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just get glasses you sperg

>>96316

What if everyone told this guy "just amputate your leg bro, just get a prosthetic leg"?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/12/25/can-meditation-cure-disease.html

You - filthy - mundane.

Just gonna leave this here even though it's rather mundane: http://endmyopia.org/

>>96324

I can't find in all this endless ranting the actual information as to "do this and your eyes get better" fuck.

Fuck it, signing up for this EndMyopia guide thing, gonna just do it all one day at a time as he sends out those emails. I'll keep checking this thread for info too, hopefully into that isn't the bates method.

Get glasses, eat lots of carrots, spend much more time outdoors and much less time with screens and books, sleep at night and be awake during the day. I'm reading Robert Bruce's book about energy work, there is a decent helping of self-healing information there and you can use that in addition to what you learn from your meditations on the Hermetic principles. Both are in the Occult Seed folder.

I know it's cliche but you could also try praying to a higher entity. With prostrations of course

http://endmyopia.org/teddy-from-3-00-to-2020-without-glasses/

lmao at this

>>96328

>Get glasses

Opinion disregarded right there. I'll read the rest of your post thoughjust to grill you some more.

>eat lots of carrots

Already do so because I stock up on months of food at a time and carrots are one of those things that you can easily store lots of for months. Liver has far more vitamin A btw.

>spend much more time outdoors and much less time with screens and books,

Has never made a difference to me so far.

>sleep at night and be awake during the day.

Literally impossible for me, for some stupid ass reason, and I've been trying to fix it for years. I can only sleep like 3 hours and only during the morning.

>I'm reading Robert Bruce's book about energy work, there is a decent helping of self-healing information there and you can use that in addition to what you learn from your meditations on the Hermetic principles. Both are in the Occult Seed folder.

I have the physical copy of that book.

>>96329

I already have plans for that. I want to try something a little more passive and easy to see if I can get myself to be at least a little less myopia within a month so I can get back to seeing clearly at arm's reach but at some point I'm going to bring down the heal power of Omnipotent God on myself too.

Glasses harm the eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEhYxefHylpSgoiXDWcBrlA

tfw he has 109 videos holy shit

>>96330

Good luck fam, keep trying to fix your sleep though because it's important

Hi Fringe,

Welcome to the 7-day, 7-part guide to regaining control over your own eyes.

A decade ago I wore -4.00 glasses and was told I needed -5.00.

I had high myopia. I had frequent headaches, tired-feeling eyes, and terrible night vision. And yet today I'm at a natural 20/20, no surgery, no lenses—and no more headaches or other issues. It took me a long time to figure out how to get here. Since learning the truth about myopia, though, I've helped literally thousands of people recover their eyesight, and today the system is (almost) bulletproof.

Will this method of natural myopia control work for you? That depends 100% on you. This is not a quick fix. There is no pill to swallow, no magical lenses to slap on. Those things are what got your eyes in trouble in the first place. Getting your eyesight back is going to take work.

First you’ll need to learn how your eyes function. Then, with that knowledge, you’ll be able to safely lower your diopter needs, lessen screen time, and increase the use of your distance vision, all to reverse your myopia.

The 7-day course contents:

Today: The Truth About Myopia: How your eye works

Day 2: Glasses and the Insidious Ways They Modify Your Eyes (and possibly screw them up forever)

Day 3: How to Create Your Own Myopia Testing Lab (for about 10 cents)

Day 4: The Diopter Numbers Tell a Secret Story (and here's how to decode it)

Day 5: The Single Worst Thing You've Been Doing with Your Eyes, Every Single Day

Day 6: Tips and Tricks for Better Eyesight

Day 7: More to Learn: Choosing your future path to 20/20

So if you really want to reverse your myopia, make these next seven days the most important days for your eyesight. If you read every single one of the e-mails carefully, you'll know more about your eyes and myopia than most licensed optometry professionals do.

Don't put it off. It's just seven e-mails in seven days. Better eyesight awaits. Ready to get started?

