Starting Point: Low Myopia
Congratulations. You literally have the least amount of myopia of anybody following the beardly method. But still it’ll take you a little while to make it back to 20/20.
Which having made it here before you ended up with high myopia (like many), is fortuitous for you. The so-called professionals have told you that your eyes just aren’t good enough and that you definitely need their amazing product. They’d keep telling you this while your myopia may well be continually increasing (especially if you’re staring young).
But now you are here to get a different idea about myopia … skeptical ideally, open-minded, hopefully.
By now you likely found 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:
Low Myopia Progress Updates
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 [...]
7 Year Old Child: Reduced -2.25 D To -1.50 D & Astigmatism Eliminated
Li posts in our Facebook group: Progress update of my 7-year-old son Myopia detected February 2017 (optometrist confirmed) Right -2.25 cyl -0.25 Left -1.5 cyl -0.5 Spectacle introduced. March 2017 (computer check at optical shop) Right -1.75 cyl -0.25 Left -1.5 no cyl Spectacle adjusted. April 2017 (optometrist confirmed) Right -1.50 no cyl Left -1.25 no cyl Spectacle adjusted. Here are the changes we made. I wrote lengthy, but is just a little change. - distance [...]
Simple Changes Reduced 10 Year Old’s Myopia By 34%
The story today: Ten year old girl reduces myopia from -1.50 diopters to -1.00 diopters, in just one single year. And anyone can do this for their child. A smart reader once pointed out that endmyopia isn't alternative medicine, or a competitor to modern optometry. Endmyopia is simply not about medicine. Endmyopia is about science. We look at studies, we conduct experiments, we test hypotheses, we measure, we record, we quantify results. We don't advocate cures, we [...]
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 [...]
Moose Butt
We talk about numbers a lot, when covering vision improvement reports. That's all fine and good. Tangible. Relatable. Quantified data, not emotional unicorn farming. This is largely the environment created by your darling eye guru, so we don't fall into the trap of the subjective, the flowery adjectives, the faith and shanti unicorn pony zoo. Once in a while though we need to remind ourselves that the end result isn't about numbers. It's about something much [...]
Todd: Getting First Normalized Glasses at -2.25
I'm a big fan of structured approaches. Call me lazy (or maybe just efficient). Somebody else already figured it out, great. Introduce me to that guy. Give me the cliff notes. Let's get straight to the key bits, I don't get a huge sense of accomplishment taking the long way if there's no need for it. Fine. Maybe I am just lazy. Here's somebody who is definitely not lazy though, and also demonstrates how one might benefit from [...]