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!
Glasses-Free By Summer
As usual, we're way behind on posting improvement reports. There are quite a few I didn't manage to put here from the Facebook group, assorted e-mails, we're really getting a lot of visit to the city of (20/20) Gainesville these days. Here's Ian's progress, and an excellent summer goal: Doable, this one. I bet Ian will indeed be spending quite a bit of his outdoor time without glasses, by summer. It might not be unquestionable 20/20 yet in [...]
The Big Primer On Buying Lenses (And Cost!)
Quick Lens Education: If you're being quoted hundreds of dollars for a new pair of glasses, you may want to read this post, first. The very last pair of optometrist "prescribed" glasses that your darling eye guru ever bought (close to -5 diopters and lots of astigmatism correction), cost me over 700 Euro. They had a very cool boutique German designed almost rubber type of tiny frame. Or frameless really, since the lenses were drilled (single screw, with a [...]
Oskar: 17 Years Old, Reverses 5 Years Of Myopia (-9.25)
Looks like we've been neglecting updates from the Temple of Gains, lately. So let's get to a bit of catching up. Today we've got Oskar - who is about to escape the madness of double digit diopter myopia: Lens pimps, not thrilled by this. You know you love these progress updates. And we'll skip making fun of old-timey lens sellers today. We're going to resist starting any kind of meme theme with similarly insightful theories as the "myopia is genetic" conspiracy theory. We [...]
STUDY: Does Undercorrection Cause More Myopia?
Here's today's (pseudo?) science argument: Your glasses aren't strong enough, so your eyes will get even worse. Fact, or fiction? If you've been digging into myopia science (good on you!), you've probably come across Chung and his drum beating that undercorrection causes more progressive myopia. One of the things most challenging about finding answers in scientific literature, is having to dig through nonsense. Faulty logic, poorly conceived experiments, lacking critical data, bias, and the ever-present excessive use of fluff-science-language. You can't [...]
Simple Changes Reduced 10 Year Old’s Myopia By 34%
The story today: Ten year old girl reduces myopia from -1.50 diopters to -1.00 diopters, in just one single year. And anyone can do this for their child. A smart reader once pointed out that endmyopia isn't alternative medicine, or a competitor to modern optometry. Endmyopia is simply not about medicine. Endmyopia is about science. We look at studies, we conduct experiments, we test hypotheses, we measure, we record, we quantify results. We don't advocate cures, we don't proclaim to be [...]
Won’t Do LASIK, Eye Doctor Calls Her A Coward
You saw the title and clicked. You're expecting a rant from uncle Jakey. But no. This is going to go all differently. A bit of a public service announcement, this post. Be aware that questioning your doctor's diagnosis is neither polite nor appropriate. Even if it sounds like a sales pitch to your admittedly untrained, non-medically educated little clueless ears, don't start asking a bunch of questions. You came to the professional for professional advice, you got the advice. Also, this post [...]