[Day 1/7] The Truth About Myopia: How your eye works

Understanding Myopia

Before you can go about improving your eyesight, you first have to know how your eyes work. This is the only way to understand how you got duped by all those mainstream optometrists. To do this, we’re going to have to dip into clinical science, so just bear with me for a moment.

Myopia happens in two stages, the first of which is referred to as "pseudomyopia." Pseudomyopia refers to a passing spasm in the eye’s muscles that control focus.

There's a circular muscle in your eye that controls the lens and changes shape to give you clear vision at both near and far distances. This is the "ciliary" muscle. When you look at something far away the muscle is relaxed, and when you look at something near the muscle contracts. The closer the point of focus, the greater the contraction in this muscle.

For almost everybody, the first sign of myopia is just a spasm of the ciliary muscle from too much close-up focusing. It's temporary. The muscle locks up and the lens gets temporarily stuck in the "close-up" mode. For this reason, you can’t see distances clearly. This is pseudomyopia—but you won’t need glasses to treat this.

Don’t just take my word for it, though. Let’s look at a study from the American Academy of Optometry, published back in 1998 and titled, “Vision Therapy to Reduce Abnormal Nearwork-Induced Transient Myopia.”

The study followed five subjects with abnormal nearwork-induced transient myopia (ANITM) for 7 to 10 weeks as they received vision therapy that utilized tools such as lens flippers and Hart charts. ANITM is a “transient distance blur that is correlated with a transient pseudomyopic shift in…distance refraction” after short periods of nearwork.

Recordings of subjects’ ANITM were taken before and after vision therapy with a Canon R-1 auto refractor, and daily logs were also kept. The study reports that “after therapy, there was marked reduction of symptoms and considerable improvement in clinical accommodative facility measures, as well as improvement in the objective findings.”

So now that you know vision therapy can work, here are two things we are going to do:

1. Stop the progression of your myopia.

2. Reverse your myopia.

Stopping the progression of your myopia is important because increased myopia means higher risk of lattice degeneration (a symptom of which is bright light spots, or "floaters”—a bad sign), retinal detachment, macular degeneration, and a whole lot of other serious eye problems. But that’s only half the battle. What you’re really here to do is improve your eyesight. And how do I do that? you may ask. Well, you’ll need to keep reading these e-mails to find out. Remember, I warned you this was going to take work. There’s no quick fix for better eyesight.

Before I leave you, though, I want to provide you with one more thing. Earlier I gave you a brief look into how myopia starts, but for the complete 101 on how your eye works and how myopia happens, click http://mailing.endmyopia.org/l/By6lN3cMjfKJCQWGfrz4Lg/94LG9763bckK21sUpdCo7HVw/6MbfnEyp2y0SxCKd3nim6Q. This link has everything you need to know about your eyesight and myopia. Please, read it.

At the bottom of the linked page are other links to more studies. Careful, its heady stuff, but if you really want to dig in to what science knows about myopia today, it's worth at least taking a look at.

→ Tomorrow, let's look at how you can find clinical studies about myopia on Google, about how your myopia started, and lots more to get you started working on your eyes!

Talk to you then,

- Jake Steiner

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>>96345

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>>96323

>comparing a critical limb loss that requires major surgery and/or expensive prosthetics, with getting glasses

Your fallacy game is pitiful

>>96348

Mundane get the fuck out, we're a wizard board, we actually heal ourselves we don't use crutches. A prosthetic limb, a metal joint, fake teeth, fillings, glasses, hormones, drugs, etc. are not real fixes. I did not make a false equivalence and I am not claiming losing a limb is the same as losing eyes. Actually, you know what, if I had a choice between losing an eye vs losing a limb I'd keep the eye. Eyes are definitely more important. But anyways, fuck that choice.

Fucking glasses shill.

"Faggotpill me on faggotry." Faggot

You are all the same fucking person hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

>>96356

>>96342

Is this similar to the Bates Method?

I've heard fasting helps improve vision before.

