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!
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. [...]
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 [...]