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:
Debi (-4.00): 1 Full Diopter Reduced In 6 Months!
We get a ton of e-mail from readers wanting to get into the BackTo20/20 program, but having missed the invite (yes, it's not a marketing ploy after all). Or lacking funds. Or otherwise not meeting one of the other detail requirements. I always respond to this the same way: Everything you need, is here on the site (and free). Actually I say this many times in the free e-mail guide, it's one of the top [...]
Kim: -6.5 D Down To -4.25 D
Let's look at a great detailed progress report from our very own Facebook forum moderator, Kim. It is fantastic that some of our students come back to endmyopia to help others along with their journey. And in this case, even volunteer with some of the things that may otherwise drive an old eye guru a little (more crazy). Here's Kim's full report: Hey guys, this is going to be a long post. I started this [...]
Kristen: -4.25 Down To -3.00 (In 5 Months)
Gains, gains, moar gains! Today another report from our darling Facebook group. These are particularly nice since they give a bit more social context, and often enough you can later look back and see their earlier improvement reports as well. That last part is key since not many methods outside of ours actually work past the first diopter! Here's Kristen: Greeting cards f rom Gainsville. A vast beard of purely mythical proportions is looking on from [...]
Dina (-4.25): Optometrist Confirms 1 Diopter Vision Improvement
Another day, another report of 20/20 gains. Or make that a couple of reports, actually. For the sake of keeping it interesting we'll do one that's showing how the mainstream has to acknowledge that bearded wisdoms are the real thing - and another that's more about a bit more subjective (but arguably more important) experience of improving eyesight. Let's start with ze numbers, yaaa: Screenshot and all. Nice right? Coincidentally most of the detractors and nay-sayers [...]
Andrew (-5.00): Natural vs. Artificial Light – Results!
You wonder if it's really that important to get natural ambient light for your close-up time? Andrew sheds some (natural) light on that question, in this post. There's an annoying tendency in a lot of teachings. And that's the tendency to add superfluous things, embellishments, hoops to make you jump through. I personally suspect they're there just to make the teacher seem more important, the approach more complex and requiring of expert instruction. It must be [...]
Mantas: -5 D To -4 D Progress Update
Some say that Jakey may occasionally seem like a bit of a tyrant eye guru. Guru VanCrankypants. Most of that though, just predictably appropriate responses to various types of questions. For instance if you were to ask how long till I'm at 20/20, Jake. Or, how many people got to 20/20, Jake?!! It's like going to see your business advisor about starting a business and your first question being, when will I be a millionaire. Or going for [...]