If you don't fast, at least stay away from pork and other unclean foods. Maybe try going vegan/vegetarian? https://www.ucg.org/bible-study-tools/booklets/what-does-the-bible-teach-about-clean-and-unclean-meats/infographic-which

>>96349

>IDs activate

>most of the thread is you replying to yourself and shilling your endmyopia scam

top kek should have magicked yourself extra brain cells instead

>>96498

Tried it, it never worked for me. I experience far greater health on a diet of meat where the meat is consumed in the morning and powers me through the day and I eat little else during the day.

>>96328

This tbh, screens make your eyes can't see well in a distance since your focus is to near objects.

I basically see double when I look in the distance now.

feels bad man.

Hi Fringe,

Yesterday we started talking about how myopia happens, what causes it. Now if you read that link I gave you, the myopia 101 found here, then you probably noticed there is a bit more to it than what I mentioned yesterday. That’s what we will get into today.

http://endmyopia.org/end-myopia-home/

Do you remember when I said that you wouldn’t need glasses to treat pseudomyopia? Well you don’t, but that is usually how it’s treated.

Your natural eye is the world's most sophisticated "auto-focus" mechanism, instantaneously adjusting focus depending on whether you look at something up close, farther away, or very far away. That circular muscle is constantly readjusting to correctly focus light on your retina. It's an amazing system with its constant and instant adjustment of focus.

Glasses, on the other hand, are not so amazing. Your eyes change focal planes dynamically, but glasses do it statically. There is only one adjustment your glasses make, and that goes by whatever diopter number you have. So glasses do move the light focus (focal plane) inside your eye, just like your natural eye does, but they only do it for one fixed distance.

If you're nearsighted, the lenses are called "minus" lenses. They move the light farther back inside your eye. This compensates for the focusing muscle spasm, but as your eyes adapt to the lenses, they grow longer. This is a big topic, the "axial elongation" of your eyeball. Medical science has written hundreds of thousands of pages of studies on this topic.

I'll break it down for you. Your eye isn't this static, dumb thing like the optometrist may make it seem with their static lens corrections. Rather—and hang on to your seat for this—your eye grows based on what you see around you.

When you were a baby, you were most likely farsighted (and you probably had astigmatism, too). Then your eye adjusted in length specifically based on its environmental input. It was your vision that determined the axial length of your eyeball (though it's pretty consistent for most people). It's really important to understand that your eye doesn't act independently of the environment.

What you see is truly what you get.

So if you’ve ever wondered what causes your prescription to change year after year, this is it. Medical science actually has a word for your ever-increasing myopia: lens-induced myopia (as in, caused by the lenses you wear).

This has been studied over and over, probably in an attempt to find a species for which this doesn't hold true. But any animal’s eye that works like ours tends to compensate in the same fashion. Even fish eyes grow longer if minus lenses are put in front of them (don't ask me how they did that). Monkeys (tree shrews?), baby chickens (chicks!), anything and everything gets egg-shaped eyes when minus lenses are used.

If that seems hard to believe, go to Google Scholar (where you can search medical literature) and type in any of the number of terms I’ve introduced you to: pseudomyopia, axial elongation, lens-induced myopia, etc.

https://scholar.google.ca/

But wait a minute. If there are so many studies about this, then why are you still being sold lenses? Well, you’re being sold lenses for the same reason I don’t want you running off to the optometrist with all this new information to demand answers: There is not some new patented contraption to sell, no branded aspect.

My method isn't going to excite shareholders. It's not going to make profits for some huge corporation, so a lot of the sales-focused outlets aren't exactly going to have a lot of incentive to teach, learn, and practice holistic methods for vision health.

Little side note: I used to be pretty outspoken against mainstream optometrists, mostly because I looked at them as the enemy. They got me into glasses instead of telling me about prevention. They made a huge profit while my eyes kept getting worse. I was angry about this for many years.

You know what, though? Optometrists are not the enemy at all. They give (most) people what they want: immediate clear vision, regardless of the consequences. You, though, you care about those consequences. So, let’s get back to your eyes.

You now know the rudiments of how the eye works and how myopia occurs. To break it down in simple terms, though, here are the basic stages of myopia:

1. Your myopia is a muscle spasm. Too much close-up work and the muscle gets "locked up" in close-up mode. Distance vision gets slightly blurry.

