do you really need eight zillion years of “schooling”, when all known science and even various university administrators admit freely that you remember less than 5% of all that so-called education?  What you’re actually learning from a young age, is to sit still for long periods, and accept all manner of completely irrational authority.  It’s how large scale society works.  You need lots of drones for everyone to play along with collective (in-?)sanity.

It’s playing out right before your eyes, with the latest saga and machinations of all the fun going on currently (2021, if you’re reading this in the unknown future).  It’s how the Soviet Union worked, and Nazi Germany, and whatever the f*ck is going on today all over the world. 

Myopia and glasses and this entire superfluous topic of getting rid of an imagined mysterious genetic condition, par for the course.  Nobody cares.  You need to put on plastic lenses every day just to see around you?  And science says there’s no illness and you could reverse the problem?

Meh who cares, they say.  They’ve got menial jobs to tend to, social media to scroll through, vapid opinions to share in nobody-reads-them comment threads.  

No time or point for self reflection or improvement.

Oh, here’s Erica, a counterpoint to this little rant:

Ok so some people care.

It’s shocking really, the state of human large group behavior.  But not surprising.

 Yours truly made a fairly conspicuous amount of financial freedom credits in various ways over the past decades.  Lived in broken down cars, sleeping long frozen winters in metal boxes, survived on sample grocery store food and showered in cheap gyms.  Rather than spending money on rent and utilities and car payments, saved every penny to escape the machine and find freedom.  Paying salaries while living like a hobo.  Sure, random people are casually envious today post-all-efforts, but friends have ever taken me up on offers to help them become similarly unshackled from quasi slave-ish 9 to five existences.  Short term sacrifice for long term gain?  Not how the human brain likes to operate. 

People are just fine not reaching up.  Not living a life like they’ll actually die, and want to experience something worthwhile on the way.  Shit job, fine.  Idiot boss, oh well.  Can’t see?  Yea well who cares.

It’s making me want to shake people.  But then, why bother.

Maintaining endmyopia is a bit of sanity.  Seeing how some people actually take to somewhat complex information, explore the meaning of ideas of Beardly subterfuges, going out on a limb, reducing their lens dependence, making actual changes that may improve their existence.  It does make an old begruntled vagabond happy and slightly counteracts my general lack of faith in humanity’s point or future.  

You need to be able to see.  If you don’t care even about your eyes, where are you going to end up?

Obviously you care.  Be weird.  Don’t fit into the giant sheeple machine.  Go make some 20/20 gains.

Evolution’s only judgment, is what survives.  

Cheers,

Jakey, Sock Of Puppet

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Bates Method For 20/20 Eyesight? Probably Not

Rant time.

So there was an improvement report post in our Facebook group:

-6.50 to -4.50 gains.  Which, nice.

Whole thread is here.

Let me spare you going to look for yourself though because anytime somebody posts an improvement update, all the you-know-what comes out of the woodwork. 

Yes, that.

I don’t know what it is, to be honest.

Is it a language barrier?  Is it just, a different learning style?  Is it lazy, ie. let me copy your homework, you explain to me what you did, let me skip the line, I don’t need to read all this, just … tell me the stepz?

Also since we live in this weird time of entitlement and censorship and not hurt anyone’s feelings, ole Jake is now the one feeling a bit trapped as to how far we can express sentiments on above style of community participation.  I for one, really thinking just GTFO, this is not the place to be lazy and ignoring the search function and expecting others to hand you success on a sliver platter.

But then I realize I’m a bit of an a**hole and I accidentally created a resources that gives hope to (and can be discovered by) the zombie hordes that might be humanity at large.

The original rant was going to be about Bates Method.  This e-mail:

See what he did, there?

Vision improvement is relatively simple.  I even post lengthy repeat explanations in our forum.  

Seems that we live in a world where censorship rules the day in democratic countries, where science is apparently banned from the conversation if it’s not conveniently supporting the narrative, and the hordes of unthinking masses support all of it.

In a way, getting your 20/20 vision back is an act of defiance.  And success in the face of the will of society.

That or your favorite guru went without coffee today and the withdrawals are speaking here.

Cheerios.  20/20 gains, para ti.

-Jake

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Optometrist: “Must Have Been Measurement Error, Bro”

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

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