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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!
Simple Tips For Avoiding Child Myopia
A few excerpts from Installment #11 of the Child Myopia Program: There are two main components to close-up: Distance and time. If we observe neither, we may have a child that spends three hours at 20cm from a screen – which almost certainly guarantees significant myopia in the child’s future. Our goal is to affect both time and distance, without creating a major desire for the child to cheat. This requires slow and modest changes, to give the child’s mind time to [...]
Corinne: -3D to 20/20 in 18 Months
With Corinne's permission, a repost from her blog: You will find many statements in literature and on the Internet claiming that there is no cure for myopia. My experience shows the reverse to be true. These two images represent what my naked-eye vision was like before and after 18 months of hard work on improving my vision. In fact, the "Before" image is too good, but it is not easy to represent what myopic eyes truly see by means of [...]
What You Missed: The Peak Prescription
I always say, we want low prescription complexity. No bi-focals, and lowering astigmatism prescriptions (which now you also have the tools for, and the forum to ask questions if you need specific advice). I say, that we need a prescription for close-up, and one for distance – and maybe one, for night time / driving / activities requiring optimal vision. And that’s enough, to keep pushing towards better vision. Sort of like it’s enough to go to the gym twice a [...]
Active Focus – Key To Reversing Myopia
We talk about active focus quite a bit, though so far a proper explanation, outside of the Vision Improvement Courses, has the been lacking. Explained in some detail in #11 of the Child Myopia Reversal Course, I copy-paste the relevant parts here, to serve as future reference for this very important aspect of improving your eyesight. While some of this is in the specific context of dealing with child myopia, the core concept is relevant to all of us. We must push focus to [...]
How Fluorescent Light KILLS Your Vision
The marketing consultant keeps pushing me to add some hyperbole to the titles. He insists that my Austrian sense for civility and understatement is not what you want - so there we have it: Fluorescent lights kill your vision.And they do, sort of.If you are participating in any of my Vision Improvement Courses, you know all about my credo of 'don't take Alex' word for it'. As with anything else I tell you, you can try this one yourself, quite easily:Pick a [...]
The Relative Correlation of Astigmatism
For today's post, an excerpt of the Adult Myopia Rehab Program - Installment #57. It discusses the finer points of how much you can and should reduce your myopia prescription, as your eyesight continues to improve. The excerpt here skips the actual recommendations, as they are based on previous installments, prescriptions strengths, and a number of fundamental concepts previously discussed in the program. That's to say, I'm not withholding just to tease, but because the recommendations would be out of context. [...]