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!
Another Study: Glasses Cause Rapid Myopia Progression In Children
Studies, darlings. Today we've got a very interesting one, showing very clearly that minus lenses cause children to get myopic faster - and conversely that *not* wearing glasses, while already mildly myopic, slows myopia progression. Yes, maybe you're rolling your eyes right now. Obviously all this is obvious. Still though, it's fun to rub studies in the establishment's clueless faces. So let's get to it. Study, titled: "Effect of uncorrection versus full correction on myopia progression in 12-year-old children." [...]
Bates Method: Getting In The Way Of Real Solutions (Video)
Quick YouTube story telling time, today. In this one I attempt to explain the harmful nature of the otherwise benignly silly concept of eye exercises. For most health related topics, there's the symptom managed, mainstream, quick-fix, pill popping side. And then there's the other side, a causality addressing, solution seeking, "healing" approach to the problem. Both of them are generally known to people who do any real amount of research. Take dentistry. Yea, you can eat candy and get cavities [...]
Steven: Improved From -6.50 D To -5.50 D (Optometrist Confirmed)
It's time for another (supportive) optometrist confirmed improvement report, darlings! Look at this one for all the ingredients of good progress. High myopia as a start, proper measurements of diopters required, improvements logged fitting the average expected annual rate of myopia reduction. Courtesy of Steven, posting in our Facebook group: Original post here. Bring out the horse, Jeeves, for this next bit. Myopia is one of the largest "health epidemics" humanity is facing today. Failing vision is affecting as many [...]
Strain-Stimulus Equilibrium: No Gains, Plateau Talk
Plateaus. A dreaded word, of no more 20/20 gains. Here's the thing, the progression that you're likely to experience. You start out with endmyopia, accepting the bearded sage's wisdom as your only true and divine eye-gospel. You find gains-ful salvation from the lens sellers and find yourself needing less and less of their artificial diopter eye poison. You're making righteous gains, just like the ones you keep reading about in all the improvement reports. Your vision improves, you're feeling [...]
Optometrist Confirmed: Jayesh Reduced -8.50 D To -7.00 D
Despite my best attempts to diversify the blog content, improvement reports remain our single most common feature. Why, you ask? Because we're awesome, that's why. Here's Jayesh: Full thread. Note that even the autorefractor, aka. optometry's Magic Eightball(tm), comes to the same conclusion here. How's this possible, day in, day out, all these gains from all these darling students? The only entirely reasonable explanation is the obvious one. Jake is actually back from the future, time traveled to your [...]
Adam’s 1 Year Update: -3.50 To -2.75 (Optometrist Confirmed)
Another day, another improvement report. This one has two elements that make improvement reports extra special. #1, it's Adam posting in the Facebook group. E-mails are great too but Facebook helps removes some potential concern about these all being genuine. I know, you're thinking it. Jake's not likely to put in the effort to fake hundreds of e-mails for years and years. Fair concern though, the Internet is full of made-up unicorn farming. I'd rather have you skeptical than overly trusting. So, Facebook. [...]