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!
A Zillion Requests For Free Consults
A lot of e-mails every day, from blog readers. Always nice to read encouraging progress reports and the blog being put to good use. Here's Marjeta: Pretty well done! Note that I can't possibly provide case specific suggestions to non-students. It always turns into an endless e-mail circus, I end up explaining half of what's in the BackTo20/20 sessions (and in the blog, for grrr-sakes) anyway. And for whatever reason, the non-supporting contingent is always least stingy with my time. [...]
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Take a look at this brief abstract of a monkey myopia study published in 2013 in Investigative Ophthalmology: Negative lens-induced myopia in infant monkeys: effects of high ambient lighting. Smith EL 3rd1, Hung LF, Arumugam B, Huang J. Author information Abstract PURPOSE: To determine whether high light levels, which have a protective effect against form-deprivation myopia, also retard the development of lens-induced myopia in primates. METHODS: Hyperopic defocus was imposed on 27 monkeys by securing -3 diopter (D) lenses in [...]
Off-Topic: A Big Thank You, Osteopathy, Malaysia, & The Osmo
Above: A restaurant on a boat, in Laos. Great fish lunch spot! --- I've been meaning to post an official thank you, to all you darling kittehs. For why? One, for being so supportive and positive throughout all of everything here. BackTo20/20 and some of you running into the session loading bug. The never-ending eccentricities of our payment solutions, first forever being PayPal only, and then the newer one having various little bugs. And of course the very limited invites [...]
Sticky Note: Timing Diopter Equalizing
Today, not so much a casual reader post (apologies!). I need to put this one somewhere though, so it's easy to find and I can refer back to it when students ask about equalizing prescriptions. Equalizing: Reducing the difference between left and right eye diopters. Goal: Reducing prescription complexity. Benefit: Far easier transition between lenses and no lenses. Once fully equalized the only difference between corrected and natural vision is one focal plane for both eyes. Happier visual cortex, better [...]
Michael (-6.50): Optometrist Confirms 1 Diopter Improvement!
Michael posts this update in the forum: Well done! You notice that Michael says, "on the one hand". There's the other hand, which turns into a bit of a discussion about very small astigmatism corrections, and various sorts of optometrists, and things worth reading (if you're a participant, here's the whole thread). That part, another topic for another blog-day. I'm glad to see the many positive notes on my attempts at being gentle, warm 'n fuzzy. It works reasonably well [...]
What Do You Use Your Eyes For?
Above: Monk in Cambodia. I'd pulled over for shelter from the rain, and there he was. --- You ever notice how none of your friends or family really cares, when you tell them that myopia is reversible? Does it make you a bit crazy that nobody shares your enthusiasm? If so, this is for you. Otherwise, it's entirely tl:dr (too long didn't read). I'll shed some light on some ways of thinking, as well as what does potentially serve as [...]
