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!
Should You Use Bi-Focals To Improve Your Vision Health?
There is a whole Installment in the Child Myopia Web Program dedicated to this topic. Bi-focals give you the opportunity to combine near-vision needs and distance-needs into one convenient prescription. Two set of lenses, in one pair of glasses. Genius, yes? Not necessarily. First of, we have the problem of prescription complexity. One of the rules of the #endmyopia Method is that we always, always want to reduce and eliminate prescription complexity. So bi-focals already don't pass that test, just based [...]
Hurting Your Eyes: Your Prescription is Too Strong
It's probably the thing I find myself saying most, in my day-to-day life: "Your prescription is too strong." My name could be Alex, your-prescription-is-too-strong, #endmyopia. This post applies not only to new or casual visitors, but also to participants in the Web Program(s). Installment #56, from where we borrow the headline image, discusses this for program participants. If you are one, but haven't made it to #56, it's something to look forward to. We discuss how our bodies tend to [...]
Optical Delusion – You Can See Much Better Than You Think Possible
There is a very powerful factor in medicine, therapy, and medications. One that does not rely on any practice or specific substance. One that no matter what medication you take, makes you feel better. It is such a common factor, that it is included in almost all therapy effectiveness studies. It is part of most new medication trials, as well. It is this effect that may be keeping you from reaching your full eyesight potential. You know the factor I [...]
Guest Post: Jake’s Latest Fashion Frame Adventure
Hi, I'm Jake. I'm addicted to fashion frames. Alex invited me to guest post. I started the eyesight recovery journey with a -4.00 prescription, currently down to -2.25 (most of the time). I spend quite a bit of time sweet talking optic shops, making deals, getting custom things made. Playing with auto refractors, all the eye checking gear, shopping for glasses on multiple continents and more than nine countries, so far. For me, the key to ongoing progress is active [...]
Core Concepts of Eye Health: Focal Plane Switching
If you are participating in any of my Vision Improvement Courses offered here, this is a familiar topic to you already: You can't have healthy vision, if you rely on a single, static focal plane (ie. your glasses). The reason you have a stronger than -1D prescription, is that -1D prescription that you started with. You need glasses, because you wear glasses. Of course the reality is a bit more complex than that, and there is no miracle myopia cure. [...]
Eyesight Health Insights: Why You Respond Emotionally to High Resolution Displays
At the #endmyopia project we'd always been sticklers about the optical quality of any sort of close-up focus displays.TVs, computer screens, being the ever increasing primary driver of myopia (shortsightedness), I used to watch with horror at the increasing mobility of computers, and the terrible display quality that came with them. I remember distinctly the early models of the Macbook (150, 165c, etc). You could take a centimeter measurement of your eyes before, and two hours into looking at those [...]