Starting Point: -6 To -8 Diopters
This isn’t super awesome, mostly just because it’ll take you a little while to make it back to 20/20.
Which one could say, is actually kind of awesome. So far all the so-called professionals and doctors have been telling you that nothing at all can be done about your bug-eyed level of shortsightedness. They say suck it up, you’re a genetic dumpster fire. Give us your credit card, you tragic aberation, and buy these here 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:
Irina: From -6.25 Reduced To -5.50 (at 20/15), In 3 Short Months
Let's have another improvement story today, for "just with the blog". While BackTo20/20 is peerless, amazing, super worthwhile, it's something you might want, not necessarily something you absolutely need. Anybody smart, motivated, and persistent can use the free e-mail series and the blog, to get everything they need to get their eyes back. Pinky swear. Here's Irina's e-mail, on the subject: Yay! Also see what I keep saying. The only way you'll get answers, is by trying things yourself. [...]
Akira (-6.00): “I’m Only 21, Already Have Floaters And High Myopia”
Today, about a 21 year old taking action to keep his eyes. A great story! I look at Youtube like the puppy the kids brought home, the one that looks like he's for sure going to bite somebody (or everybody) before the day is over. Also, that doesn't even look like a puppy, kids. He's at least what, a half dozen years into a maingey existence? But so far the Youtube has been fairly well behaved. Occasionally even giving [...]
Kris Reduces Glasses From -6.00 To -4.50 (In 4 Months)
Youtube comment today, from Kris, a viewer and reader of the blog: I love getting these bits of feedback to share with you! Of course a reasonable diet matters (insulin issues often tie to eyesight problems) and from there it's not that much further to get some better eyesight habits as well. Nicely done, Kris. Housekeeping: Still in Indonesia for a few more days here, I brought various cameras and things but haven't done any proper [...]
A Tale Of Two Myopes (-5.50): Small Changes, 1/2 Diopter Better Eyesight
Two reader e-mails today, both illustrating how small amounts of habit and lens changes can have a measurable positive impact on your eyesight. Since they're a bit long for screenshots, I copy/paste the text version here. First, David: Hi Jake, I guess your question was just an automated email, but I thought I'd give you an answer just in case you are interested. Things are going remarkably well. In 4 months my eyesight has [...]
Cut Lens Prescription In HALF! (-6.75 Diopters To -3.00 Diopters in 5 Months)
Almost every day that I go through my e-mail, there's a story like this one.Somebody takes all the content on this site, digs through the science, does the free e-mail course, and gets to work on reducing their own lens prescription dependence. For most people who are determined and reasonably intelligent, it does turn out something like this:Do take this particular vision improvement story with a few grains of salt, because:Centimer, while an accurate measurement, is easy to look [...]
Kim’s One Year Update: -7.5 Diopters Down to -4 Diopters
I occasionally joke about what sometimes may look like an endless barrage of improvement stories. We could literally turn this blog into just improvement stories and myopia control progress reports, and cover every single day of the year.Who else, licensed or otherwise, can make (and back up) such a claim? You're the star of this show. You take what is certainly a challenging amount of information, from biology to optics to clinical science, you add your own patience and persistence, and [...]