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!
End of 2014 Update
2014 is almost over, and the time is hopefully finding you with much better eyesight than when you first discovered this site. I'm glad to be looking back and finding that everything is still here and functioning! A few of the things worth noting:Course ParticipationWe had a pretty steady stream of new participants in the paid course this year. It hasn't quite managed to get the site to break even, but it's reasonably close. At this point without spending money [...]
Nate’s Progress: -6.75 to -3.25
Nate posts in the forum: A quick question about when to decrease normalized prescription. I started with a prescription of -6.75. I heard about myopia rehab at gettingstronger, and did it on my own for about 2 years. At the start of this year I had a trip to the optometrist, and was told that my fully corrected prescription was -4.75. I started the year with a normalized prescription of -4.25. This year I’ve slowly worked my way down to [...]
Preventing & Reversing Child Myopia: Practical Considerations
Nate writes in the forum:I need some help with my 9 year old son. He has been complaining about not being able to see the chalkboard in school for about 6 months. I initially had him tested, and he tested at -1 diopter. I tried to teach him about taking breaks, good distance when reading, good habits, etc-I think he did some of them. I also tried to teach him to “pull focus” in the distance. For the last month, [...]
Preventing Myopia: Fix The Eye Killing Accommodative Error
Jake Steiner here, bringing you some more eyesight basics that the mainstream prefers not to tell you about.---Here we will take a quick look at how the premise of accommodation, and more specifically accommodative error play a fundamental role in how your myopia develops. More importantly, we'll look at how science corroborates the need for specific glasses to be used during close-up, to reduce your risk of developing myopia. Alex is very much focused on the practical aspects of myopia [...]
Robin’s -4.00 to -2.75: Improving Your Eyesight For Free
Jake Steiner here, your temporary blog host. Everything is here in Alex' blog for the motivated reader, to improve their vision. You don't need to spend money on the paid course, you can easily dig through the forum and blog, and impressively enough, it really is all here. Props to Alex to spend a lifetime providing myopia rehab advice, retiring, and then building an amazing resource like this. More impressive even, if you ever met Alex. This guy has never [...]
Inge’s Mild Myopia: The Questionable Value Of A -2.00 Prescription
Overprescription, with any sort of serious medication, is generally something most medical practices avoid - for all the obvious reasons. This is unfortunately not the case in optometry. In optometry, prescriptions are made for the maximum possible degree of correction. It is certainly bad news for your long term vision health. Overprescription Is The Optometry StandardThere is a reason for this, which is that our eyes are not a static system. Our eyes are very complex, ready to adapt to many [...]