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!
Jake, Its-All-Free Hippie Eyeguru (On Quora)
I blame you guys for this. You keep encouraging me. I make a terrifying video on YouTube, and you say, hey Jake. That's an awesome video. Just don't say it sucks, ok?. Say it's awesome and the next video will be even more awesome. Which truly, I appreciate. The encouragement and feedback really matters when you do all this stuff alone, by yourself, feeling slightly unnerved about being judged by all of the Internet. All you get is scrolling numbers and [...]
A Fun Way To Quantify Overprescription For Yourself
Kellee posts an interesting experiment in the forum. As a bit of background on this, she went to the optometrist, who gave her a much higher prescription than her own centimeter measurements would suggest. Confused about this, she went home and did this:Neat, right?You can just convert the optometrist prescription numbers back to centimeters, and then see how clearly you can see at that exact distance.Everything is pin sharp, no matter the ambient lighting? Stays sharp even if you move [...]
Some Awe Inspiring 20/20 Stories (-6.00, No Glasses, More)
Why the selfie post title image, Jake? Your face isn't exactly what anybody is going to want to look at. I'll tell you why. It's Saturday afternoon. Instead of frolicking at the strip club or spending time with the family, I'm writing you blog posts and answering countless questions. This is what I look like, making sure you're taken care of. My e-mail is full, every single day, with awesome improvement stories. Sometimes I look at my e-mail and I [...]
Myopia Control: Are Optometrists Actually The Right Choice?
Myopia control is a tiny, tiny niche. Tiny to a degree that @endmyopia basically rules the whole lot of it, if we're going to look at cumulative amount of diopters reversed. That's the only metric that matters. And no question, we get results, where most others are continuing to grasp at straws. But ... there's a but, more on that in a moment.Meanwhile, are we too humble? It's actually true. Over the years I've met, talked to, conspired with, argued theories with most [...]
Low Light Myopia Explained
They tell me that it hasn't been this cold and rainy in Hong Kong in 60 years. I bought a down jacket and been hiding indoors as much as possible. Rain is beating on my hotel room windows, and I definitively stopped talking big talk about how much I miss winter in Europe. Anyway ... Here's a quick video on what happens to your ciliary muscle once light diminishes. Obviously it's not actually the muscle making the decision to [...]
Contact Lens & Glasses Prescription – Do They Correspond?
"In every day terms, if you wear more prescription than necessary, you might be increasing your myopia"I quote Jake from session 7 of Backto20/20. I have been reading cases from the forum over the past couple of days and it struck me that many of you young contact lens wearers are over-corrected. ie your contact lens prescription is too strong in relation to your glasses prescription. It has not been sufficiently reduced. As you probably [...]