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!
Boris: Started At -4.25, Reduced To -3.75 (in 40 days!)
Boris put the first 40 days of his vision improvement journey in BackTo20/20 to some excellent use. Rather than me spoil it for you, here is all that, straight from him:Nice! (original forum thread, here)And if you were to ask me whether to go to the optometrist after 60 days, I'd probably furrow various eyebrows and suggest you give it some time. I might say that the optometrist tests all go for worst case scenario, and if you haven't been [...]
The Brien Holden Institute Needs Your Help
Be positive, Jake. Say nice things to your darling readers, today. Deep breath! So there's the Brien Holden Instiute, which for those of you not keeping track is another one of these organizations who "develop innovative vision correction products for the treatment of the most common eye conditions." (according to their own Website)You see where this is going, I bet. Brien Holden's CEO, Kovin Naidoo recently expressed his concern (?) about the growing myopia epidemic:"Addressing a full theatre as keynote speaker [...]
Optometrist Experiences Myopia Reduction First Hand!
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristOK, so he could brush up on his spelling (that lady is right, but I was too polite, like most of you, to mention it). And he continuously insults my profession, despite swearing he'll change his habits. So why am I still not offended, and unsubscribing from this program? BECAUSE MY CENTIMETRES HAVE CHANGED!!!Yes, changed!! After just under a month of wearing my normalized prescription, my cm have increased by 2cm in each eye!!! And I am thrilled!!! [...]
(Pro Topic) Are You Getting Double Vision With Reduced Diopters?
This, absolutely a pro topic. If you're a casual reader, skip this one!As you start practicing active focus with reduced diopters, you realize that your environment doesn't fade straight to blur, from clear vision. Instead there is an intermittent layer of double vision, almost as though your eyes are trying to hang on to the clear image, and slowly losing the battle over to blur. We talk about the causes of this double vision experience quite a bit here in the [...]
Neurosurgeon And Also A Completely Lunatic
It's Sunday. Let's start it off with this juicy quote:Anything with excessive blue light spikes increases the color temperature of the light source. This means contacts, sunglasses, and glasses are additive to this effect because they cut UV sources to the retina. These behaviors combined with these specific types of bulbs are extinguishing our biologic light in our cells. Some days the blog just writes itself.What did you think after reading that? Did you arch your eyebrows, cup your chin, and [...]
Turn Any Writing Into Your Own Impromptu Eyechart
Val posts her latest status update in the forum (-8.50 to -.7.75, pretty good!), and with it, some awesome MacGyver math. Instead of putting up an eye chart like basic guru Jake usually suggests, Val turns any outdoor writing into her own personal Snellen servant. Val's math post excerpt:The formula: Font height / distance to sign *180/pi*60 = arc minutes Handy trick, just paste the whole thing into the Google search box to get the calculation result. If you can get to [...]