2. Minus lenses are offered as therapy. They move the light farther back in the eye, compensating for the muscle spasm (but not fixing it).

3. The minus lenses cause the eyes to grow longer. Now that correction is no longer strong enough (after about a year in the beginning, on average). A higher correction is needed to move the light back farther in the longer eye.

Now do you see why I developed my method as an alternative to mainstream optometry? Those glasses you’re wearing are only contributing to the problem, not solving it.

The single biggest argument made by retail optometry is that the cause of progressive myopia, axial length of your eyeball, is outside of your control. That's simply not true at all, nothing more than a convenient lie to sell you more glasses. Here, look at this bit of clinical research.

http://endmyopia.org/eyes-in-various-species-can-shorten-to-compensate-for-myopic-defocus/

Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

→ Tomorrow we are going to look at how to measure your own eyesight. This is a big step. Once you know how to measure it yourself, you’ll be able to understand your lens correction needs much better, and you’ll also be able to quantify your daily eye strain.

See you tomorrow!

Cheers,

- Jake Steiner

Hi Fringe,

Welcome back.

Ready to learn about measuring your eyesight? It's heady stuff. After this e-mail, you'll never look at your local optic shop the same again.

Here’s the thing: If you can measure, you can quantify; if you can measure, you can start to know what's what; if you can measure, you can know what you really need, and what's probably way too much correction.

There's a brilliant and super simple way to measure your own eyesight, too, and it’s with a ten cent ruler. I'll show you how to do it right here.

(If you want to get a bit more serious about your measurements, you can print out an eye chart and order a test lens kit online for a hundred bucks. But even without those, you can figure out your exact diopters with just that ten cent ruler.)

WARNING: Don't go buying reduced diopter glasses without fully understanding what you're doing. I'm not giving you prescription advice. I'm not offering medical advice. I'm simply teaching you about biology and optics.

Now back to that ruler and how to measure.

A flexible measuring tape is actually best—you know, the kind that rolls up (usually sold cheaply at fabric stores or on Amazon). You’ll need a ruler or tape measure to be able to measure the distance from your eye to a page (or screen).

Here's how you take the measurement:

1. Take off your glasses.

2. Look at your screen or a book (printed pages are best).

3. Start with your face up quite close, where the text is perfectly clear, and then slowly move back until it is just the tiniest bit blurry. You want to stop at the point where the text stops being totally sharp. Any noticeable change in sharpness and that's your distance.

4. Record the distance between your eyes and the page (or screen) in centimeters.

Now get ready for the thing that blew my mind when I first learned about it.

A diopter (the number that defines the strength of your glasses) is just a unit of measurement of inverse meters. Get it? A diopter converts directly to a specific distance (as in the centimeters you recorded from your point of clear sight distance to blurriness). It really is shockingly simple, like a lot of the things you'll learn from me. However far you can see before the “blur” converts directly to how many diopters you need for "perfect" distance vision.

Are you still not completely with me? Let's use an example:

Let's say your glasses are -4.50. This number was obtained at the optometrist’s with you sitting in the chair under the dimmed lights with and all the fancy gear and the smoke and mirrors. There, it seemed impossible for you to figure out this number on your own. But now you realize that -4.50 diopters is just another way of saying "22 centimeters till blurriness."

This means that if the text you see on the page becomes even the tiniest bit blurry at 22 centimeters, then you need -4.50 diopters to see the eye chart clearly past the 20/20 line.

That's it. Nothing complicated about it. Take that in for a moment.

To help you convert your centimeters into diopters, I’ve created a handy calculator. Before I give you the link to it though, a word of warning: Your results will possibly be surprising. Your measurements might result in a diopter correction different than the one you received at the optometrist’s.

Here is how you convert your centimeter result to diopters, using my calculator.

http://endmyopia.org/focal-calculator/calc.html

This will work for you if you have the most common type of myopia (strain and stimulus). If you have a more complex diagnosis from an ophthalmologist—any kind of actual eye disease—then that's a different topic and should be monitored by a doctor.

