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!
20/20 at -2.50: Paul’s Five Week Progress Report
Improving your vision - almost always a question of how much effort you are willing to put in for the first month or two. With that being the case, it is encouraging to look at Paul's figures for exactly how much he has improved in his first five weeks:I’ve been using my first Normalized prescription now for 5 weeks. Haven’t touched my old full prescription glasses in all that time!For reference, my old prescription was:OD -3.25, -0.75 Cyl, 180 AxOS [...]
Stuck With Your Close-Up Distance? Use This Focusing Trick
Advanced subject - below will make most sense if you already experienced improvements in your eyesight.---Everything we discuss here about improving vision goes back to just two basic principles: 1) Reducing strain and 2) creating positive stimulus.Much of the challenge of applying these two simple ideas is in the detail.Remember that (almost) everything that happens with your vision is ultimately up to your brain, the visual cortex in particular. So when you push focus or adjust prescriptions or do anything at [...]
-6.75 D to -4.75 D: A Pathologists Experience With Improving Eyesight
Here, a guest post from Nathan (who you might know from occasional forum posts). I had asked him to write something for you, since his vocation is particularly well suited to the topic of myopia rehabilitation. Nathan is a pathologist, so he is used to applying knowledge of the human body to logically analyzing the subjects we look at here in the blog (and the course, obviously). --- First, I’d like to thank Jake for the opportunity to [...]
Unlock A Hidden One Diopter Margin In Your Vision
This is an advanced topic, suitable for those who already did the full Vision Improvement Course and made it specifically to a consistent double vision experience. ---If your normalized prescription gets you to 20/30 or 20/40 on the Snellen, and you frequently work to the double vision distance up-close, you probably have more margin in your vision than you might be aware of. To see if that is the case, and to leverage that hidden diopter, here is a good [...]
UK’s Biggest Parenting Site Wants Money To Tell Parents About Child Health Risks
Mumsnet is the UK's biggest parenting site, blog network, and forum. Hundreds of thousands of parents count on Mumsnet for advice and guidance. What parents don't know: all that advice and guidance is for sale.---Yes, mumsnet told us that they would let us talk about myopia, if we paid them 25,000 pounds per week for the privilege. If UK parents want their children not to become myopic, we'd have to buy in to tell the story. Same as a lens manufacturer [...]
How To: Getting A Test Lens Kit
The most reliable, and ultimately decisive tool used at the optometrist, is a test lens kit and eye chart. Sure, there is the autorefractor and various other options but ultimately you always end up in front of test lenses, and an eye chart. We talk about measurements a lot, here, and I offer a number of tools to measure myopia for yourself. These options are as good or better than what you get at the optic shop, for a number [...]