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!
How To Improve Night Vision (Advanced Topic)
Recovering healthy eyesight is all about moving backwards - from where you are now, to where you had initially started before that very first prescription at the optometrist.Remember, once you got that first prescription, your eyes kept getting worse.In the program, we have been working the exact reverse of what got your eyesight so poor in the first place - starting out, we remove the root cause of all myopia - close up strain.Once you have a clear sense for [...]
Anne: Disappointed, Frustrated, Angry
Anne writes in the forum:Hi everyone,I took my youngest son to see the ophthalmologist today and I am feeling so disappointed, frustrated and angry …. Let me first give you some background history:I joined the #endmyopia project program on March, 24th 2014 after my 2 youngest children (Robin,7 and Eline, 10) had been diagnosed with myopia. This made me really worry (it kept me awake at night) about their future eyesight. From my own childhood, I can clearly remember that, [...]
David’s Progress: -4.00 to -2.50
If there is one thing I am glad I did, it was to have started a support forum.More of the insights come from there, than most things I write here on the blog. If the Web Program is the brush and canvass, the support forum shows the paintings you create. David writes:Hey all,I started the program back in October and had been not using glasses for a bit before that, but wasn’t doing active focus or blur horizon work, till [...]
Contact Lenses For Computer Use: Tricks, Tips, Caveats
A recent post in the support forum reminded me of a trick I sometimes prescribe for heavy computer users (who happen to be in the one-on-one program). Since it makes sense to share this with everyone, let me give you a bit of the circumstances where this may make sense for you. This is a bit of an advanced subject - if you are new to this site, or just reading casually, this may not make as much sense to you! [...]
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 [...]