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!
The Facebook Group Is Working
The title does kind of say it all. Granted, your darling eye guru is having to do the occasional pruning of ze idiots ("how you do it?!", "how i fix eyes tell me now!"). But beyond that understandable bit of confusion, the group is thriving nicely. Chalk this one up to one endmyopia test project that is surviving the test phase. Very happy to see that advanced members are helping newbies out with questions, and seeing an ongoing volume of [...]
Active Focus, Does It Actually Work? (Clinical Science)
Want clinical science confirmation that active focus (as we like to call it), is a relevant and productive concept in reducing human myopia? Yes? Then this post is for you! Active focus is a core concept of the sagely-bearded Steiner method for reversing your myopia. Active focus provides both a vehicle for strain reduction (during close-up, via 'pushing focus'), and positive stimulus to reduce myopia (during distance vision, 'pulling focus'). The concept of replacing some of the passive viewing [...]
Ljupka: From -3.00 Down To -1.50 (In 7 Months!)
Today let's look at another progress report, this time from the BackTo20/20 support forum. You probably noticed that we get a lot of 20/20 gains stories from our Facebook group, as well as some that I repost from my e-mail inbox. I like to cover as many of these as possible since any one of them may be closest to your own situation and provide you with the most relevant insights. These reports aren't "testimonials". Look at them both as [...]
New Glasses: Massive Eye Pain!
Have you ever left the optometrist's office with new glasses, and your eyes hurting like never before? "Oh you'll get used to it", they tell you. If you were to ask a sagely bearded eye guru, he'd probably tell you that you should go home and measure your own focal plane error and that you might have way more diopters than you need. Maybe. Also look for diopter ratio changes, or changes to cylinder correction. This is the sort of [...]
(Another) DIY Diopter Measuring Tool
This post is if you, if you're looking to make your own diopter measuring tool. Of course first there is the whole topic of centimeters and diopters covered in various posts in the lens and diopter blog category. And also of course with endmyopia being by far the largest and most comprehensive science based vision improvement resource online, readers and students have created various similar forms of diopter measuring tools. Adding to the list is this DIY solution, posted by Charleen: [...]
Initial Improvement Experiences: Stephanie & Eli
As usual, we're behind in posting improvement updates. Today a few that aren't of the zillion-diopters-reversed category. Those are awesome of course, but what can be even more tangibly inspirational is the gains you get when you first try Jakey's magical recipe. Starting out with reduced corrections can be daunting. Less clarity. More blur. You put those glasses on and every time you wonder, am I nuts doing this? Eli posts in the FB group: Starting gains. This isn't the [...]