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!
Child Myopia Diopter Strategies
I have a whole category of the blog dedicated to child myopia (link to child myopia subjects). We can't apply all the adult strategies verbatim, since there is a big difference between most children, vs. adults: the child might not really so much care about sacrificing short term convenience, for long term gain. In fact, it is quite unlikely for most children, especially in the more vulnerable to eyesight change younger years, to be uncomfortable, for the promise of some [...]
Should I Stop Wearing Glasses?
I see this question a lot, in various forms. Let's look at similar prescription related mistakes: Wearing under corrected lenses, without understanding active focus. Never getting eye checkups, for fear or bad news / higher prescription. Not ever wearing glasses, despite myopia diagnosis of several diopters. The instinct, of course, is the correct one. A false focal plane, as it is created by glasses, is in concept not good for your eyes. Further, if you wear one, and [...]
My Favorite Close-Up Strain Minimizer
If you have been visiting, hoping in vain for new content, I apologize. There is always still much else going on, even with this Website. Most recently I spent quite a bit of time to get rid of the slow load times. They have been plaguing the site for a good six months! I hope that you are enjoying some improve load times now. As for my favorite close-up strain minimizer, this is a simple but highly effective strategy: Of [...]
The Definitive Guide: What Is Astigmatism
What Is Astigmatism? A defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images. There are any number of highly detailed sources all over the Web, discussing the question of 'what is astigmatism' in terms of physiological flaw of the eye. While we won't go through the trouble of reiterating all the commonly information here, we will take a closer [...]
Recognizing Clear Focus Triggers
Exercising the eye is much like exercising any other part of your body - a single activity creates a stimulus with far reaching consequences. If you run on a treadmill or lift some weights, you are just doing one thing: Moving muscles. This is exactly what you are actively doing, when working on your eyesight (affecting the ciliary muscle actively, vs. passively letting glasses do the work for you). When you do lift weights or run on the treadmill though, [...]
Focal Plane Hangover, Chicken Livers, more
I am out for a conference, which has left little time to answer your e-mails, look over the forum, and take care of site updates. My apologies! I will be back to regular schedule in a few days. Meanwhile though, I updated Installment #65 for those of you who successfully managed not only to work out close-up blur, but also distance blur. There is a thread in the forum related to the subject, where some participants are discussing the results. [...]