You may be wondering how the ruler can work the way an optometrist’s tools do and yet still give you a different result. Simply put, the optometrist most likely gave you more diopters than you actually need most of the time. They tested you in a dark room and gave you the absolute maximum diopter correction. They didn’t account for how your eyesight may vary throughout the day. It also depends how long ago you received your previous glasses and how your eyes have changed.

This will all make sense once you try measuring and you read through the next few e-mails.

This is one of the first real steps. Take it and you'll feel compelled to go on to get your eyesight back. And just to make sure you do, I’m going to leave you with a bit of homework:

Measure your left and right eye. Do it in the morning, before you start work, and in front of a screen. Do it again at midday and once again in the evening.

Be sure to write down your results. You'll need them tomorrow (when I show you how those numbers tell the future of your eyesight).

Here's an example of how your results should look:

Morning: Left: 22 cm; Right: 26 cm

Midday: Left: 21 cm; Right: 25 cm

Evening: Left: 19 cm; Right: 22 cm

Remember that these are just examples, and how much the numbers change says a lot about how you are using your eyes and where the problems might lie.

We'll get to that tomorrow!

Cheers,

- Jake Steiner

(I am not copying over all the formatting anymore, I don't got time for that.)

>>96444

I don't think so, he says it's not, but I'll see over the next 4 days as I get the rest of the emails I guess.

>>96527

So how do you gain the long eye focus and how long does it take to correct it?

>>96534

I'm still waiting on Jake to send me the rest of his stuff :/

Hi Fringe,

Yesterday I gave you some homework, so right now you probably have a bunch of numbers you have no idea what to do with. First, let me just tell you that these numbers are vital. They tell us almost everything we need to know about eye strain, where you need to apply habit changes, and what kind of lens correction your eyes actually need in order to feel better. Powerful knowledge is hiding in those numbers.

Here's a quick primer on how to interpret them:

First, you've got morning vs. midday vs. late day/evening. This shows you a range of distances. I want you to think back to the second e-mail, because it is important here that you understand your eyesight is not static. I wish there was a double bold function. Re-read that! Eyesight—not static. Your eyes change in terms of “degrees” of myopia throughout a single day.

What's going on here?

Well, I won't flog the optometrist's dead horse too much, but that single measurement obtained in the darkened room was wrong. The easiest "fix" for your myopia is just to give you as much correction as you can possibly tolerate. It's not a great idea, but then neither is a drive-through burger joint.

But now back to those numbers. The way they change gives you clues as to where the strain that contributes to your worsening eyesight is coming from. Let's use an example to illustrate this, and let's use…me.

I too used to be quite myopic. I have my old measurement logs (by the way, do keep logs; they contain powerful information you’ll want long term). Here is one of my mornings from 2005:

L: 32 cm; R: 36 cm

http://endmyopia.org/focal-calculator/calc.html

If you use the calculator (you're welcome), you’ll get the following diopter results: -3 and -2.75. Can you guess what my actual prescription was back then (yes, do keep a log!)? It was -2.75 for both eyes.

Almost perfect, but it was about time to reduce it by 0.25. Now you may remember that I told you I used to wear -4.00 glasses, so by this point I was already well on my way to a lower prescription. And my progress at this point was actually greater than it may seem. That -4.00 prescription when I first began my journey? It was 0.75 diopters too low.

Why am I telling you all this? Well, the first important thing to understand here is that your prescription is relative. You need to understand your eyes and what prescription they actually need. But for now, let’s get back to my results.

My morning measurements were L: 32 cm and R: 36 cm.

By midday, my measurements were L: 30 cm and R: 35 cm.

The numbers went down. What does that mean? It means I could see less well by the middle of the day than I could in the morning. That's strange, right? And you might be experiencing something similar too; it's the most common type of centimeter curve (yes, these descriptions are basically my own inventions since the mainstream just sells you more glasses).

In the evening my measurements were L: 28 cm and R: 32 cm.

