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Oskar: 17 Years Old, Reverses 5 Years Of Myopia (-9.25)
Looks like we've been neglecting updates from the Temple of Gains, lately. So let's get to a bit of catching up. Today we've got Oskar - who is about to escape the madness of double digit diopter myopia: Lens pimps, not thrilled by this. You know you love these progress updates. And we'll skip making fun of old-timey lens sellers today. We're going to resist starting any kind of meme theme with similarly insightful theories as the "myopia is genetic" conspiracy theory. We [...]
STUDY: Does Undercorrection Cause More Myopia?
Here's today's (pseudo?) science argument: Your glasses aren't strong enough, so your eyes will get even worse. Fact, or fiction? If you've been digging into myopia science (good on you!), you've probably come across Chung and his drum beating that undercorrection causes more progressive myopia. One of the things most challenging about finding answers in scientific literature, is having to dig through nonsense. Faulty logic, poorly conceived experiments, lacking critical data, bias, and the ever-present excessive use of fluff-science-language. You can't [...]
Simple Changes Reduced 10 Year Old’s Myopia By 34%
The story today: Ten year old girl reduces myopia from -1.50 diopters to -1.00 diopters, in just one single year. And anyone can do this for their child. A smart reader once pointed out that endmyopia isn't alternative medicine, or a competitor to modern optometry. Endmyopia is simply not about medicine. Endmyopia is about science. We look at studies, we conduct experiments, we test hypotheses, we measure, we record, we quantify results. We don't advocate cures, we don't proclaim to be [...]
Won’t Do LASIK, Eye Doctor Calls Her A Coward
You saw the title and clicked. You're expecting a rant from uncle Jakey. But no. This is going to go all differently. A bit of a public service announcement, this post. Be aware that questioning your doctor's diagnosis is neither polite nor appropriate. Even if it sounds like a sales pitch to your admittedly untrained, non-medically educated little clueless ears, don't start asking a bunch of questions. You came to the professional for professional advice, you got the advice. Also, this post [...]
New Differentials: Plateau Or Rapid Improvement?
What happens when you get new differentials? Does your vision improve rapidly, do you end up seeing just as well as with the previous, higher diopter differentials in a matter of days? Or is it a long, tedious process to get back to your previous level of centimeter distance from the screen with the lower correction? As usual, interpreting your experience isn't entirely straightforward or one-size-fits-all. Biology is always a very individual experience. And there are variables such as whether [...]
Where Are My Gains?!
If you started recently and not seeing all the 20/20 gains (yet), this article is for you. Are you experiencing slow improvement rate? Let's figure out the scenarios. After a decade and thousands of students, we've got a pretty good profile for the average myope profile that we encounter here. Give or take a few variables, this is very likely close to your own scenario, too. The Average Myope Profile Let's see how close (or not at all close) you are [...]