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
Squinting Child: What Does It Say About Eyesight? (also, 20/50 to 20/25!)
I was told recently that things around here started looking quite professional. Cat meme, to fix that entire misconception. If you're a regular reader here, you know that it's a good idea not to be squinting at things. You can blink, especially if you understand active focus, and get a much better result than squinting. You'll also avoid all sorts of squinty-wrinkles in the long run! ;) Why the squint topic today? It's a [...]
Improving Your Eyesight: An Emotional Journey
Eyesight exercises don't work. If we ever start a swag shop, that'll be on the first t-shirt. What does work, is habits. And where there are habits, and change, and challenge, there's emotion. It's something you want to consider and be ready for. You're not going to jump in and start seeing better, without some ups and downs. So if you're working on improving your eyesight (or kind of wishing it was a real thing), this is [...]
Three Stories
I send out a "how's it going" e-mail periodically. The responses, often really worth the read. Struggle, success, questions, random commentary, I'm a little addicted to the whole thing. Let's peak at three of them, today. First, Ivana: Quick and to the point. The e-mail admin is pretty well trained by now to know what to let through and what not to. And while I'm really not so great at managing e-mail or keeping track, I'm being [...]
Christian’s Last Diopter! From -1.25 To -1.00
Let's catch up on some more of the progress updates today. If you have forum access, it's really sometimes quite handy to click on the person's name next to a post you find intriguing. You will get to a page showing all topics started by them, as well as all threads commented in. With this you can often get a whole picture of progress, challenges, questions, problems, everything that the student dealt with to get to [...]
Paul’s Progress: -2.00 to -1.25 (in 3.5 months)
Here's Paul's progress report from the forum: Hi Jake, long overdue, but today I will add to your unicorn farm of progress reports, with some questions attached. So how is it going? I started at the End of July, so approximately 3,5 months into the program. I started with prescriptions between -1.75 and -2.00 and I noticed my eyes were getting worse (that’s another reason I joined this program). After some starting issues I did one lesson everyday [...]
Scientists, 75% Astigmatism Reductions, & Pinhole YOLOs
A quick cross section of various questions and comments, today: It would be so silly easy, all of this myopia discussion, if we were all scientists. So, so, so dreamily easy. Trouble is, a lot of the PDFs and things I link in the science section, are all full of partially unnecessary academic lingo. So unless you're used to weeding through it, you might be inclined to skip the science due to complete boredom. That's very [...]