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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!

Contrast Sensitivity

Written By DespinaContributing OptometristIf you have been doing the program for a while now you will be familiar with the Snellen letter chart and your visual acuities, and the significance of measuring your visual acuity in different ambient lighting conditions. You will have practiced active focus at different times of day, and noticed the vast effect that ambient lighting has on your vision and focusing ability.The Snellen chart was developed by the Dutchman, Dr Herman Snellen, in 1862, primarily for [...]

By |Eyesight Health: Evidence Based Science, Nearsighted: How To's|
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Matthew: More Than About Eyesight

Matthew posts in the forum:For me, and for many us, myopia recovery is about much more than eyesight. It began for me as a kid, when I absolutely did NOT want to get glasses. Eventually I accepted them because I didn’t know that I had a choice. The thought occurred to me every year for a while, when the eye doc told me that I need a stronger prescription, that there might be some connection between the stronger prescription and the [...]

By |Vision Health|
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Pro Topic: Another Active Focus Post

Pro topic.  Blog visitor noobs, don't email me asking me why you can't find active focus.  Read!  ;) Active focus is a very key premise of our method of natural myopia reversal. You go from passively seeing your world, the way high prescription glasses will force you to do, to being actively engaged in the quality of your eyesight. Sounds fluffy unicorns, right? Not really.  Some will have you believe that making zero effort is just fine for human biology, but [...]

By |Active Focus, Nearsighted: How To's|
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I’ve Got The Worst Focusing Muscle Spasm

A quick cautionary tale today, about taking care of your eyes. Yesterday morning I got on the subway in Bangkok, and then the train, and then sat in the airport, and then on a plane.  I tried to stick with podcasts for all this sitting around, but phone close-up did accumulate.  Phone close-up is especially no good, since you tend to hold a phone way closer than the distance you'd use with your computer screen. Jakey also didn't use plus [...]

By |Active Focus, Vision Health|
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Off Topic: Jake Stuffs Update

If you follow my semi-secret Instagram, or the Twitter bits, you already know that today is travel day.  Not travel related to @endmyopia, rather still working out the sharp left turn in life that has been the unplanned advent of the little boy.  Before all this, the general life parameters were to slowly migrate across the planet (I don't like to travel per se, never been a fan of roundtrip tickets).  Six months here, a few weeks there, a couple years somewhere else.  For [...]

By |News|
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Omar: Reduced From -1.00 To -0.25 (In Six Months!)

You know what is amazing? We could literally do only eyesight improvement stories, and cover every single day of the blog.  We're actually pretty close to where we could do only eyesight improvement stories from just blog readers (not even students), and cover every single day. That's huge.  Oh boy, I can't resist right now ... Right?! Anyway.  This one is interesting because it's low myopia, which really takes getting everything right, not being torn by doubts of what's possible, and taking [...]

By |Back To 20/20, Just With Blog, Low Myopia, Low Myopia (2 Diopters & Less), Student Reviews|
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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!