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!
Science Confirms: Human Eye Axial Length Growth – In 60 Minutes!
Bet your optometrist hasn't told you this little story.
Optometrist: Not Going To Increase Your Prescription
Some days the Facebook group is a great place. Days when new members post stories about their myopia journey, how their diopters kept increasing, and in many cases how the mainstream may just play the key role in creating these high diopter scenarios. Even better, the scenarios where an interesting optometrist casts doubt on the whole premise of more and more (and more) diopters. Here's Alexandra: The truth is out there, kittehs. Of course as a regular reader here, you [...]
Melissa: 18 Months Progress Report
Continuing the streak of progress reports, today is Melissa's turn. This one is in centimeters which of course you can also directly convert into their diopter equivalent. You'll note that I often recommend that you measure at least three dimensions, including close-up via centimeters, as well as eye chart, and a real outdoor distance landmark. Here's Melissa's progress update: We get spoiled with all of these updates. The main piece of excitement for Melissa here is that her eyes equalized, showing [...]
Karen’s -3 D: 1 Diopter Of Natural Focal Plane Gains!
Getting back to the roots here, posting more of the daily incoming improvement reports. Karen is on track with initial improvements, which can be as high as a full diopter in the first ninety days in some cases. Of course from there things settle into a more measured pace, but the initial boost is a great place to start! That's 25% less diopters! This is where you want to be. Imagine being able to lose (or gain) 25% of your [...]
D.B.: -3.50 To -2.50 Progress Report
Today, a nice e-mail progress report from Dan. As you read, note his progress rate which is right around the figures most eye gurus suggest. Handy also his access to online shopping options, circumventing the massive markups and often condescending attitudes of local chain store outlets. Patience and reading the blog before getting started with diopter changes is key to success. Unless you are doing the structured BackTo2/20 approach, take the time to learn the basics and read plenty of [...]
Michal: Ready To Reduce Normalized Glasses?
Today, an interesting progress update in our darling Facebook group. This one goes a long way to make the point about when to reduce your diopters. A divine and sacrilegious eye guru has been heard saying that 3-4 months is a good time frame to reduce, and generally by just 0.25 diopters. But that's just an average number. Rather than strictly going by numbers, you want to get to know your own eyes. Eyes are part of the whole [...]