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!
Can Crooked Glasses Make Your Eyesight Worse?
In the course we talk about prescription use in a number of installments. I also have an entire category of paid support that includes prescription suggestions. The reason for this is of course that prescriptions significantly affect your eyesight health.As you likely already know from reading the myopia basics, all of your myopia past the first -1.50 diopters is likely caused by nothing other than your prescription glasses. Glasses seriously affect your eyesight!At the same time, I often make your [...]
Improve Your Eyes With This Fun Maze Game
I always refer to using letters and text in general, when working on pushing or pulling focus. Unlike other objects, text has the significant benefit of giving you feedback - if you don't see a tree leaf, you won't know it. But if you can't read half of the letters in a word, you surely do! This is why you want to use writing as a reference tool for your focus work, a ubiquitous feature both near and far, most [...]
+0.50? -0.50? Rene’s Curious Astigmatism Correction Diagnosis
I hadn't planned on writing today, but a post by Rene in the forum warrants a quick look:cm measurements: RE: 21,0 cm LE: 19,0 cmSnellen 20/20: RE: -4,75 LE: -5,25 Astigmatism test: RE: All lines look nearly the same. LE: 0°/10° lines look bold and grey. 90° line looks thin and black.Eye examination, optic shop A: RE: -5,50 +0,50 85° LE: -6,00 +0,5 90°Eye examination, optic shop B: RE: -5.00 -0,50 160° LE: -6,00 – 0,50 11°These astigmatism corrections can’t be right. With my trial lens set I [...]
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, [...]
