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!
Rochelle: Optometrist Confirms 1 Diopter Gains! (*just a giant rant)
The post image gives this story away a bit, but let's still bask in its glory for a moment. Key part of the experience here, supportive optometrist. Skeptical is good, supportive is great, acknowledging reality is ideal. I recently started saving the optometrist confirmed reports into its own category, just to highlight to the industry that not everyone in it has to be an unquestioning little robot parrot. If you are an optometrist you indeed can (and perhaps should) question [...]
William: -2.00 Reduced To No Glasses 20/20 Vision
It's time to catch up on some of the guru e-mail. Prepare for a colorful multitude of improvement reports today! First up, William: So close. Last diopter, always the tricky one. See the low myopia section of the blog. And here's Jaqueline having made more than the average progress of a year of improving eyesight, with 1.25 plastic focal plane diopters eliminated already: Solid progress. Yes, today was (yet again) meant to finally write a quick post about the mystically revelatory [...]
Rachel: The Power Of Emotions (Risky Topic!)
Don't discount the power of emotions in your journey to improving eyesight. Yes, an old eye guru scoffs at this sort of thing from time to time. And that's not because emotions aren't important - but rather because first you have to understand primary causality, biology, and science. You need to look at factors that can be quantified and scientifically validated. You need to train yourself to think critically and logically when dealing with self improvement. Otherwise you're at risk [...]
Q&A: Can I Reduce More Diopters For More Gains?
Generally speaking, you can reduce by 0.50 diopters - but quite likely you shouldn’t. In some cases (high myopia) it can make sense to do so – see here a more detailed breakdown. But then also reducing diopters more just means that you’re reducing your distance to blur. Seen clearly less far doesn’t really improve your vision at all – so does it make sense to make your diopter bubble smaller by half diopter? Stimulus is key to improvement. Blur [...]
Wayne, Joseph, Paul: Sharing Progress Updates
Today, let's look at a few improvement reports, status updates, thoughts and musings. First up, Joseph: Sure, "eyes wanted more diopters". Caveat emptor, with the lens sellers. All Joseph needs now to keep making the 20/20 gains is to work on a good outdoor habit. Walks with active focus, or some hobby involving using distance vision. Pretty simple from there to keep reducing the plastic lens focal planes. Next up, a post from Wayne in the BackTo20/20 support forum: I'm [...]
Amanda’s Daughter: 20/63 Improved To 20/40 (In One Month!)
Child myopia? It's not a thing! There's literally no good reason to let your children become profit centers for mainstream optometry. Literally none, unless you don't feel like doing the annoying you-know-what thing - actual parenting. And as a darling eye guru is discovering having a 2 year old now, actual parenting indeed is a giant pain. Having a large extended family and lots of frequent visitors, some days it feels that all I do is swat away phone [...]