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!
Jakey Didn’t Drown (& Will, From -6.50 To -3.50)
The title, part a myopia success story. Will went to Gainesville, came back with all the 20/20 gains. He started with high myopia at -6.50 D and reduced it to almost half that, at just -3.50 D. Just another success story. But wait. Let have a quick story time. Jake vs. the ocean. Jakey's been learning to kitesurf. Sport involving the ocean and a board, like a snowboard of sorts, and a big kite that pulls you as [...]
Myopia: Do You Accept Their Diagnosis? (Video)
Myopia is for life. Most will never even contemplate that it could be the treatment, the very "prescription", causing the future degrading of their eyesight. They aren't likely to ever find the professional journals that discuss optometry's role in increasing myopia. They aren't allowed to make their own choices about a curved piece of clear plastic they may want (or not want) to put in front of their eyes, even if it causes more of the symptom. To contemplate the mere possibility of escaping myopia, you'd have to become a renegade. Making sense of clinical studies [...]
Comment Edition: “Jake Shouldn’t Exist on This Planet!”
Here's a secret to add to your knowledge of the mysteriously non-mysterious eye guru: Jake equally enjoys outpourings of love and also, not-love. That's right. Love, hate, equally appropriate. (As long as it's not indifference.) Youtube comments in particular appear to host a lot of interestingly inspirational sort of messages (and grammar and spelling). As they do say, never read your Youtube comment section! So let's read the Youtube comment section. Or at least one highlight: Effort went into that outpouring of [...]
Michael: Endmyopia Skeptic, 3 Month Update
Blind faith is a liability. And skepticism is healthy. It keeps you out of all sorts of potential trouble. And on the flipside while many unicorn farmers love endmyopia, they also love everything else. So I have to talk them out of putting things in their eyes, and squeezing their eyes, and all sorts of things they keep digging up online. Like a kid always on the way with the fingers in the light socket. I like the skeptics. [...]
Low Myopia: When Can I Stop Wearing Glasses?
You have low myopia, and you're anxious to stop wearing glasses. You wonder, when's the right time? First you hopefully already understand underlying concepts, such as the blur horizon, diopter bubble, and active focus. A whole lot has been written about this by your darling eye guru, like the articles why not to stop wearing glasses, and a whole category dedicated to just focal planes and what to do with them. Above is a treasure trove of insights you won't [...]
Moose Butt
We talk about numbers a lot, when covering vision improvement reports. That's all fine and good. Tangible. Relatable. Quantified data, not emotional unicorn farming. This is largely the environment created by your darling eye guru, so we don't fall into the trap of the subjective, the flowery adjectives, the faith and shanti unicorn pony zoo. Once in a while though we need to remind ourselves that the end result isn't about numbers. It's about something much more. Janna, in the [...]