Ep32 - Myopia and Eye Problems - How to Resolve via Resolution of Root Causes
The Fat Emperor Podcast
ivor cummins
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Episode 32 was one of my favorites - a fascinating discussion around the understanding and resolution of common vision problems. Jake is incredibly articulate and seriously up on the science. See https://endmyopia.org/end-myopia-home/ for further excellent advice...
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INDEX:
00:00:39 Introduction and “What is Myopia” in simplified terms
00:08:51 Twitter arguments, orthodox dogmas and following the published science
00:12:25 What is your screen-use doing to your eyes?
00:18:13 The evolution of reading, and where myopia originated
00:22:33 Myopia epidemic in West and East – all over the world!
00:25:23 The “genetics” deceit – it overwhelmingly ain’t genetics
00:28:10 Macular Dengeneration – a different animal, more driven by sugar and seed oils
00:30:29 Fixing the Root Causes – practical interventions
00:32:42 Taking control – the fix is easy, but big business “sees it” differently!
00:36:12 Parallels with CAC – we want to help those who want to help themselves
00:37:43 Impacts on children, and retinal detachment / other knock-on effects
00:40:12 Investing in industries which profit from the lie
00:42:12 Astigmatism and “pre-existing” conditions – genuine eye defects
00:45:44 Closing arguments on resolving your own issues – taking control
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Singapore and Hong Kong, because I spent a fair bit of time in both places, have a quoted incidence |
| 0:07.8 | rate of myopia in school-age children in excess of 90%. 90. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. I'm your host, Ivor Cummins. We're supported by the Irish |
| 0:23.7 | Heart Disease Awareness charity, which advocates a simple CT scan to reveal your CAC score. So, |
| 0:30.3 | know your score and take action to prevent that premature heart attack. Everything you need to know |
| 0:35.6 | will be right here today I'm with |
| 0:40.0 | Jake Steiner who is an expert in myopia about the causes and the potential |
| 0:46.0 | solutions not necessarily the orthodox ones so I'm gonna find this really |
| 0:50.9 | interesting because it's a field I haven't really looked into at all. |
| 0:54.5 | And we might touch on some other eyesight problems as well. |
| 0:57.6 | So great to meet you, Jake. |
| 0:59.3 | Great to meet you. |
| 1:00.3 | And I like that you started me right off with unorthodox. |
| 1:05.7 | I have been accused of being slightly unorthodox at times also. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, good. You're in good company exactly well |
| 1:15.7 | as you i like your site end myopia dot org because you repeatedly stress this is based on published science |
| 1:23.5 | and at the bottom of many of your pages there's the full list of published papers which pertain to what you talk about, which is great because I'm similar. |
| 1:32.3 | It's always back to published peer-reviewed science rather than beliefs or ideals. |
| 1:38.9 | Yeah, and I think in this topic we're going to find out here shortly. |
| 1:42.5 | This is incredibly important because it is so |
| 1:44.7 | far on the unorthodox side that i think it's incredibly important for people to have a way to |
| 1:51.3 | establish a baseline of how does this make any sense excellent yeah and again this is for the layperson |
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