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!
Why do Singaporean kids have eye sight problems that are 3-4x the world average?
This question, recently on Quora. Here's my response:I can speak with some authority on this topic, having reversed my own -5.00 diopters of myopia. I also have thousands of students working on controlling their own myopia, including a number of Sinagporeans who successfully stopped their myopia progression and even reversed it (glad to introduce you, if you like for some first hand insights). It may sound far fetched at first, but if you're willing to look at science and ignore retail [...]
Eureka!
Very excited this morning. Because yesterday, I found it! Yes, I found active focus! And it wasn't actually that difficult. I expected to be that one person that can't find it. I must have read the session on it about 10 times, until it sank in, but that's ok, it's a totally new concept for me too. We are after all making our eyes, and those poor ciliary muscles, work in a way they have never worked before. But it [...]
Talk In The Park: -1.50 To 20/20
Just arrived in Tokyo, exhausted today! If you're up for a bit of video, here are some musings about my final journey out of myopia.Remember to give it a thumbs if you like it.Cheers,-Jake
Pros & Cons: Contact Lenses For Computer Use
We talk about this every once in a while. Should you use contact lenses while in front of the computer? There's no one answer to work for everybody.If you are a low myope, and spend all day in front of a computer, it's a no-brainer. Glasses, not contact lenses. The whole benefit of contact lenses, having a wider field of view, completely unused during close-up. The other reason to wear contact lenses, to have more freedom in various not-glasses-friendly situations, [...]
Ocular Dominance: Your Dominant Eye & Haphazard Lens Prescriptions
Jakey needs a deep breath before starting on topics like ocular dominance.We're friendly to mainstream optometry. Om, shanti, ommm. Natural myopia control, it's just another way to look at myopia. There's nothing wrong with cranking that phoropter like it's the wheel at the titanic, giving everybody every last ounce of mad crazy sharpness. Nothing wrong with it at all. It's just ... old school. The ideals from days long past. Hey if you're into that, old school, that's totally cool. [...]
Optometrist Update: Second Week Into BackTo20/20
I've been a bit quiet on the blog this week, I know, and it's only my second week in. I've been busy. Busy reading and re-reading the sessions, measuring centimeters, checking my vision in various lighting conditions, measuring my near working distances, and checking my distance prescription. Yes, I do do my own eye-tests, that way I only have myself to blame. Finally, I found my differential prescription, and I'm not going to lie, that part was indeed tricky, as I [...]