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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!
Astigmatism Correction – Doing More Harm Than Good?
The current round of Web Program topics (#52 to #60) discuss the specifics of astigmatism. While there is no one-fits-all answer to the subject of astigmatism correction, there is a set of guidelines and principles to consider. If you are already in the Web Program, these installments will guide you through likely scenarios, and ways to check your own vision and astigmatism correction. Let's look at some of the more common realities: If your regular prescription is less than -1.75D, [...]
Buying Glasses: Supporting Local Optic Shops vs. Online Shopping
Once you begin to actively working on improving your vision, prescription lenses become an important part of of your efforts. You will of course want a much lower prescription to use when you are focused up-close (or plus lenses, if you have low myopia). Add to that a lowered distance vision prescription, and all the prescription changes you will make over the course of your recovery. Having a quality and reliable source of prescription lenses will make life so much [...]
Keep Your Eyes Strong & Glasses-Free: Distance Vision Tricks
Most people don't think about myopia. If they don't need glasses, they tend to assume that they are just 'lucky'. Likewise, those that end up with their first prescription, have no idea that they could prevent or reverse the condition (quite easily, at that point). If you have read through the site at all, you know what causes shortsightedness: extended close-up focus. There are a number of things that causes some people to not become myopic easily. Strong exercise habits [...]
Effectively Measuring Your Child’s Myopia
Your optometrist may like to rely on a $50,000 auto refractometer. You can beat the accuracy of that technology, with some lego toys. Once you consider what those tools really do, the need to spend big money on them becomes a bit more of a nebulous topic. The only thing that they look for, is how far your child's eye can focus effectively. That's it. No staring deeply into the child's soul, no answers about the meaning of life. Just [...]
The Centimeter Measurement
The Measuring Tape Once you have a bit of practice, taking a centimeter measurement only takes a few seconds. You will use this for several purposes: Get a baseline reading before you begin your improvement journey. Measure for variance - How much your eyesight changes throughout a regular day. Measure for strain - How much your eyesight is affected by long hours in front of a computer. Measure for prescription - How strong your glasses should be. That is [...]
The False Focal Plane Vs. Reduced Lens Method ™
Managing diopters for better eyesight with the reduced lens method (endmyopia).