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!
Reversing Myopia: How Old Is Too Old?
So let's say you're 40 or 50 or even 80 years old and myopic, is it just too late for you? Can you not reverse your myopia, because, too old?Are you stuck with an ever reducing accommodation range, an ever decreasing small gap where you can see clearly, between your distance glasses and your reading glasses? Does your vision get squeezed, in a diopter vice, with multi focal lenses? Wait, wait... nerd moment:Luuuuke.Anyway. Your strange eye guru recently uploaded a quick video to the [...]
20/20 Gains: Mark Reduces From -2.50 To -1.50
Today let's look at an e-mail from Mark, who is getting well and nicely comfortable outside of the mainstream single prescription paradigm. Great to see people learning about their eyes, about optic, about myopia! Look at a sane and appropriate use of lenses here, as described by Mark: Jake, I'm writing to you to give you an overview of my progress (as it's exactly a year since I subscribed) and ask a couple of questions. I've realised, through your teachings [...]
Por Yong Ming, Singapore Ophthalmologist: “Glasses Don’t Cause Myopia”
Willful ignorance plus entitled arrogance = lots of myopia in Singapore.
Third Normalized Glasses!! (From -5.00)
Written By Despina Contributing Optometrist So I am on my third normalized glasses prescription now, after just over 3 months on the program! From my original contact lens prescription of -5.00D in the right eye and -5.50D in the left, I am now wearing -3.50D right and -4.00D left. Just the idea that I am into the mid-myope range is amazing for me, after x-years as a high myope. With the arrival of summer and the constant bright sunlight we [...]
50 Years Young, Making 20/20 GAINS: Shelly Goes -4.00 To -2.75!
Hey, guess what. Progress report time!One of the things that saves Jakey's sanity quite often, is the awesome, amazing, wonderful invention of automatic e-mail scheduling. I have no idea how I'd manage to poke you at the right time, check in, see how you're doing.And to tell you fun stories, of course. I tell you fun stories, and you might remember poor ole Jakey, opt to hit the reply button, and regale and old man with stories of your improving eyesight. [...]
(Quora) How Long Does It Take To Get Used To New Glasses?
It's Quora day.Yesterday I posted a video on YouTube, musing whether @endmyopia is "done". Done, as in project complete, Jake can go dedicate those three hours a day to other stuff. If you haven't watched that one yet, here:Give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, you know the drill.Today I stopped by Quora, and I think I might have answered my own question. Is @endmyopia done? I was hoping to say yes but apparently it's actually ...As long [...]