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!
Forbes: Contact Lens Stock Tearing Up The Charts
Good news, Jake. That's what they keep telling me. Give them some good news.I try to do so as much as possible, by providing how-to's on reversing your myopia. But myopia itself is difficult for me to present in a positive light. You know why? Because I'm an amateur. Go ahead, shake your head at me. Let's hand it over to Forbes Magazine to teach us how to put a positive spin on the most destructive eyesight illness in all [...]
The Intersection Of Blur & Double Vision
There comes a point when you can reduce your differential (up-close reading) prescription more than you would think. Read on for the 'how to'.---Alex and I agree on a lot of things. There are fundamental truths that simply apply to all, including blur horizon, active focus, and the whole subject of double vision covered in the 60's installments of Alex' course.It plainly makes sense to follow the pace of the guided course since it incorporates all the necessary aspects of [...]
How Do You Get 20/20 Eyesight?
Let's start this with some perspective: 20/20 eyesight doesn't exist. Rather, it is just a vague approximation of visual acuity. It can be one thing or quite another, depending on who you ask, and how your optometrist measures. Stick around for a moment, while we look at what 20/20 means, and why you don't need to worry about it ... and what you want to focus on, instead.---Most people who first come to visit my office are looking to 20/20 [...]
Prescriptions Like Steroids – How Your Glasses Might Give You Unnatural Vision
Your optometrist is supposed to correct your vision deficiency. The goal should be for you to be able to see clearly at a distance. But how much correction are you actually given? And what does it do to you eyesight?---The optometry theory is that you should be able to see clearly at any distance. If your eyes work as they should, objects should just look smaller at greater distances, but never blurred. When you go to get an eye exam, [...]
Guided Meditation For Close-Up Eye Strain Relief
Too much close-up is the root of all myopia troubles. Unfortunately most of us need lots of close-up time for our daily lives. Less eye strain alone won't fix myopia, but it will help prevent worsening eyesight (and help you get effective rehab results).We make lots of recommendations here to deal with close-up strain.#1 is to never wear your distance vision glasses while working up-close. If you can't see your screen without glasses, a good differential prescription is going to help [...]
Your Health vs. Their Profit: HBO Talks About The Billion Dollar Prescription Scam
HBO's "Last Week Tonight": Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars a year, marketing to doctors. Drugs are prescribed for unrelated symptoms. Doctors are heavily incentivized to write more prescriptions.As you read this article and watch the HBO video, consider: have you ever gone to the optometrist and not been sold prescribed something? How about that mantra of "it's genetic, there is no cure"?---If you are a long time reader of this site and have been rehabilitating your vision, you undoubtedly [...]