Ouch! 28 cm equals a -3.50 prescription. I just went up a half diopter, from -3.00 to -3.50, in the course of a single day. That's not good! But can you guess what the measurement was the following morning? It was back to 32 cm. What is going on here?

It’s eye strain. Remember the ciliary (focusing) muscle? It's not happy by the end of the day. It's getting "stuck" in close-up mode, and that's really affecting my eyesight. But at night, when you go to sleep, the ciliary muscle relaxes, and then the morning is like a reset, with everything working as it should.

Here's what should really be opening your proverbial eyes. There's a lot going on here, and with just some Jake knowledge to help you out, you can measure your diopters objectively. You can quite literally quantify your eye strain with cold, hard, numbers. Its powerful stuff.

So now that you know this, what should you do?

1. Keep measuring. Create a reminder to measure a few times a day for the next week. You want to look for trends, such as how your eyesight is on off days with no close-up work, on days with exercise, on days spent in natural daylight, etc. You want to compare your vision in good lighting vs. crappy fluorescent lighting. Just get some numbers! You’ll want them in the future.

2. Read. The more you learn, the better off you’ll be. Take a look at this page on successful natural myopia control and take in as much as you can!

→ Tomorrow we'll talk about the dark specter of axial elongation, which is basically the one thing you really want to avoid. It's the number one piece of the progressive myopia puzzle, and the thing that ends up causing all sorts of retinal problems down the road. I’ll also let you in on the single worst thing you could be doing for your eyes—the one thing you really don’t want to do at all, ever. It really is must-read territory.

See you tomorrow!

Cheers,

- Jake Steiner

http://endmyopia.org/success/

Hi Fringe,

Before I give you the giant reveal I promised yesterday—the one thing you really don't want to be doing with your eyes—we need to go back to axial elongation. I know, I’m terrible. But just bear with me for a moment. You need to understand why this one thing is so bad.

Axial elongation happens due to what's often called "hyperopic defocus." You are overprescribed by default (the dark room, the absolute maximum prescription being applied, which is too strong for regular daylight and average use) and you wear your distance glasses a good majority of the time. None of this is good for your eyes.

If you were wearing the perfect amount of correction just while looking at a distance, with zero focusing muscle spasm, your glasses wouldn't increase your myopia. But that's hardly ever the case, hence this bit of science:

“If the eye length increases more slowly than does the focal length, the focal plane will be behind the retina, creating hyperopic defocus on the retina. The same occurs if one puts a negative lens over the eye.

To regain sharp focus, the retina needs to be displaced backward to where the image is. This is done in two ways: the eye is lengthened by increasing the rate of growth or of remodeling of the sclera at the posterior pole of the eye (Gentle and McBrien, 1999; Nickla et al., 1997), and the retina is pulled back within the eye by the thinning of the choroid, the vascular layer between the retina and sclera (Figure 2B; Wallman et al., 1995; Wildsoet and Wallman, 1995); once distant images are again focused on the retina (emmetropia), both the rate of ocular elongation and the choroid thickness return to normal."

This type of detail makes 80% of my clients sleepy and leaves the remaining 20% wanting more.

If you're in the 20%, look at the ever growing moypia science and studies section of the blog.

http://endmyopia.org/and-then-there-was-science/

A word of warning—it gets deep quickly in those articles. They are optional reading.

So, axial elongation. I told you earlier that this was a big topic. A longer eyeball equals greater myopia, and it’s the root of all sorts of other problems. (In case you were wondering, three diopters equals about 1 millimeter in eyeball growth.) Suffice to say, it's not ideal to have your eye growing longer in this lens glass house. This is also basically how your eyes get "addicted" to prescriptions.

Now I want to take a moment here to say that not all optometrists are bad. While most do end up giving you glasses that are too strong and recommending more year after year, they are just giving you what the majority of people want: immediate clear vision.

There are lots of cool optometrists, though, who'll talk to you about other options. You probably won’t find them in cheap chain store optic shops, but they're out there. They might not have quite the powerful method I have here, but they're on the right track. They give you only the strength of glasses you really need. And if you find a really progressive optometrist, they may even give you a reduced diopter correction for computer use. (If you do find one of these, hang on to them; they're not easy to find and are so great to have on your side!)

