Use stimulus and strain knowledge to beat myopia.

You already know that glasses aren’t the answer, and that myopia is part strain, part lens-induced. I won’t get into all that again, here.

But what about the alternatives? Eye exercises are nonsense. Bates doesn’t apply to modern lens-induced myopia. Vitamins might make your eye lashes silky smooth, but they won’t fix the eyeball’s axial length or relax your focusing muscle.

There are a few who focus on the glasses. Which, that’s the right start (for amateurs).

But they’re still wrong.

Your eyesight happens where? In your eyes?

No. Your eyesight happens in your visual cortex. It happens in your BRAIN. And even the part of your eyeball that’s receiving the focused beam of light, the retina, is actually not part of the eye – it is part of the brain.

It’s true. Biology fact. Retina, connected by the optic nerve to the cortex, is part of the brain.

So while some guys are obsessing about plus lens therapy or not wearing glasses, they’re still entirely missing the point. The point which is, we have to talk to your brain, your visual cortex, about the problem you’re having.

The problem in part created by glasses, and now fully obscured from the brain by the glasses.

We will deal a lot with diopters, no question. But while some do what seems the same as I do and still get only marginal results, my clients (that’s you, shortly) get real, tangible improvements. Because we (you) get it. Diopters, stimulus, the whole lot of what we’ll cover in the sessions, targets your visual cortex first, and your eyeball second.

I’m the eye guru, lacking a lot of false modesty, because I understand the real problem. I’ll earn the title by teaching it all to you, in simple 20 minute sessions, and leading you to action and better eyesight.

We covered that not many out there know what they’re talking about.

But even if they did, they still wouldn’t get you to better eyesight. Why? Because every one of the (rather few) insightful avenues I ever found, totally forget that .. you also have a life.

You’re not going to quit your job and move up to Jake’s misty mountain top eye retreat ashram. Really, speaking long term, you aren’t even going to spend 10 minutes a day, three months from now, doing an exercise.

That’s why they’d all fail regardless. One has to not just understand the eye, and how to change it, but also how to change the people who have those eyeballs in their heads. (that’s you)

BackTo20/20 assumes that you don’t have time to spare.

I assume that you’ll take 20 minutes to learn for a while, while it’s all new and exciting. I assume that after that time (many many months of testing narrowed that time to about 8 weeks for most people), you’ll probably get distracted by all the other things going on in your life.

So here’s what I did. I know I have an approximate eight week window (give or take, some take it slower and make up for it with a longer attention span).

In that eight weeks I’m going to teach you what I learned in about 620 weeks (or over 10,000 hours, but who’s counting .. and that’s not actually counting the years since, learning from participant experiences, and also the eight months tweaking the program itself).

I’m going to put into eight weeks, in simple 20 minute sessions, a real “guru-level” of insight for you.

The First 30 Lessons

Your problem, the one that isn’t going to go away, is your eyes staring at screens, better part of every day.

Fixing your eyesight, considering that we can’t remove the root cause of it, would seem basically impossible. It’s like you saying “hey Jake, I’m going to keep eating pizza, get me in shape.”

Because it’s such an involved bit of magic (fixing a problem without fixing the problem), we dedicate the better part of 30 sessions to it. You have to absolutely be able to look at screens all day, without your eyes getting worse. And actually, which now verges on the absurd, you want your eyes to get BETTER, while exposed to the problem.

I’ve got all that for you. Yes, keep your office job. Look at screens all day. I’ll still get you better eyesight.

How do we do it?

I’m not going to preach. I’ll teach you things, instead. The what’s, and the why’s. And the how’s. Remember the measurement e-mails? A bit like that. A real, simple, tangible activity, and then ways you will use that to start working your eyes around the strain.

There are guys out there who desperate try to copy the @endmyopia method. You may have read about “plus lens therapy”. Like a monkey stealing your car.

Rather than just beating tools onto rocks, I’ll show the real meaning of things like plus lenses. How focal plane creates the wrong, or the right kind of stimulus. How you test what you need, how you do it, and then how you quantify whether it’s working.

And we’ll always come back around to what really matters. How all these things affect your visual cortex, the brain behind the curtain, pulling all the strings. How we’ll give the right sort of inputs so that your brain makes the right kinds of decisions.

Did you know that your minus lenses completely surpassed the feedback loop that would tell you about eye strain?

All you’ve got left right now is random headaches and neck pain, and dry eyes.

It’s a gag, those glasses you’re wearing. We’ll fix it all, and then you’ll look back and think “gee, this was really all rather simple.” Which makes me less amazing in your future hindsight. Just remember though, part of the whole genius of this is that I not only make it look easy, but I make it be easy (for you).

In 30 sessions you’ll never have to worry about a higher diopter number again.

Next 30 Lessons

The second 30 sessions are all about what you will do, when you no longer have to worry about close-up destroying your eyesight.

By that time you should consider yourself a “guru in training”. It’s all really obvious by now, I’m just filling in the blanks.

We’ll talk a lot about distance vision. How distance vision is the tool to create the stimulus that tells your visual cortex that you need those eyes to provide more distance focus ability. That your eyeballs are possibly too long, and need some axial change.

You won’t just be reading. You’ll experience these things.

You’ll notice double vision, multiple clear images, where before there was only blur. You’ll actually witness your brain adjusting along with your eyes, and having to “recalibrate” your vision. It’s going to be, quite possibly, one of the more amazing experience you’ll have (if you appreciate your body, and pay attention to your senses).

