Starting Point: -2 To -3 Diopters
You officially have less myopia than many students of the beardly guru. That’s pretty good news, though it’ll take you a little while to make it back to 20/20.
Promising news, yes? So far all the so-called professionals and doctors have been telling you that nothing at all can be done about your shortsightedness. They say suck it up, you can’t see sh*t without us. Give us your credit card, consider yourself lucky we’re here, and buy these glasses.
And then you end up on this page anyway, skeptical ideally, open-minded, hopefully.
Then you start finding out that retail optometry knows that minus lenses cause myopia and that myopia in most cases isn’t an illness at all. Myopia is usually nothing more than a refractive state, meaning that your eyes simply adapted to both strain (from close-up) and stimulus (of the wrong kind, from minus lenses).
Oops. And you may look and find more and more articles on the subject, realizing that you’re neither hopeless, nor broken.
That part isn’t really in question, at least not once you explore a bit of the clinical science and studies that can easily be found on Google Scholar. The real question is, is Cooky VonJakenstein off his regal rocker, or is this particular dirty stock trader and capitalist Schweinehund on to something, with all this talk about reversing myopia?
This is the question. Is endmyopia just more Internet unicorn farming, or is it the real deal?
Spoiler alert, at the very least it’s run by a amusingly deranged creature of the beard.
But whatever. What counts is results, and so let’s look at some results for those who started out just like you:
Adam’s 1 Year Update: -3.50 To -2.75 (Optometrist Confirmed)
Another day, another improvement report. This one has two elements that make improvement reports extra special. #1, it's Adam posting in the Facebook group. E-mails are great too but Facebook helps removes some potential concern about these all being genuine. I know, you're thinking it. Jake's not likely to put in the effort to fake hundreds of e-mails for years and years. Fair concern though, the Internet is full of made-up unicorn farming. I'd rather have you skeptical than [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Teddy: From -3.00 To 20/20 Without Glasses
Here's a type of question we get regularly: "Hey Jake. I see lots of people's improvement stories, but what about getting back to actual 20/20?" Valid inquiry, this. Here's what happens, for some perspective. A large majority of the many progress reports are all about work in progress. Diopters reduced, 20/20 gains made. Consider that a person may have dozens of great improvement milestones, but only one final 20/20 story. So you get a lot [...]
Dmitriy’s Progress Update: -2.5 Now Down To -0.75 (at 20/15)
Low myopia progress, always a tricky beast. We talk about it quite a bit, in articles here, here, here, and here and even here. If you dig in the free guides, you'll find lots of help to get you sorted on improving low myopia. Like Dmitriy: You'll never fail at this, if you keep at it. Here's the FB thread. Stick with it. Much easier if you started with higher myopia and have that reference point [...]
Barb’s First Normalized Glasses: Dropped From -3.50 To -2.00 (In 1.5 Months!)
This is pretty amazing. Barb reports a 40% reduction in myopia in a month and a half. Sometimes you read these progress reports, and you just have to think. How's that even possible? What's the scheme here? Is Jake preparing some kind of eagle eyed cult scenario over there, wherever he is in Asia? Let's figure that out. First, a quick look at Barb's support forum post: Look at that centimeter graph. Data! <3 Centimeter graph to show us [...]