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!
Is Myopia Genetic? (Video)
"Sorry, dahhhling. Your myopia, it's genetic." Here's the bottom line, before we fully get into this topic. If a 'doctor' says those words to you, then he or she is an idiot. You're thinking, Jake. That's a bit harsh. But it's true. For you or me not to know how genetics work is excusable. And actually if you consider a doctor to be an individual who collects information from you about a series of symptoms and then sells you some [...]
Craig: 11 Year Old Myopic Son, Clear Flashes!
You know about my reticence when it comes to commenting on child myopia. So many things happening in the young, developing eye. It really is ideal to have a knowledgeable, non-old-timey lens seller (behavioral optometrist) to properly evaluate what's going on with the child's eye. Much better than just reading some Internet eye guru spoutings and taking your chances with a Jake type! That, darlings, the disclaimer. (heartfelt and not just CYA) Somethings it's straight myopia though, and there is [...]
A Complicated Differential Glasses Reduction Scenario (Pro Topic)
Pro topic. Don't go monkeying around with diopters until you really know what you're doing. Messing around with diopter ratio, making focal plane changes, all creates a series of interactions with your visual cortex. If you don't know what you're doing you might at minimum cause unnecessary discomfort - or more negatively, impact your opportunities for future progress. Quick post today, with just part of a BackTo20/20 forum thread. This one highlights how changes (improvements) in your vision that may [...]
Ben: -9.25 D Reduced To -7.50 D (in 3 Months!)
The improvement reports, the 20/20 GAIIIINS, they just keep rolling it. It's quite interesting, the volume of e-mails. And also the membership growth of our darling Facebook group (15 to 20 new members added every day - with about 70% of member requests getting approved). Like a tiny little fire burning at the edge of the forest, all of this. Here's Ben: Backing away from the abyss. There's something extra menacing about double digit myopia. You only end [...]
Q&A: Sniper Stare, Medium Distance Focal Plane, & More
Q&A for those with low myopia and advanced level endmyopia students. There's a brilliant thread in the support forum right now (many brilliant threads, but this one really gets me). If you're in BackTo20/20, or even if you're going DIY with just the blog, you might love this one, too. Todd has been keeping his progress all in one thread, reducing astigmatism, working on equalizing, and running through an interesting scenario of travel and home-habits time. He's right at [...]
Back To 20/20: Emily Passes DMV Vision Test
People ask, every so often ... Jake, do any your students actually get all the way back to 20/20? They realize that they read hundreds of improvement reports, diopter after diopter, but the full 20/20 stories are comparatively few and far between. So it's fair to wonder, at first glance. Does endmyopia just offer some vision improvement, based on the general nature of reports from students? Many Diopters, But Only One 20/20 The biggest piece to consider is exactly this. [...]