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!
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 [...]
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 [...]