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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!
Video Comparison: Lens Coatings
Yes, we're at it again. My ridiculous face, on hackishly produced YouTube videos. If you're among the small minority who watches these thing, this one's for you. This one is all about anti reflective lens coatings. Need them? Don't need them? See for yourself! This is a bit of a follow-up to the lens-coatings post from yesterday. Do click that "like" button! I keep doing these videos believing that one day, in the far distant future, they'll actually be good. [...]
$5 Anti-Reflective Coatings & 4 Diopter Improvement
Craig just sent me this e-mail: Hi Jake, This article inspired me to get off my butt to get the anti-reflective coatings. I got the new lenses yesterday and have been walking around in amazement.. I had tried anti-reflective coatings when they first came out (many years ago) and didn't care for them. Apparently, they've improved since then or I'm looking at them differently. In any case, they make a huge difference. Where I really find value is when driving. [...]
First Time I Saw Perfectly Clear (No Glasses)
I remember the moment vividly. A stunning, jarring moment, of truly perfect vision. It's one of those things you won't forget as long as you live, seeing clearly without glasses for the first time. I was riding my motorbike through rush hour traffic, 11AM on a nice, sunny day. I'd been wearing a -1 diopter lens for the past 4 months. I was still a total noobie in the scheme of things. It took me a very long time to [...]
What’s First? Equalize Or Reduce Spherical
Pro topic. Best used after some BackTo20/20 or otherwise advanced experience. There is a question that will be floating around this sphere, perhaps many years from now, after the whole idea of holistic myopia control becomes more mainstream. That question will be, whether to equalize or reduce your spherical correction first, when you start on the road to improving your eyesight using lenses to create positive stimulus. You can't do everything at once, you have to either reduce spherical, or [...]
Pro Tip: 1.5 Diopter Improved Night Time Vision
Winter is coming. It's going to be dark early and cold to go outside (unless you wisely live in the tropics), and you won't be making nearly as much progress you might the rest of the year. But where progress appears to be temporarily slowed, you can still do a lot to get a head start on spring, now. In BackTo20/20 we talk a lot about individual strategies to get stimulus and improve your focus. Here's one of the strategies [...]
Did Osteopathy Fix My 10-Year Migraine?
Massively off-topic today, on the curious (maybe) effects of osteopathy. I've been having neck pain, off and on, for the past ten years. We're talking about the sort of neck pain that turns into a tension headache, where you find yourself laying on the ground, unable to find any position that isn't Chinese-water-torture painful. Two days, three days, of just hoping for a lesser headache. It's not my style to complain (aside from my sister - and now you, nobody [...]