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Steve: Dry Eyes, No Active Focus! | Shortsighted Podcast Episode Clips

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Short clip from our most recent Shortsighted Podcast episode, with Steve:

Dry eyes, for sure a thing to sort out before you get too far into the endmyopia journey.

You will possibly struggle more with active focus, and your visual acuity will be less than it should be with the correct level of tear fluid layer.

There’s also quite a bit of discussion about dry eyes over in our private forum.

Lots of individual experiences as well as quite a few solutions that may work for you.

I always recommend you start with our wiki for searches, then the forum – and if need be, the giant mountain of a resource that is this Website.  

The full episode with Steve, the whole story of his 50% reduction in lens dependence so far, is available over in our forum (in audio only format) and the video is in the Pro Topic videos (available with BackTo20/20 or Le Rough Guide).

You can also find the first 50 full episodes for free here.  

Side note on no-longer-free podcast:

I stopped doing full episodes for free to offer more to members who support these resources.  For a little while we started putting some full episodes on Youtube again – though no longer the case again since I sometimes end up in conversations involving personal opinions (gasp!).  And as NPC mainstream news adherents will certainly tell you, there is only one way to look at current events.  

And that was that, for free podcast episodes.  Since I don’t plan to self self for the lowest common denominator, most updated content is members only now.  

Check out the full episode if you’re a member, it’s worth a listen.  I have another episode already recorded as well – that one will be fun since it’s all the way down to 0.50 diopters.  We love the “ditched glasses” updates!

A bientôt, kittehz.

– Jake

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“Close-Up”: TV Screens Or Just Phone Screens?

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All contents on this site should be considered research material only.  We are not offering medical advice or treatment or cures for any illnesses.Before considering taking steps to control your own myopia, you should definitely visit a qualified ophthalmologist for a comprehensive eyesight checkup.  Specific diagnoses illnesses aside,  most) myopia may be considered to not be an illness at all.  Most myopia is likely just a matter of environmental strain, and excessive prescription use.  You yourself may be able to control and reduce your own myopia by 1) managing eye strain, 2) conservative prescription lens use, and 3) targeted positive stimulus.We recommend finding a prevention minded optometrist to supplement your journey with professional advice and prescription management help.  While not a requisite, a supportive optometrist may make your journey that much more enjoyable!Potential Side Effects: (1) You may experience astigmatism-like symptoms, especially if you reduce too fast or without paying attention to this (transient) symptom. Search our Youtube channel or Website for ‘transient astigmatism’. This can easily be prevented or managed. (2) Some people report an increase in eye floaters when practicing active focus. In general floaters are considered harmless but a sudden increase in floaters should be evaluated by a medical trained professional, as they could be a sign of retinal detachment or other serious medical condition. Generally taking it easy, not over straining, practicing gently and with patience should help. (3) Headaches. You’re taking on a very much unsanctioned self-experiment changing diopters. Anytime you overdo things or change too much or aren’t educating yourself first, you may expose yourself to strain symptoms. You should be experiencing no pain, headaches, or discomfort if you do things correctly!

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

Myopia Control & Child Close-Up Time: TV or Legos? | Endmyopia Q&A

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The topic closest to your favorite guru’s tiny little black heart, kid’s eyesight (and how to keep it working properly).

Adults, I could sort of take it or leave it.  Plenty of people are their own worst enemies, and we’re well capable of making our own choices, doing our own research, being responsible for our indulgences.

Kids though, they don’t know any better.

So when a small child is being given a phone or iPad as babysitter, an otherwise magnanimous beard isn’t very happy.

And we go from not very happy to directly pissed off, when some dime store retail optometrist lets unsuspecting visitors to his mall retail store believe that he’s some sort of medical doctor (he absolutely isn’t).  He’ll call his retail lens sales ‘prescriptions’ (they’re just clear curved pieces of plastic), his customers ‘patients’ (no you aren’t sick, and a shopping mall isn’t a hospital), and worst of all – sells parents glasses for their little kids.

F*ck those guys.  It’s where I draw the line.

Yes of course, there is far worse in the world, and plenty of the same level of bad.  Anybody associated with Kraft Foods for example, or just industrial food in general, or most of what big pharma gets up to, or pick any politician or divorce lawyer or the American for-profit prison system, or whatever militaries get up to.

