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!
The Ciliary Pop: A Simple Trick For Healthy Eyes
You probably already know all about focusing muscle spasms. That spasm, the beginning of all myopia. The "pseudo" myopia, that first landed you in the optometrist's exam room chair. That muscle spasm, that got you into glasses. If you're working on getting your eyes back to healthy, you're spending a fair amount of your better habits on reducing close-up strain, and the focusing muscle (ciliary) spasm. Though unfortunately you won't be completely avoiding your eye's focusing muscle locking up in close-up [...]
We’re Coming, Optometry. 2 Weeks, 1,000 Followers
Jakey's no health blogger. You don't need me to be famous. I wouldn't look good in a beard anyway, and my Indian accent is pretty awkward. What's the goal of all this work, of #endmyopia, if not beards and Indian accents? Here's a possible mission statement: We want an easily discoverable truth, by anyone afflicted by poor eyesight, that myopia isn't an illness. And there is an actual plan to get there. Central to this plan, is you. You need to enjoy better eyesight, first [...]
5 Billion Myopic People By 2050
This, from Medical Daily: By 2050, an increase in myopia, or nearsightedness, may reach epidemic proportions, potentially blinding up to one billion people worldwide. After examining studies of trendssurrounding myopia globally, researchers at the Brien Holden Vision Institute are encouraging us to act now to prevent widespread vision loss from becoming a reality. The researchers have also found that half the world’s population, or an estimated five billion people, will likely be myopic by 2050, with one-fifth falling into the high myopic category, meaning they are at [...]
Overcoming Improvement Plateaus
One of the great benefits of the structured approach of BackTo20/20 is the built-in "plateau prevention". With data from thousands of recovering myopes over quite a few years, and having a consistent process for everyone made it possible to predict plateau risks. This means that if you are making consistent improvements and are following the sessions correctly, your odds of long plateaus is greatly reduced. Here are some of Jon's observations on the subject, in a recent forum thread: I’ve [...]
Night Blindness: The Half Diopter Rule
Night blindness as a symptom can have several causes. Since we deal with myopia here, what we talk about usually goes back to the subject of how well you can see. Often times new students are confused about the impact of light on their eyesight. Note that there are several other causes of what's described as "night blindness", which we aren't discussing in this article. With an otherwise healthy eye, you still will notice that you can see notably less [...]
Jon’s Progress Update (-6.25)
Jon posts a brilliant rehab progress update in the forum: I find students who track their progress methodically, almost always do very well with the program. More of Jon's update: Even with graphs! (Left side is the second number of 20/*) And here is the updated (longer) projection: Nice work, Jon. We'll have to see if he might be inclined to share his brilliant Excel setup with us, it looks like a great progress tracker. Lots more good stuff in the [...]