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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!
Interview Series: Todd Becker
Here is the first of the interview series, with Todd Becker, from GettingStronger.org. From the author page: Todd Becker is a freelance blogger based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives with his wife and two children. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and Philosophy from Stanford University and Brown University. Todd currently works as a staff scientist for a biotechnology company in Palo Alto, where he leads project teams and holds more than 20 patents. Todd’s philosophy [...]
Claire: Prescription Reduction Timing
Claire asks, in the forum:I’ve had a -1.75 prescription (reduced from -2.25) for about 2 months. I did one month of the program and plan to do the 2nd month but for the moment I am just using what I learned from month 1 about focus pushing while reading, lots of breaks, outdoor walking.My question is, when you have a reduced prescription, are you supposed to wait until it becomes constantly blazing sharp to reduce it again? With this -1.75 [...]
Zaifang: Keeping Your Teens Eyes Healthy
From the forum:Okay, right now it’s a bit more than 30 days (thanks to some off days), and we have had some off days, but some of his progress has been pretty great. Here are his measurements from day 1:Left Eye 21cm -4.75 Worst 20/400 Best 20/100Right Eye 21cm -4.75 Worst 20/400 Best 20/100Combined 22cm -4.50 Worst 20/300 Best 20/70 (barely)-2.00 42cm -2.75 Worst 20/200 Best 20/60 (barely)-4.00 ??cm -0.75? Worst 20/40 Best 20/30Then now:Left Eye 24.5cm -4.00 Worst 20/250 Best [...]
Fall & Winter – Take Care To Have Good Lighting
A quick note for those of us, who live in climates not blessed by tropical sunshine: Since there tends to be much less in daylight hours available, and many of these daylight hours are likely to be more overcast, you may want to take more care about getting good light into your day. Most of the slowing down of progress in vision improvement tends to come in the fall and winter months. We don't have the luxury of decreasing our [...]
Andreas: Reversing The Course On Myopia
A quick word of warning: While writing this post, I am finding myself in a bit of a disagreeable mood. Keep this in mind while reading. I do generally try to be calm and maintain a peaceful distance of the "myopia is irreversible" crowd of esteemed professionals.Today is not one of those days, though ...Every day I see people wearing glasses. In most places, it is as many as half. I have to assume that many of the rest of [...]
John: 87 Days, 1 Diopter Improvement
John ST, describes his improvements, and in the process shares some interesting tips:I have been following this program for 87 days and am happy to report that my prescription has gone down by about -1.00. My starting “full strength” prescription was -5.5 -0.5 right eye/-5.0 -0.5 left eye. In September, the checkup showed -4.75 -0.25 for right eye/-4.25 -0.5 for the left. Since then I have also found that this new prescription is beginning to feel “too strong”.Dr Alex has emphasized [...]