I know, kittehz.  Glasses are a minor infraction in the scheme of things.  Perhaps in the spirit of the lesser evil, I picked optometry to be the thing to rail against, educate about, and help you escape from.  All those other evils that’s for somebody else, let Elon build the space ships.

Anyway, excuses for rants aside, here’s a quick clip from our recent live chat Q&A, talking about kid’s close-up time:

And again, I’ve said plenty about child eyesight.

You might also get creative searching our wiki for child myopia topics.

Here’s the thing.  As a parent, you’re the one who is likely set  examples the little ones are going to remember for the rest of their lives.  And we live in incredibly strange and unprecedented times.  How do you keep your kids from turning into TikTok zombies, when all their friends are already?  Are you going to have to go full-native and escape all of default culture, risk them not getting socialized properly around their peers?  Do you just go, well it’ll be fine, I have to go work now.

I don’t know either.  My prior answer was to build an off-grid house in the jungle and at least delay all those questions for a good while.  That didn’t work out either, so I’m not the one with the answer.

So I just offer the little picture:  Phones are not good toys.  If you have little ones, maybe this is a good time and reason to address your own phone addiction, so at least they don’t see their role models scrolling like a zombie.  Just like you’re not getting drunk in front of them or chain smoking cigarettes, show them that there’s plenty more to life than letting billion dollar companies get your soul in exchange for mindless entertainment.

God Jake again with the rants, you’re thinking.

I know.  But this is the fuel that provides the motivation to continue to also offer tools.  

Go make some 20/20 gains.

– Jake

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Teaching Children Active Focus

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All contents on this site should be considered research material only.  We are not offering medical advice or treatment or cures for any illnesses.Before considering taking steps to control your own myopia, you should definitely visit a qualified ophthalmologist for a comprehensive eyesight checkup.  Specific diagnoses illnesses aside,  most) myopia may be considered to not be an illness at all.  Most myopia is likely just a matter of environmental strain, and excessive prescription use.  You yourself may be able to control and reduce your own myopia by 1) managing eye strain, 2) conservative prescription lens use, and 3) targeted positive stimulus.We recommend finding a prevention minded optometrist to supplement your journey with professional advice and prescription management help.  While not a requisite, a supportive optometrist may make your journey that much more enjoyable!Potential Side Effects: (1) You may experience astigmatism-like symptoms, especially if you reduce too fast or without paying attention to this (transient) symptom. Search our Youtube channel or Website for ‘transient astigmatism’. This can easily be prevented or managed. (2) Some people report an increase in eye floaters when practicing active focus. In general floaters are considered harmless but a sudden increase in floaters should be evaluated by a medical trained professional, as they could be a sign of retinal detachment or other serious medical condition. Generally taking it easy, not over straining, practicing gently and with patience should help. (3) Headaches. You’re taking on a very much unsanctioned self-experiment changing diopters. Anytime you overdo things or change too much or aren’t educating yourself first, you may expose yourself to strain symptoms. You should be experiencing no pain, headaches, or discomfort if you do things correctly!

Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site

Active Focus With Double Vision? | Endmyopia Q&A

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Improving your eyesight is super simple.

Just reduce your close-up strain (no full minus), and then add a bit of strategic stimulus by slightly reducing your distance diopters.  There, that’s really all there’s to it.

Except … the devil, bearded as he may be, is in the details.

And having been at this for going on 20 years now it turns out that these details are seemingly endless.  At least judging by the questions and how my original plan a decade ago, to spend a week or two writing up how to fix myopia has turned out.

Oh well.

Here’s the latest clip from our recent Q&A chat:

I count eighteen more clips in the queue to be published.

There are also a hundred+ improvement updates I saved from my inbox that I still haven’t put up here.  It’ll all happen somehow, eventually.  We really should get some more minions to get some of this done.

Also go make some 20/20 gains.

Cheers,

– Jake

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Can My Child Wear Differential Glasses ONLY?

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I recently did an hour long live chat video Q&A session for BackTo20/20 members.

Lots of eyeball questions were covered, good chat.  I made clips of some of the questions and a quick Youtube playlist for you:

Free stuff, somebody else doing all the work.  Isn’t Jakey just the nicest?

The question here is an important one, because kids.

I always hesitate to get into child-specific topics, I don’t have any paid courses just for children, that whole category is as important to me as I’m reticent to talk about it.

