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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!
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 [...]
The Unstoppable Global Myopia Epidemic – Doubles Again
The largest study of childhood eye diseases ever undertaken in the U.S. confirms that the incidence of childhood myopia among American children has more than doubled over the last 50 years. The findings echo a troubling trend among adults and children in Asia, where 90 percent or more of the population have been diagnosed with myopia, up from 10 to 20 percent 60 years ago.The Multi-Ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study (MEPEDS), conducted by researchers and clinicians from the USC Eye [...]
Beware of the Gym
So there I was this morning, pounding away on the treadmill, staring at Euronews on the tv screen in front of me, going over the Back to 20/20 session I did yesterday in my mind, all about the importance of taking regular breaks from close-up focus. And without even realising it, I was doing it. Staring at that close-up screen. And so were about 80% of the others in the gym today. Absurd, isn't it, that even during exercise we are [...]