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!
Can You Prevent Or Treat Presbyopia?
Presbyopia is another way our bodies like to rub it in that we don't stay young forever:Presbyopia is the irreversible loss of the accommodative ability of the eye that occurs due to aging. Accommodation refers to the ability of the eye to increase its refractive power of the crystalline lens in order to focus near objects on the retina.[1] The most significant decrease in accommodative power occurs in between the ages of 20 and 50. In the first two decades of [...]
Eye Doctors Who Endorse & Support Vision Rehabilitation (-3.25 Update)
Eli writes: I’m happy to report that I went to the eye doctor 2 days ago and had a complete eye exam (dilation and all). I was able to read 20/15 (both eyes, slightly straining with left) with my -7.50 contacts (which is a whole .50 less than my previous eye doctor insisted I needed). I proceeded to tell him about the vision rehab that I am working on and to my shock he has said that he seen people be [...]
The Global Myopia Epidemic: A 100 Billion Dollar Profit Motive
Lucy recently published an excellent article on the explosion of statin use. The problem is endemic of many areas of Western medicine where chronic rather than acute symptoms are to be dealt with. Acute symptoms are increasingly effectively resolved, while chronic ailments are simply medicated with very questionable long term results.One such area, widely ignored when it comes to massive health epidemics of recent times, is myopia. Many people don't even know the term, which simply refers to shortsightedness of the [...]
Intermittent Fasting: A Tool To Fix Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) and Improve Eyesight?
Here, a quick visit into my journey of breaking through vision improvement plateaus. If you get stuck and aren't getting the improvements you are looking for lately, this is the article for you.---If you spent most of your life behind glasses and contact lenses, discovering the vision improvement methods on this site can be a revelation. You end up learning a lot, and rediscovering healthy eyesight in the process.In fact, myopia rehab can be quite pleasant with the right guide.This short [...]
Johnny: Working Out Double Vision & Astigmatism Reduction
Johnny writes in the forum, volunteering time to update us about his challenges with double vision, too much prescription reduction, and his astigmatism correction. If you have astigmatism, or double vision experiences, this is well worth the read: Hi everyone Time for an update! There’s been a lot going on so this might be a long post… Its been an interesting (and tough!) couple of months. I have again learnt a lot and I hope in sharing my experiences with [...]
Trouble Finding Active Focus? It Could Be Your Screen.
Hi everybody, Neha here. Today is my first day officially keeping an eye on your questions in the forum. There is a bit of a theme I noticed, so here is a quick tip if you too are having trouble with your first active focus experiences. --- First, as Alex mentions often, it can take time to find active focus. Don't rush it, it will come to you as long as you make the effort with a good blur distance. [...]