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!
Magda: Astigmatism Cure
Magda writes about her astigmatism cure:Dear Alex,I am so excited to tell you --- I was prescribed by the glasses shop -3.50 and 4.25 recently. I persuaded him to reduce them to my old prescription of -2.75 and -3, but he also added a ton of astigmatism adjustments, 40 and 80. Three weeks later I just now purchased and tried on a pair of glasses with a straight focal plane, both measuring -2.50. My eyes relaxed and released in a way [...]
How to improve your eyesight.
See the idea working first, then read. The demo below is the Active Focus tool: move the sliders and watch what a small amount of distance blur does, and what happens when you work at its edge.Open the tool full size Improving eyesight, in the sense searched for here, means reducing how much correction a nearsighted person needs, not sharpening vision beyond what glasses already correct to. Jake Steiner began publishing on the subject in the site's own archive from [...]
Corinne’s Cure Myopia Journey
We have all heard the story from the optometrist: "Can't cure myopia". It is for this reason that I like collecting the stories of program participants here, especially posts from the support forum. But of course I am not the only one providing tools to help reduce and cure myopia. And while I am biased towards the finer points of the method discussed here, you can absolutely improve your vision using the strategies referenced on some other sites.This particular story [...]
John: Progress From -5.50 to -4.00
John writes:I started this program in July last year (2013), with about -5.5 for both eyes with astigmatism at about -0.5, and a +2.50 add for reading (I am 60 years old). My glasses were progressives. I suspect I may have bee over-prescribed; the progressives eased that over-prescription a bit as tilting the head back a bit gave a lower prescription effect for whatever I was looking at. Astigmatism now has one page that gathers all of this in one [...]
The World’s Best Shop(s) To Buy Your Glasses
Jake writes: Your suggestions for shops were AMAZING. I've bought glasses in a dozen countries over the years, and everywhere from cheap Websites to nice optic shops. Nothing compared even remotely to Lutz Paul. Thanks for the tips! (also would be a great blog topic) We talk quite a bit about shopping for glasses here in the blog (if you are looking for some more of them, look at the Prescriptions and Glasses category). I do get quite a few [...]
Should You Buy CR-39 Lenses Instead of Polycarbonate?
What Is A CR-39 Lens? CR-39 is a clear plastic lens material, chemically allyl diglycol carbonate, with a refractive index of 1.498 and an Abbe value of 58. It has been the default eyeglass plastic since the 1940s. The name comes from "Columbia Resin, formula 39", the thirty-ninth batch of a resin developed by PPG. What Is The Difference Between CR-39 And Polycarbonate? CR-39 is optically clearer. Polycarbonate is harder to break and thinner. The trade is optical quality against [...]
