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!

-2.75 Reduced To -1.50: Optometrist Says Don’t Tell Anyone!

Following the theme of the past few reports, this one straight to the point. If you're wishing for more gratuitous commentary and digressions (no Jake, you're thinking), those will hopefully be back soon.  Schedules being rather tight lately with sunshine and travel, the old guru is only managing the bare minimum of blog updates for you at the moment. Let's look at the update teased in the post title: And there we have it. You know how much your favorite [...]

By |3 Diopters, Low Myopia (2 Diopters & Less), Optometrist Confirmed, Student Reviews|
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Sander: 35cm Improved To 88cm (In 3 Weeks, Wow!)

Quick one today, kittehs.  No time for sarcasm, rants, pensive guru-beard stroking, or the low hanging fruit of making fun of retail optometry. No, darlings.  Today it's straight to the 20/20 gains. Here's Sander's latest update from the BackTo20/20 support forum: Hello Jake! Though it is a late update, this one is major one. It has been around 3 weeks that I have started wearing my new differential: Right eye: -2,25, Cylinder: – 0.50, cylinder power: 8 degree. Left eye: [...]

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Laurens Update: -3.75 Reduced To -1.50

Quick one today, have to post this great update for you before I lose track of it. This one from Laurens, via the BackTo20/20 forum: Hi folks, So today I’m three months underway since I got that first email from Jake in my in-box. A lot has happened since then. I started at -3.75 full correction for both eyes. Right now I’m down to -1.5 normalized and full correction being around -2.0. I can see 20/40 easily with good lighting [...]

By |3 Diopters, 4 Diopters, Low Myopia (2 Diopters & Less), Student Reviews|
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Louise: Child Myopia Reversed (+ Optometrist FASCINATED & more)

A guru walketh among us, darlings. There was a time you could have been born when the earth was still flat, much like myopia is some kind of mysterious disease in current day optometry reality.  Right now you're living in a time where the old eye guru's teachings are still considered heresy.   What do you mean, they say.  It's bad eyeball genetics. Treating symptoms as a for-profit enterprise?  Great idea, Watson!  Nothing could possibly go wrong making money selling [...]

By |Back To 20/20, Child Myopia, Low Myopia (2 Diopters & Less), Optometrist Confirmed, Student Reviews|
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Optometrist Confirmed: Imtiaz Almost Back To 20/20

Today back to the ever popular topic, endmyopia vs. optometry mainstream.   No matter how anti-social the beardly eyeguru may be, the over 90.000 monthly readers of the bloglet continue coming back for more.  The site is growing, the Facebook group is growing, even the beaten stepchild that is our YouTube channel gets a few new subscribers here and there.   And with the increasing awareness about the myopia-illness-myth, comes increasingly more recognition by even the retail mainstream. To highlight, [...]

By |Back To 20/20, Low Myopia (2 Diopters & Less), Optometrist Confirmed, Student Reviews|
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How To Get Free LASIK Surgery

Got an interesting e-mail from a darling reader.  Free LASIK surgery offer from his insurance company. Isn't that swell? Ask yourself this:  When's the last time an insurance company has literally contacted *you* offering to pay for things?  If there ever was a red flag too red to even joke about, this pretty much would have to be it.   "Well hello there Mr. Joe, it's your insurance company.  We want to let you know that if you want this [...]

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All contents on this site should be considered research material only.  We are not offering medical advice or treatment or cures for any illnesses. The reduced lens method is strictly experimental. Before considering taking steps to control your own myopia, you should definitely visit a qualified ophthalmologist for a comprehensive eyesight checkup.   Specific diagnoses illnesses aside,  most) myopia may be considered to not be an illness at all.  Most myopia is likely just a matter of environmental strain, and excessive prescription use.  You yourself may be able to control and reduce your own myopia by 1) managing eye strain, 2) conservative prescription lens use, and 3) targeted positive stimulus. We recommend finding a prevention minded optometrist to supplement your journey with professional advice and prescription management help.  While not a requisite, a supportive optometrist may make your journey that much more enjoyable! Potential Side Effects: (1) You may experience astigmatism-like symptoms, especially if you reduce too fast or without paying attention to this (transient) symptom. Search our Youtube channel or Website for 'transient astigmatism'. This can easily be prevented or managed. (2) Some people report an increase in eye floaters when practicing active focus. In general floaters are considered harmless but a sudden increase in floaters should be evaluated by a medical trained professional, as they could be a sign of retinal detachment or other serious medical condition. Generally taking it easy, not over straining, practicing gently and with patience should help. (3) Headaches. You're taking on a very much unsanctioned self-experiment changing diopters. Anytime you overdo things or change too much or aren't educating yourself first, you may expose yourself to strain symptoms. You should be experiencing no pain, headaches, or discomfort if you do things correctly!