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Questions & Answers.  You have questions.  And Jake has answers, especially if they haven’t been covered in one of the other sections of the blog / free guides.  

Many of the topics here originate from your e-mails, or from Quora, or threads in our Facebook group, or even YouTube comments on occasion.  Natural myopia control is a wide ranging and complex subject, and this might be the section to find answers to some of your questions.  Browse and discover!

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 [...]

By |LASIK, Questionable Therapy|
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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 [...]

By |Glasses, Nearsighted: Q&A|
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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 [...]

By |Just With Blog, Nearsighted: How To's|
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Polycarbonate Lenses – Bad For Your Eyes?

Science time.  Fasten your seatbelts! Before we get into it, let's address the clickbait title.  It's exactly about that, this post.  Getting baited and scared into buying things.  Know how they get you! First, I want to show you that clinical science knows a lot, a whole lot more about the eye than most of the retail outlets we have all frequented for myopia advice.  Let's see that the so-called optometry medicine has little to do with optometry science.  Retail optometry owns the right to make certain claims [...]

By |Eyesight Health: Evidence Based Science|
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This Tea Tastes Like Fish (& Christina’s 1st Month Progress Report)

Your darling Jakey, updating the proceedings today for you from a very local flavor coffee shop in some very tucked away, very windy town. Somewhere in Vietnam.   It's not a tourist spot, that's for very definitely sure.  A vaguely bearded guru-face rode along so many endless miles of seemingly abandoned (and shockingly beautiful) coastal road, fate seemed committed to run me out of fuel completely and permanently.  No vaguest semblance of a gas station in sight for hours.  Jake would end [...]

By |Just With Blog|
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All contents on this site should be considered research material only.  We are not offering medical advice or treatment or cures for any illnesses. The reduced lens method is strictly experimental. Before considering taking steps to control your own myopia, you should definitely visit a qualified ophthalmologist for a comprehensive eyesight checkup.   Specific diagnoses illnesses aside,  most) myopia may be considered to not be an illness at all.  Most myopia is likely just a matter of environmental strain, and excessive prescription use.  You yourself may be able to control and reduce your own myopia by 1) managing eye strain, 2) conservative prescription lens use, and 3) targeted positive stimulus. We recommend finding a prevention minded optometrist to supplement your journey with professional advice and prescription management help.  While not a requisite, a supportive optometrist may make your journey that much more enjoyable! Potential Side Effects: (1) You may experience astigmatism-like symptoms, especially if you reduce too fast or without paying attention to this (transient) symptom. Search our Youtube channel or Website for 'transient astigmatism'. This can easily be prevented or managed. (2) Some people report an increase in eye floaters when practicing active focus. In general floaters are considered harmless but a sudden increase in floaters should be evaluated by a medical trained professional, as they could be a sign of retinal detachment or other serious medical condition. Generally taking it easy, not over straining, practicing gently and with patience should help. (3) Headaches. You're taking on a very much unsanctioned self-experiment changing diopters. Anytime you overdo things or change too much or aren't educating yourself first, you may expose yourself to strain symptoms. You should be experiencing no pain, headaches, or discomfort if you do things correctly!