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!
Christiane: “Can Read Without Glasses Again!”
Diopters, schmiopters. Let's talk important stuff, today. Let's talk goals and enjoying life and victories and all those sweet, sweet 20/20 gains you are hopefully making. Because perspective is key, and it's all too easy to fall into the wrong perspective, but also all too easy to find the right one. Let's take a look. A great e-mail for this topic, a nice initial improvement report from Christiane: "Read without lenses again ... " Milestones! People often ask me, [...]
Andrea: Optometrist Confirms Myopia Reduction (-5.00 Down To -3.00)
-5.00 down to -3.00. That's a 40% reduction in myopia, and confirmed by the optometrist. Wow. The endmyopia library of individual improvement reports has grown quite impressively large at this point. Spanning years and students from every walk of life, ages from 5 years old all the way to 90 and over, and from all over the world. And these stories are everywhere, from my e-mail (and yes, I saved them all), to the BackTo20/20 support forum (obviously), all the way to social [...]
Keith Goes Back To Wearing Glasses (20/30 – 20/10)
Some of the vision improvement voodoo on the Internet says that glasses are the root of all evil. Stop wearing glasses, they say. Which of course is sucky advice, since you end up giving up all of your clear vision. And while your myopia will reduce to a small extent, it won't likely reverse your myopia or improve your quality of life. It's why Jakey says, don't just stop wearing glasses. Instead learn what causes myopia, understand concepts like [...]
Coopervision MiSight Contact Lenses: A Breakthrough In Myopia Control?
A contact lens, specifically marketed to children, said to prevent high myopia? Coopervison MiSight contact lenses present a complete paradigm shift in commercial, mainstream myopia control. They should be making news worldwide for their break with tradition, and wild claims that focal planes affect myopia development. But nobody is really talking about them. Why? Let's take a look at what Coopervision claims with their MiSight contact lenses: "Reduces Myopia Progression" "Reduces myopic progression, for better vision when not wearing glasses [...]
(CURIOUS) SKEPTICS vs. (TROLL-TIME) HATERS
... repost from endmyopia Facebook thread: You might one day find yourself creating myopia myth-busting related content. Random posts. Or even better, quick videos. Right now reading this you might think, nah Jake. Never will happen. Don't be so sure, though ... it sneaks up on you. You see that upload button on your Facebook phone app, you had a glass of wine already, you find yourself pointing the phone camera at your face. Recording your opinions and ideas and [...]
A Recent Innovation
Written By Despina Contributing Optometrist I have recently been reading about a certain well-known contact lens manufacturer's latest innovation, named the "Myopia Management System". It is described as a holistic approach to minimizing myopic progression, and is aimed at myopic children and those at risk of developing myopia. It is marketed as a more effective alternative to other methods of myopia control, such as atropine, Ortho-K and bifocal/progressive spectacle lenses. The company recommends the use of their new daily disposable, [...]