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!
Shannon’s Progress: After 5 Weeks Reduced To -6.00
Shannon posts her latest update in the forum:After 5 weeks at -6.5, I was feeling everything was quite clear. I went to my dad’s farm, and looked around and the leaves in the trees looked clearer than I had seen in the last couple of years with my full prescription. Everything is looking more beautiful than ever before. This weekend, on my 5 week mark of my first prescription decrease, I have switched to a -6.0. I am feeling a lot [...]
William’s Progress: -5.00 to -3.50
William posts his progress in the forum:Starting point:Glasses: (never wore)Right: -5.00/-0.25/30Left: -5.75/-0.5/177Contacts:Right -5.00Left -5.25I started by wearing a +2.5 reader over my contacts, and very rapidly I was able to drop my contact scrip.Today:Contacts:Right: -3.50Left: -4.0020/20 each eye inside, 20/15 or better both eyes open.I’m wearing a +1.25 reader over those for any close work.Couple of observations/questions:1. Left eye only double vision on Snellen: with both eyes open, things work great, but when I cover my right eye, the left [...]
Your Eyes Are Direct Access To Your Brain: Blue Light Reverses Amnesia
From TheVerge:Mice with amnesia could recall specific training after having their memories jogged by blue lights — the first time researchers have been able to suppress a memory and then restore it in an animal. And while that technical feat is impressive, what's more important is what the study in Science suggests: in some cases, memories that are lost due to brain trauma may still be present in the human brain.Amnesia comes in many forms. In some cases, people have trouble forming memories after [...]
Seeing Better With Contact Lenses vs. Glasses
There is a whole discussion going on here, about why you might see better with contact lenses than you do with glasses. Short answer, if you have high myopia, and don't have any problems with dry eyes, contact lenses might be for you. The rest of this is for those of you who are already in the whole program and familiar with normalized glasses and differential glasses prescriptions. Let's address the contact lens vs. glasses vision question for close-up. Here's [...]
Steve (-7.50) Beats Myopia: Optometrist Confirms ~1 Diopter Improvement
The hardest test of your vision improvement, is visiting the optometrist. Once you learn how to measure your own eyes, you realize just how much that optometrist exam room stacks the deck against your eyes. The dark room, the poor quality, narrow spectrum lighting, the possibly unevenly lit chart. The clicking of lenses, of which you aren't told the strength, and the disembodied voice, forever asking "better now, or ... now". It's an eye inquisition. It's no fair trial. [...]
Behind The Scenes: Jake?! What Happened To The Site!
It's official. The dogs have been let off the leash. Hounds, is it? One of these days we'll have to get a bit more autobiographical to help you make sense of what madman is at the wheel here. Why Alex insisted that I take over this site and all of the associated headaches. There was a rather nice list of proper optometrists who offered Alex good money, but he insisted that I do it. Because Alex is sneaky. Or [...]