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!
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 [...]
What is Astigmatism Adding to Harmful Prescription Complexity?
We touch on the subject of what astigmatism is adding in prescription complexity, in the Adult Web Myopia Rehab Program (Installment #53, Week 15). This is well past the core program of the web myopia rehab program. We are now well into discussing all the tweaks in really getting the most out of improving your eyesight. The core work was to eliminate the harmful single-prescription world view created for you by the optic shops. Understanding how to manage eye strain, [...]
What You Should Achieve: The First Month of Myopia Rehab
This is a relevant subject if you are either considering the myopia rehab program, or are currently in the first or second month.The question is: Where should you be, at the end of the first thirty installments?It takes most participants about six to eight weeks to make it to the key installment that wraps up the 'first month'. Installment #30 discusses the normalized prescription, which is the culmination of all the learning, measurements, and insights you have gained from the [...]
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 [...]
