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!
The Program And High Myopia: Suggestions
A new program participant writes:I recently joined your program to improve my eyesight and most importantly, lessen the risk of retina issues. My current glasses are L -13.25 and R -15. I wear contacts most of the time, L-11.5, R -12. Doing close up work with +1 reading glasses. Is there any potential harm to the high myope's retina from anything in the program ?"Since my response is appropriate for all high myopia cases, I copied it from my e-mailed [...]
A Look At Optometrist Overprescription
As we often discuss here in the blog, overprescription for the absolute maximum correction is standard practice among optometrists. This leads to progressive myopia that is primarily lens-induced, and could absolutely be avoided. If prescription practices weren't as they are today, very few people would use more than a -1.50 prescription lens.Think about this - of the over 2 billion (!) myopes today, the vast majority are lens-induced myopes. This is a condition entirely created by the prescription - not [...]
Behind The Scenes: Subscription System Improvements
Lots of work has been going into the new visitor aspects of the #endmyopia site, lately:We have a much more detailed introduction to the myopia subject on the home page. I have also been updating the free course (though it still needs a few more iterations), and added visibility to it so new visitors would actually find it. I added a 14 installment free trial of the full course. We are also doing a lot more paid advertising to draw [...]
Nadim’s 3 Month Progress: Dropped Prescription to -8.00 from -9.75
Nadim writes in the forum:Hi everyone!I discovered the #endmyopia website late last year. I spent a lot of time reading the content. I was familiar with most of the concepts here from previous attempts at improving my eyesight with other methods.I had tried a few things in the past (including Bates Method) with no measurable success. My myopia slowly progressed, until I was approximately 21-year-old, when it settled at 9.75(OS) 11.25(OD). I’m now 30, and since then, there’s only been [...]
Is Print Pushing The Best Way To Improve Your Eyesight?
Interestingly, I had three separate e-mails yesterday, asking whether "print pushing" is an effective way to improve eyesight. Something must be in the air, that this question comes up three times in one day.I think the term itself might have been inspired by Todd Becker.Todd is a quite brilliant guy, and I much enjoy his site and contributions to eyesight health. Let's take a look at print pushing, or as I call it - pushing focus, and how it relates to [...]
Myopia Reversal: A Pathologists Perspective
Nathan writes:I am a pathologist-which means that my medical specialty is in the disease process. I spend a lot of time thinking about health and disease in the body.The body responds to stress. All biological systems do. This is a general biological principle. There are constant feedback sensors and mechanisms all over the body which constantly monitor the body’s status and make adjustments.While I don’t know the exact enzymes involved in eyeball shortening, I can identify a universal biological principle.If [...]