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!
Alex’ Secrets: My Favorite Kind Of Glasses Frames
This is not a serious topic, rather just some shopping fun for you to consider - maybe while pushing a bit of focus, while browsing. I get asked the question frequently, and sometimes it makes me wish I was in the vision retail business. The profit margins on frames are incredible (or terrible, if you are the consumer), and all the options are staggering. The single most budget friendly way is probably to buy glasses online. But over the long [...]
Reader Questions: Plus Lens Therapy
Kevin writes: Hi Dr #endmyopia, your website emphasizes active focus/focus pulling (preferably outside). and also working at the blur horizon with a differential prescription. But i am surprised that you did not focus specifically on print pushing with plus lenses . Do you think that active print pushing (with blinking, eye movements to try to clear the image) for few hours a day would yield, say a +0.5D/year? That is a great question. Myopia rehabilitation is still a tiny speck [...]
Reader Questions: 20/20, Then What’s Next?
Shawn sends an e-mail, asking: So what happens when I get through 12-16 months of your program. I get to 20/20, then what's next? Like does my vision stay there? Does it need maintenance? I'm 22, would vision go back to -2.5 sometime later in my life? How sustainable would my 20/20 vision at the end of this process be? And is 20/20 what I see now through my glasses? This reminds me of the missing FAQ on the site, [...]
Improve Eyesight: 20/40 to 20/15 in 3 Months
On the subject of how to improve eyesight, I recently received this e-mail from Kevin, a reader of the site:Hi Alex, I know you are busy so i try to keep this short. My father had a -1/-0.75 his v/a was 20/40 3 months ago. his vision now is 20/20-20/15. All he did was read the smallest letters on the snellen for several hours a day UNTIL his eyes hurt (using active focus). I tried this and it seemed to [...]
New Rules: Forum Membership
So far there has been no firm rule on who can get onto the forum to contribute, ask questions, and to get support. The problem with non-participant forum members is that many questions that come up from them, are answered in much detail in the paid program (as well as the blog and forum). Of course, I did not want to require money, for support. So that bit of a conundrum has just been left open. But now, I have [...]
The Swirling Myths Around Alex
I don't know what it is exactly, and perhaps it's just that time of the year. While many months may go by, and thousands of e-mails with questions specific to myopia, suddenly now I get messages of an entirely different nature. Messages musing about the scheme to accumulate great wealth from this program. Fears, that the paid program must a trap, dragging the unsuspecting participant deep into the lair of never ending installments Queries about me, an international (and [...]