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
Pedro’s Optometrist: “You Need A Full Diopter LESS”
Even the dark side has to side with us, sometimes.
-1.50 Diopters To -0.75
The member's starting prescription was -1.50 sphere with -1.75 cylinder in the right eye and -0.75 sphere with -2.25 cylinder in the left eye. After starting in September, their current contact lenses are -0.75 sphere / -0.75 cylinder in the right eye and -0.25 sphere / -1.25 cylinder in the left eye, and they report seeing 20/20 about 90% of the time. They use slightly under-prescribed contacts together with plus glasses for close-up work. See more [...]
Lexi: -4.25 To -2.00 Diopter Progress | The Shortsighted Podcast
Evolutionary biologist reduces her myopia by 50%.
-4.00 Diopters To -2.50
The member reports going from -4 to about -2.50 over roughly 60 months. They say their vision is at least not getting worse on average, and note that stress and holiday sugar intake seem to affect their eyes. They also felt things looked sharper at a distance after an hour in a float tank. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
Adam K.: -1.75 Diopters To Zero
He started at -1.75 in his left eye and -1.5 in his right eye. After hearing a podcast interview in July 2022, he stopped wearing glasses except when driving in areas he is unfamiliar with. He reports no distance correction the rest of the time. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
Kaustav: -1.50 Diopters To -0.25
Kaustav reports reducing his myopia from -1.50 D in both eyes at first diagnosis to -0.25 D in both eyes. His latest ophthalmologist prescription measured OD -0.25 D and OS -0.25 D. He credits finding active focus, cutting screen time from 8 to 9 hours a day down to under 1 hour, and some plus lens wearing. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