The thing with kids is, they’re developing.  Lots is going on.  You have to interpret their experiences through their evolving relationship with language, there is a lot of emotional and social and physical development going on – all things that benefit hugely from good eyesight.

Between the challenge of entertaining them (without using phones!) and making sure they see well, adding endmyopia in case of existing shortsightedness is absolutely a parenting challenge.

What I always says is:  Prioritize them seeing well.  From developing fine motor skills properly, to socializing naturally by being able to see facial expressions clearly, you really want to make sure that you’re not messing with diopters unless you’re really confident in what you’re doing.  Again, a lot of development relies on good eyesight.  Things I suggest for adults, may be too much of a compromise for a child.  It’s up to you to make choices on that front.

Anyways.  It’s all solvable, lots and lots of parents are doing it.  

Go make some 20/20 gains!

Cheers,

-Jake

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Q&A: Help With First Differential Glasses

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Q&A: Help With First Differential Glasses

I do answer all questions!

Did you know that I answer member questions every single day?

Here is one (and my detailed answer) from today:

Lots going on here.

Digging in:

Indeed, I do this every day.

How much longer that option will be available for new course buyers, I can’t say.  But you might as well get in today so that you’re definitely on the list of members that get my attention directly.

Cheers,

-Jake

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Formerly genetically defective. 🤓 Weaned off retail optometry lens subscriptions, now 20/20 eyesight. Also into BJJ, kitesurfing, paragliding, being stupid.

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“My Top 10 Biggest Mistakes” (Endmyopia Journey)

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Repost,  of Netanel’s excellent newbie mistake Le Meow forum thread and Facebook posts:

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It has been almost a year now and it is time to share my experience and do a little shaming to myself. :laughing:

In my first draft of this post I wanted to tell the whole story of how I found EndMyopia and what is my philosophy of life to get you the background of what I was thinking and may help many others to avoid my mistakes, but I decided to keep this post short and concise and up to the point so I skipped this part and hope you will not assume that I’m total idiot :see_no_evil:
Nonetheless I will simply put that some of my mistakes came from pedanticism or misunderstanding of the instructions or overdoing or overthinking or mixing other eyesight improvement ideas (like Todd Becker’s print pushing method) or perfectionism or impatience or enthusiasm or all at once.

The order of the mistakes is random and a result of what came up to my head at the time.
However, each one of them is very important and therefore I can’t find the right order for them.
So, treat each one equivalently.

Mistake 1:
Reducing both SPH & CYL correction at once.
It is bad ‘case the eye has 2 different blur types (Double vision and regular blur) to resolve and it is slowing the process of resolving the image.

Mistake 2:
Starting both norms and diffs reduction instead of diffs only.
It is bad ‘cause you don’t have the reference of clarity and you get lost. Moreover, you can miss the baseline of clarity in the beginning of the process for the measurements part.

Mistake 3:
Reducing too much.
My original correction at the beginning of the journey was -7.50 -0.75/-7.5 -0.50 and right away I jumped to -7.00/-7.00 of norms and -6.00/-6.00 of diffs (without CYL correction on both). That was too much.

Mistake 4:
Not buying online.
This is the root cause of my choice in Mistake#3. I was trying to save money with as few glasses as possible and I messed up with my process at the beginning.
My first months of EndMyopia journey was like wander away in the darkness (Literally)

Mistake 5:
Not measuring rigorously.
I was reducing too fast because I felt a lot of improvements in my eyesight but it was never enough for a reduction. I was giving myself credit for seeing letters that I don’t really recognize if I never knew they were there in the first place.
“It’s better to focus on the acuity and blurriness of the letters rather than whether you can just read them or not” @NottNott

Mistake 6:
Thinking that diffs are making the magic rather than the norms.
I was thinking that diff is doing the AF magic and norms are just for not making the regression when you look in crasp clear while looking at the distance.
Therefore I was using my diffs for nearly all of inhouse activity and left norms for only outside vision.
It is totally the opposite. The norms are doing the magic and diff are just to prevent the Myopia regression. You should use your diffs only for close-up focus and norms for all the rest even if you see clearly at mid distance.
“Normalized means normal life” @Reannon

Mistake 7:
Thinking that seeing clearly even for a moment is bad.
I was trying to maintain a constant blur to my eyesight thinking that it will accelerate the process.
I was using 2 diffs for both screens and books to maintain that.
It is not necessary as it is good to see references of clarity from time to time and switching too many focal planes is bad. Lots has been written about it.