Now back to that big reveal. After reading everything you just did, can you guess what it is?

The single worst thing, what you really don't want to be doing at all, ever, is wearing your full-distance correcting prescription while looking at a screen 60 cm from your eyes.

That's the worst of all the things you are doing right now to mess up your eyes.

Remember when we talked about how the eye changes its actual physical shape based on what you see? Well, this is the stimulus that drives the whole narrative of myopia vs. healthy eyes. The only thing that can fix your vision, that can stop the myopia, is understanding and adjusting that stimulus. The stimulus, short version, is all about where the light focuses in your eye.

What glasses do is just “treat” that ciliary muscle spasm we talked about by ignoring it, by bypassing it with a pair of focal-plane-moving lenses. Putting on glasses just delays the problem, and what’s more, it makes everything worse.

If this is still making your head spin a bit, go back to the site and check the top link on "how myopia happens". Because once you understand the premises, actually fixing your eyes is really simple. I have clients in their 80s, even in their 90s, who have improved their vision. It's not rocket science.

So where do you go from here?

First things first: Don’t go without your glasses. There’s no benefit in that. You can and should wear your glasses for distance vision. You just don't want to wear a lens that is meant to let you see clearly far away while you are focused up close. That focal plane change is huge, and it's a direct stimulus for axial elongation.

What you should do, if your current prescription is less than -2.00 diopters, is stop wearing your glasses for close-up viewing, starting right now.

If your current prescription is more than -2.00 diopters (easy to test: if you can't see your screen, and also your centimeter results), then it's time to start thinking about a reduced prescription for close-up viewing.

One way you can "test" this is if you wear contact lenses.

You can buy reading glasses at a convenience store. Those are for farsighted eyes, the opposite of your myopia. They are "plus" lenses. Every diopter of plus cancels out one diopter of minus. You can actually experiment right in the store. Just grab a magazine and a +1.50 and see how far you can hold it from your eyes and still read without much blurriness. Maybe you need a +2.00, maybe a +1.00. It all depends on your average viewing distance and whether your current prescription is over or under prescribed.

You can then wear those plus lenses over your contacts while working to enjoy much less focal plane change. You'll start to feel exactly what I'm talking about after you stop doing full minus for close-up work.

At first it might feel a bit strange (best not to get the cheapest possible plus—poor lens quality manifests as feeling a bit "funny"). Just wear them right when you start doing any close-up work and keep the close-up times short. Much of your vision actually happens in the visual cortex of your brain. That part doesn't expect focal plane changes, and it takes some time to adjust.

Ideally, you'd use a weekend for this experiment and give yourself a bit of time.

I'll tell you this: If you don't wear a full minus prescription for close-up viewing for four weeks, and then wear it, you'll get nauseous. You'll get dizzy and sick if you try to wear those glasses for a full day of close-up viewing after a month of not doing it.

Why? Quite simply, your brain (the visual cortex) will reject the minus.

The only reason you can tolerate it today is because you have slowly built up to this point over years and years. It's terribly bad for your eyes, and if you "detox" from the full minus for close-up work for a month, you'll know what I'm talking about.

So what now? Well, there’s still quite a bit to learn, but I think your head is stuffed enough for today, so don’t kill me if I say “until tomorrow.”

→ Tomorrow, what you absolutely do and *don't* want to do, while reading or using your computer screen. And yes, I will give you specific, tangible recommendations!

Talk to you then. ;-)

- Jake Steiner

>half my thread has disappeared into thin air

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE–

Apparently Jake Steiner was on a show with Wim Hof and also some guy who had some stuff to say about Natural Dentistry.

http://endmyopia.org/daniel-vitalis-show-the-jake-steiner-interview/

>>97060

http://traffic.libsyn.com/rewildyourself/ReWild_Yourself__Podcast_96_Jake_Steiner.mp3

go to opthalmologist you fucking moron XD

>>96689

jews