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!
Why You Should … Keep A Log Of Your Gains
A foundational principle of our way to improve eyesight is quantifying results. No feel-good fruity eye exercises, no om-shanti unicorn jungleberries, no chakras and chants and throwing away your glasses and hoping for the best. We want to test a hypothesis (will x-stimulus improve my own eyesight) by measuring and logging and ultimately quantifying specific change. That's what you should be on the lookout for with any given idea of implementing a regimen to extract a desired change. Keeping a [...]
This One Simple Trick To Reverse Astigmatism (?)
Ahhh, darlings. When you're all old and grizzled and yet a magnanimously magnificently bearded guru of ancient mystical origins, you get to hear a lot of stories. A lot of similar, repeating stories. Stories for example, of astigmatism and how mysteriously astigmatism disappears once you stop listening to the optic shop's ideas of "treatment". But let's be honest. This sort of magical recovery talk all borders on sacrilege and conspiratorily crinkling of tinfoil hats. It honestly pains me to have [...]
Amanda: -8.00 & -2.25 Cyl (!) Reduced To -5.75 & NO Astigmatism
Is astigmatism real, Jakey? Can I reverse my astigmatism, Jake? Can I? Can I, though???????? This, a question that's one of the many recurring themes in an old guru's inbox. Nevermind that there's an entire separate category here just on astigmatism or the countless improvement reports discussing astigmatism reversal. Because honestly, reading. What a bore. A beard shrugged. None of this applies to you because you're fully old school, reading written words and whatnot. You even put up with all [...]
Dawn: From -4.00 Down To -0.50 (11 Months Progress)
Looks like we've been neglecting progress updates again as of late. Oops! There are dozens of new progress updates in our Facebook group and while your old guru has managed to save a few of them, the actual posting here has been a bit wanting. A bit wanting and also my favorite part of the blog. Darling members making all the 20/20 gains! Here's Dawn's recent update: Beyond expectations. That's not in any way a rate of progress you should [...]
Optometrist: “Child Myopia Could Be Temporary”
Each day small treasures wash ashore in the guru-e-mail-inbox. This is one of the major benefits of having become the main destination for myopia control conversation online - a lot of interaction, a lot of people writing in, a lot of conversation happening in our Facebook group, forum, .... and messages that end up in the inbox. The guru isn't actually wise at all, but rather just the grumbling librarian of a whole world of individual experiences. Shut up Jake, [...]
Maurice: Finally Found Distance Active Focus!
As always your favorite old homeless eye guru is guilty of not posting nearly enough guides and how-to's and updates in the blog. Guilty as charged, your honor. You will find more frequently updated content in Le Meow (our private forum) and in our Facebook group. A lot of times I'll just screenshot an interesting e-mail and post it in either of those venues since it takes so much less time than writing a blog post here. So if you're [...]