Mistake 8:
Thinking that I will beat the process.
It is so immodest of me to think that I will be the chosen one that will beat thousands of long journey success stories.
I thought that I would find a trick that would make the process much faster. Thanks to eye yoga teacher Yehoshua Malinsky, I was trying his failed method in 2014 which was claimed to fix eyesight in just a year, so I was convinced that there must be a trick that will accelerate the process.
I indeed found that blood flow is helping AF and in some cases it can replace the 20-20-20 rule as it gives the ciliary muscle what it needs but it is not accelerating the process. Not significantly anyway. See this post for more details. (Blood Flow To Help Active Focus 3)

Mistake 9:
Trying to resolve too much blur with Active Focus.
I was doing Active Focus on indistinct letters on my screen while working and it was doing no good for my eyes nor any good for my work either.
I was thinking that resolving too much blur will accelerate the process but I was definitely wrong.
It is better to do AF on much less blur that you CAN resolve to a clear image rather than too much blur that AF is only improving the clarity a bit.

Mistake 10:
Not doing Active Focus on 3D moving objects.
That was only in the first couple of months and I caught the wrong pretty fast but I still think it is worth bringing it up.
In the beginning I was thinking that AF is only possible on static objects as you need the image to be static to focus on. It is true in the beginning when you have to discover Active Focus but after you get on it you should do AF on 3D moving objects at the distance as it is more effective to blur resolution.

Those mistakes made me look like an idiot around my friends, and rightly so.
You can imagine a situation where someone wants to make a conversation with me and I switch to diffs in front of him to avoid looking through my norms in mid distance.
Moreover, those mistakes slowed my process and made the opposite of what I was trying to achieve by overding EndMyopia method with them.

“Keep it simple. It is a long journey and the more you keep it simple the more it will be easy to keep up” @jakey

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Q&A: Differentials Too Strong For Book Reading?

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Wouldn’t you know it, an Old Beard made a new video.

Dozens of people will watch it.

The theme of this one, blur horizons and differential diopters and how much you should (or shouldn’t) fret about the exact amount of over or under or exactly-just-so correction:

Maybe it’s because a Jakey’s brain is small, the goal is always to simplify as much as possible.

Start with the simplest possible way (and diopter choices) and don’t add any complexity unless the simple isn’t good enough to get the job done.  Less to keep track of, less variables in troubleshooting, easier habits, more likely to translate to a more varied group of people.

Simple isn’t super sexy or mythical or awe inspiring.  Which incidentally though are three words people instinctively think of when they witness the shimmering expanse of the eye guru’s beard.  

Talking like this will never make you appear legitimate Jake, you’re thinking.  

Which, you’d be right.  We like to make sure that nothing espoused here is ever mistaken for plug-and-play advice.  Or unequivocal or quotable or easily understood by the lowest common denominator. 

Either way.  Most likely one close-up and one distance correction is all you need.

Cheerios,

-Jakey

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Floaters Because Endmyopia? DON’T DO THIS!

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Most people don’t have a problem with floaters.

And for those who do, I generally don’t have answers.  Ye ole guru deals with myopia only, not anything else related to eyesight or biology or really, anything at all.

Go see an ophthalmologist if you have floaters. 

And see this video.  It’s floating around on the Internet:

There.  Nobody is going to accuse me of making serious or quality content.

Go forth, make some 20/20 gains.

-Jake

P.S.:  Your eyes aren’t “broken”.

It’s your lens use and habits that keep making your eyes worse.  And the massive hundred billion dollar optics industry loves it.   They keep selling you stronger and stronger glasses, and tell you stories of some mysterious genetic “myopia illness”.

It’s nonsense.  Your eyes are perfectly healthy.  

Check out Annette’s post in our Facebook group.  From -5.25 down to the last diopter already:

Exactly.

To find out how Annette did this, grab a copy of my free (yes, darling freeloaders, don’t pay me for this one) 7-Day guide.  It’ll teach you all the basics on how to start getting your eyes back.  No sales pitch!  

*No eye exercises, no Bates Method, no unicorn farming.  Just science and evidence based stimulus and habit changes.

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