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!
Challenge Yourself (And Your Friends) To A Game Of Distance Vision
There is a problem with my old brain, and many years of doing myopia rehab. Or more accurately, there is a problem with this format of delivering eyesight health content to you - me writing at a screen, which impassively stares back at me. It is a very strange new way for someone like me, who is trained to work based on interaction and feedback. Even e-mails are challenging, because of the huge amount of time that passes between individual messages.You [...]
They Exist! Places In The World That Practice Myopia Prevention And Rehabilitation
We live in a a tiny bubble. I live in a tiny bubble. Though we do live in extraordinary times, where companies like Google expand our access to information in ways that were inconceivable just a decade ago. This is just the beginning of a larger access to knowledge. And it is still very limited when it comes to only locally accessible health related knowledge. You might still have to stumble across an individual in some small town somewhere in the [...]
Behind The Scenes: Why I’m Still Not Promoting The Program Significantly
Things have been a bit quiet on the blog front lately. I have been keeping track of the impact of paid advertising, especially in how it relates to e-mails and questions and the tone of the conversation. I have to admit that my weariness of the Internet hasn't been decreasing - while I think we have made some fantastic progress together, I have a difficult time shaking the belief that you as regular readers don't represent the general online audience.Let [...]
From The Course: Another Way To Gauge Close-Up Strain
For those of you who have already have a solid grasp on improving your eyesight, here is another strategy you can leverage to gauge your close up strain. This one assumes that you have a differential prescription, and ideally already have experience with the double vision distance for close-up.As we know, your cumulative maximum improvement potential comes from two things:1. Limiting close-up strain and ideally not have any ciliary muscle spasm at all.For the most part I suggest breaks in [...]
How To Choose a Differential Glasses Prescription If You Have High Astigmatism
There's a recent thread in the forum where I spent quite a bit of time answering some questions that tend to come up a lot. It's relevant for just about anyone starting out with healthier prescription management, and a good primer if you need some pointers. I really do need to get a good FAQ for this aspect. The blog format isn't entirely ideal to keep key topics from disappearing into the archives! Brandon asks in the forum: I just [...]
A Doctor’s Job: Gather Symptoms, Identify Illness, Match With Prescription or Procedure
This article, a bit off-topic, is to provide a bit of perspective on what a doctor (most doctors, certainly not all) does for you. Not intended as a judgment, I merely mean this to help you identify the potential flaws of the current treatment paradigm. Any time you can not find a solution to what ails you, looking at the bigger picture of the whole process may help with alternate solutions.Earlier today I received an e-mail, which is just like [...]