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!
New Differentials: Plateau Or Rapid Improvement?
What happens when you get new differentials? Does your vision improve rapidly, do you end up seeing just as well as with the previous, higher diopter differentials in a matter of days? Or is it a long, tedious process to get back to your previous level of centimeter distance from the screen with the lower correction? As usual, interpreting your experience isn't entirely straightforward or one-size-fits-all. Biology is always a very individual experience. And there are variables such as whether [...]
Where Are My Gains?!
If you started recently and not seeing all the 20/20 gains (yet), this article is for you. Are you experiencing slow improvement rate? Let's figure out the scenarios. After a decade and thousands of students, we've got a pretty good profile for the average myope profile that we encounter here. Give or take a few variables, this is very likely close to your own scenario, too. The Average Myope Profile Let's see how close (or not at all close) you are [...]
Polycarbonate Lenses – Bad For Your Eyes?
Science time. Fasten your seatbelts! Before we get into it, let's address the clickbait title. It's exactly about that, this post. Getting baited and scared into buying things. Know how they get you! First, I want to show you that clinical science knows a lot, a whole lot more about the eye than most of the retail outlets we have all frequented for myopia advice. Let's see that the so-called optometry medicine has little to do with optometry science. Retail optometry owns the right to make certain claims [...]
This Tea Tastes Like Fish (& Christina’s 1st Month Progress Report)
Your darling Jakey, updating the proceedings today for you from a very local flavor coffee shop in some very tucked away, very windy town. Somewhere in Vietnam. It's not a tourist spot, that's for very definitely sure. A vaguely bearded guru-face rode along so many endless miles of seemingly abandoned (and shockingly beautiful) coastal road, fate seemed committed to run me out of fuel completely and permanently. No vaguest semblance of a gas station in sight for hours. Jake would end [...]
American Journal Of Optometry: Adult Reduction In Axial Length
Shortsightedness is reversible?!
Does The Optometrist Respect You?
Respect. Glasses. A Jake post. Oh-oh, you say. Don't worry, this will be an entirely rant-free post. We're just going to take a bit of a look at what should be acceptable interaction with you as customer, and what might be less so. Let's start here: The optic shop is a business and you are a customer. Curiously and what you may want to contemplate first, is the often notable disconnect between the outside of this sort of establishment, and the inside of [...]