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!
Reducing Diopter Ratio: DIY Patching Solution (PRO TOPIC)
Diopter Ratio: The percentage difference between your left and right eye spherical diopter values. People sometimes refer to it as weak eye and strong eye, although I prefer not to use those terms - it is entirely normal biology for one of your eyes to be dominant (ocular dominance). We also talk about diopter ratio and ocular dominance here in the blog. Here, here, and here. If you're not familiar with ocular dominance and the basics on when and [...]
DIY TOOLS: How To Measure Your Astigmatism Diopters
Now updated with vector graphic PDF to print.
Almost There! First Full Diopter Reduction
Let's look at another quick e-mail and improvement report. Michael writes: Quick and to the point. He includes a chart of his progress. Note that this one shows diopter reduction, though without the usual 0.25 increments. While often we're looking at centimeter charts where improvement equals more centimeters, in this case we're looking at diopters going down as myopia reduces. Logs. Highly recommend! That's almost a diopter for each eye. Michael also posts in the Facebook group, including this thread [...]
Chelsee: Optometrist & Autorefractor Confirm -2.5 D
Let's look at a nice, solid vision improvement update from Chelsee. Before we get there, note that while I mention the "optometrist confirmed" and "autorefractor results", I don't want to give that old timey myopia exam charade a whole lot of power or meaning. The optometrist confirming improvements isn't the ultimate victory - look at that checkbox as one more way to look at your 20/20 gains. Something even the interestingly rigged eye exam can't deny. The real measurement is what you [...]
Plus Lens Therapy: READ THIS BEFORE TRYING
Maybe you've been looking for solutions to your myopia online. You probably found a zillion eye exercise sites. Sounds less than credible to you, the hippies, plus who's got the time for all those exercises. You probably found eye vitamins. But you looked for studies on those on Google Scholar and found it's just fluffy B.S. You saw eye yoga and snickered derisively, thinking about all the poor saps who fall for that lightweight Internet marketer nonsense. And then. Then you find [...]
Angie’s Must-Watch Eyesight Update (YouTube)
Vision improvement is a fringey topic. The sort of Internet health thing littered with all the unicorn pony farming and feeding on your hope and trust to sell you magic herb vitamins and secret-handshake eye exercises. Which, some people live for that stuff. Vague symptoms and magic weed cures. As much fun as that might be, our goal here is to get you all the 20/20 gains. I don't waste your time on the esoteric nuances of the self help hamster wheel and [...]