The Myopia Mindset

Dr. Leah Johnson and Dr. Cary Herzberg react to new research where indigo light prevented myopia in tree shrews, and explain why they still tell parents to send kids outside.This is a preview to one of our subscriber only episodes on Substack.Get the full episode here: https://myopiamindset.substack.com/Substack Subscribers get an inbox update when we post a new episode, early episodes, a weekly newsletter - PLUS bonus content for paying subscribers.

After ten years building Treehouse Eyes, Matt Oerding says the practices that succeed at myopia management aren't the ones with the best story. They're the ones with a system, a doctor with convictionGet the full episode here: https://myopiamindset.substack.com/Substack Subscribers get an inbox update when we post a new episode, early episodes, a weekly newsletter - PLUS bonus content for paying subscribers.

Why a lens-design software company opened its own lab, and how they get new fitters to a first-fit win.Get the full episode here: https://myopiamindset.substack.com/Substack Subscribers get an inbox update when we post a new episode, early episodes, a weekly newsletter - PLUS bonus content for paying subscribers.Mark Cosgrove, Dr. Sukh Gill and Josh Martinez. You may know them from Doctor’s Own Design. Today they’re Aurora GP Lab Inc., and this episode is all about why.

If there’s ever a Mount Rushmore of myopia management, Dr. Thomas Aller is on it.His work shaped where this field is today, and most are using a version of it every week, whether we know it or not. So I wanted to hear how it actually started. The answer: frustration, a payphone, and a lot of stubbornness.Get the full episode here: https://myopiamindset.substack.com/Substack Subscribers get an inbox update when we post a new episode, early episodes, a weekly newsletter - PLUS bonus content for paying subscribers.

This is a preview to one of our subscriber only episodes on Substack.Get the full episode here: https://myopiamindset.substack.com/Substack Subscribers get an inbox update when we post a new episode, early episodes, a weekly newsletter - PLUS bonus content for paying subscribers.This month’s question came from Dr. Andrew Brauer, by way of a text he sent Cary. Andrew had heard Cary say something on a previous episode — an idea Cary traces back to his own mentor — about how sometimes the profession needs to stop trying to convince the doctors and just take the message straight to the patients who need to hear it. Andrew couldn’t shake it. So he sent Cary a text, Cary said we should do this on the show, and that’s how we ended up here.

Dr. Matthew Martin on front-loading the hard part of ortho-K so the next ten years mostly run themselves, and why doctors who keep redesigning happy patients are making their own work.This is a preview to one of our subscriber only episodes on Substack.Get the full episode here: https://myopiamindset.substack.com/Substack Subscribers get an inbox update when we post a new episode, early episodes, a weekly newsletter - PLUS bonus content for paying subscribers.

Dr. Shefali Miglani is one of the most successful myopia management doctors I know. She's also the only guest who opened by telling me she failed. She had the lens, the technology and the topography map, and parents still nodded politely and walked out without signing up.When she figured out why, it changed everything. She'd been talking about her technology, her training and herself, and the parent in the room had no idea where they fit in.We cover why information doesn't convert, why the scare-tactic opener costs you the parent in seconds, what "calm certainty" sounds like, and her reframe on who the hero in your exam room really is. She also talks openly about masculine and feminine energy in practice, and what changed when she stopped bringing a warrior energy into the room that wasn't hers.If you've ever watched a parent say thank you after a great consult and never come back, this one's for you.For the full episode breakdown, read the companion piece on The Myopia Mindset Substack: https://myopiamindset.substack.com/p/why-parents-say-no-to-myopia-management

Dr. David Ng went inside Vision China 2026 — AI risk models trained on more than a million records, ten-year axial trajectories predicted from a single retinal photograph, and a national approach to childhood myopia that makes ours look accidental. Dr. Cary Herzberg, Dr. Andrew Brauer and Dr. Priscilla Chang break down what it means for the rest of us.This is the third story from this month's Myopia News Monthly. The full episode also covers a study where 24.5% of non-myopic high school students became myopic in three years, and a new randomized trial on repeated low-level red light therapy — plus twenty minutes of the panel arguing about whether myopia management is specialty care or primary care.Full episode and every month's breakdown: myopiamindset.substack.com#myopia #myopiamanagement #optometry

Dr. Jennifer Lyerly walks through the STAR study numbers, the parents who just want the glasses, and the 25-year-old nobody knows what to do with.Join Us on Substack: full podcast + articles + bonus contentmyopiamindset.substack.com

Subscribe on Substack: Weekly podcast + article + bonus content ↓ https://myopiamindset.substack.comDr. Carrie Hartigan on building a pediatric-only practice, training a myopia coordinator, winning pediatrician referrals, and why one flat fee changed how she treats every kid.ABOUT THE SHOWThe Myopia Mindset — conversations with the optometrists and myopia specialists figuring this out in real time. Full episode: https://myopiamindset.substack.com