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!
Living With Blinders: No Peripheral Vision Killing Your Eyes?
We talk about peripheral vision every so often, here in the blog.Here's a quick and possibly startling fact: You don't use your peripheral vision, when you're staring at screens. You use only about 3% of your retinal surface, in fact. Is this something you should worry about?Some clinical science suggests that you may in fact become myopic, because you're not using your peripheral vision. More on that in a moment.Peripheral vision falls into the wider category of vision health, and a [...]
Kristina Did It! (18 Year Old High School Student Reverses Myopia)
You want to know what tangible success looks like? How about six months to reduce a full diopter in lens prescriptions? Big deal, you think. You show us these stories all the time, Jake. But this one is Kristina, who is an 18 year old high school student. And before anyone gets their huff-pants on about how age doesn't matter, let me just interrupt that right now. We've actually got a strict minimum age of 25 for BackTo20/20, exactly [...]
Is Going Outside The “Cure” For Myopia?
Go outside, don't end up with glasses. Or so some will tell you. Any truth to this?There was quite a bit of media coverage recently, about another circle jerk of a poorly designed study, taken out of reasonable context, turned into the soundbite of "go outside, don't need glasses"."There were some studies suggesting the protective effect of outdoor time in the development of myopia, but most of this evidence is from cross-sectional studies (survey) data that suggest 'association' instead of [...]
Session Updates, New Videos, & Audio Tracks!
Today, a BackTo20/20 update post (along with the latest Youtube upload for blog-only participants). You know what's not been getting as much love as it definitely should be?BackTo20/20. Missing the love. The functional core that holds this whole site together, a wee bit neglected. The cutting edge, structured, experimental process to naturally improve your eyesight, something not being done anywhere else, getting the scraps of Jake-attention. A global myopia epidemic, and this being the only true incubator for a meaningful solution that's [...]
Time to say Goodbye?
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristAs I keep saying, I love my contact lenses. They have served me well for over 30 years now. All types. I started with hard lenses, that's how desperate I was to be rid of glasses, the permanent redness winning hands down. I then progressed to gas permeables, and then, comfort at last with soft and disposable lenses. They have seen me through life until middle age quite successfully with no major hiccups or interesting stories.Recently, though, [...]
(-3.25) Zero Dollars Spent, Many 20/20 Gains Made
Serious vision improvement stories. You don't want to miss out on these! In this post we'll focus only on ones that are "blog readers only", ie. students who use entirely just the free materials, and none of the BackTo20/20 participants who pay for a structured approach (which is still the single best thing out there in terms of natural myopia reversal). So let's look at a few diopters of entirely free 20/20 gains, as told by readers themselves. First up, Andrew. Andrew, who [...]
