Starting Point: -4 To -5 Diopters
Congratulations, sort of. You have less diopters than many, though it’ll take you a little while to make it back to 20/20.
Which one could say, is kind of good news. 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’re a failure in the vision department. 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:
Laurens Update: -3.75 Reduced To -1.50
Quick one today, have to post this great update for you before I lose track of it. This one from Laurens, via the BackTo20/20 forum: Hi folks, So today I’m three months underway since I got that first email from Jake in my in-box. A lot has happened since then. I started at -3.75 full correction for both eyes. Right now I’m down to -1.5 normalized and full correction being around -2.0. I can see 20/40 [...]
Desiree: -5D To -4D (and seeing much better without glasses)
Desiree, making all the 20/20 gains: Well done. This was originally an update filled with all kinds of Jake-rants. All that really matters though is you reducing your myopia, increasing the distance you can see clearly, enjoying more of what's around you through your very own eyes. Cheers, -Jake
7 Months Progress: -5.50 Diopters Down To -2.50 Diopters
Not much blog posting lately, apologies darlings! Your favorite eye guru is still alive, currently effort is going into make video versions of the 7 day free e-mail guide. That and some highly overdue bug fixes on the site, and some BackTo20/20 updates, and also researching doing maybe more interactive video stuff with you guys. (Webinars? Maybe? Time zones and Internet speeds, still working it all out.) But let's clear a few progress reports from the [...]
Wayne, Joseph, Paul: Sharing Progress Updates
Today, let's look at a few improvement reports, status updates, thoughts and musings. First up, Joseph: Sure, "eyes wanted more diopters". Caveat emptor, with the lens sellers. All Joseph needs now to keep making the 20/20 gains is to work on a good outdoor habit. Walks with active focus, or some hobby involving using distance vision. Pretty simple from there to keep reducing the plastic lens focal planes. Next up, a post from Wayne in the [...]
Rayann’s -5.5 D: Optometrist Confirms Full Diopter Gains
From -5.5 diopters to -4.5 diopters improved, and all sorts of skeptical scrutiny. It does pain an old eye guru to attribute any credibility to the mainstream lens sellers by having this whole category of "optometrist confirmed" 20/20 gains. As if their opinion mattered, or as if their measurements were any better than your own. But ... perhaps look at it as despite-attempted-denial result, something even the propagators of myopia can't deny. Sow some doubt among [...]
Alexandra: -4.50 Down To -2.00 (In 12 Months)
People sometimes make excuses about reducing their myopia. Oh Jake they say, whether I got -4 or -2, I still wear glasses either way. Seems like a lot of hassle you know? Why am I going to spend a year, two years, for really what's just glasses anyway? Darlings. The difference between four diopters of the fake minus plastic focal planes, and two diopters of the same - is huge. Four diopters, you're not finding your [...]