The ballgame will change completely, as you start to use your glasses as a crutch, as a tool to induce stimulus, to get you just enough and make your eyes work for the rest.

And yes, you’ll realize it’s all so shockingly simple, and I’ll have to fend for you to keep giving me some credit. I’ll have to remind you that you came here some months ago (as in, today), and you didn’t know the first thing. You trusted the optometrist, and you believed that your eyes were broken. You were resigned to a life behind glasses.

Everything seems easy in hindsight, easy after you conquered the beast (or just the optometrist).

And you know … sometimes readers give me a hard time about all the 20/20 gains reports I post on endmyopia.

We have thousands and thousands of improvement reports, all the way from high diopter myopia with significant reductions, to low myopia and completed 20/20 results. I’m immensely proud of all participants and every single report tells a personal story of victory, success, taking action, overcoming skepticism and inertia and excuses and procrastination.

I share a few of them with you here to help you get excited. Barely scratching the surface of course, but just think … how cool will it be to add your own success story to the site?

Priceless! (or well … rather there is a price tag if we count my support and this program, but that makes it still aaalmost priceless)

I am still adding things from time to time, to this day. Things you’ll want to try out, things that may keep you motivated. Things that you, the future expert, will be able to make sense of, and experiment with.

For example, I’ve got this somewhat mind blowing activity you HAVE TO experience. It only works at dusk, it only works once you did all the other things, and it works best if you have dusk, and neon lit signs. And it works best if you already had at least two diopter reductions successfully completed.

That’s why it’s in the “extra” sessions, since .. yes, that’s a bit of a specific scenario.

But in that scenario, after you did all sorts of work already, been improving your eyesight, you might be able to get as much as a full diopter of better vision. As in instantly, in a matter of 30 minutes, your eyes “snap” into a whole diopter better vision.

Not fair to bring that up now. All I’m saying is .. this is a whole lot more than just some “Internet course”. This is proper awesome-level stuff.

And remember, it’s all about habit changes. And I’m here to support you all along the way, one reduction at a time.

Index Of Session Topics*

1. * IF YOU (MAY) HAVE PRESBYOPIA
2. THE SECRET(S) TO MASTERING STRAIN AWARENESS
3. IT RULES YOUR DAY: THE CLOSE-UP FOCAL PLANE
4. AMAZING TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING EYESIGHT
5. PITFALLS OF REDUCTIONIST THINKING
6. EASILY MASTER THE EYE CHART
7. INTERPRET YOUR OWN SNELLEN RESULTS
8. STRAIN MINIMIZER: DIFFERENTIAL DIOPTERS
9. WAITING FOR STIMULUS – RETINAL SHAPING
10. ACTIVE FOCUS, KEY TO STIMULUS PUZZLE
11. BETTER EYESIGHT CAN STOP DEPRESSION
12. STRATEGIES FOR ACTIVE FOCUS CONTROL
13. GET OUTSIDE: EASY PLAN
14. YOU DIDN’T KNOW – PERIPHERAL AWARENESS
15. THINGS TO KNOW – MYOPIA AND ALCOHOL
16. YOU’LL LIKE THIS FOCAL PLANE EXERCISE
17. WHAT ABOUT THE FOOD YOU EAT?
18. MIXING IT UP – CLOSE-UP ACTIVITIES
19. LEARN ABOUT VOLUNTARY MUSCLE CONTROL
20. GURU-TOOLS – LEVERAGE THE FORUM
21. NEW WAYS TO LOOK AT CLOSE-UP
22. YOUR ALMOST READY FOR NORMALIZED!
23. EYE REHAB TREATS TIME
24. MYOPIA PREVENTION IN CHILDREN
25. IMPORTANT BREAK & ACTIVITY VARIATIONS
26. USE THIS EASY FOCAL PLANE TIP TODAY
27. THIS IS HOW YOU CHECK CILIARY FUNCTION
28. YES, HERE IS ANOTHER FOCAL-PLANE TRICK
29. THIS IS THE DOUBLE DOWN SESSION
30. NOT WHAT IT SEEMS – SQUINTING AND BLINKING
31. THESE ARE THE FOUNDATIONS FOR PROGRESS
32. JEFF RECOUNTS HIS EXPERIENCE
33. TODAY – GRADUATE TO YOUR FIRST NORMALIZED
34. FOREVER USEFUL NEAR FOCUS KNOW-HOW
35. NORMALIZED CORRECTION (PART II)
36. LUX – UNDERSTANDING BRIGHTNESS
37. CHANGING THE CLOSE-UP GAME
38. NORMALIZED CORRECTION PART III
39. DIFFERENTIAL & NORMALIZED OUTDOORS
40. CALCULATE YOUR TOTAL CLOSE-UP
41. SUNDAY FUNDAY – NO CORRECTION SUNDAYS
42. THE ‘WHAT CAN YOU SEE’ GAME
43. INCREASE YOUR CLOSE-UP TIME
44. TIME FOR SOME PROGRAM REVIEWS
45. KNOW YOUR DISTANCE TOTAL
46. MUST-HAVE ASTIGMATISM CORRECTION ACTIVITY
47. READY FOR A PROGRESS SURVEY?
48. TIME TO REVISIT YOUR CORRECTIONS
49. LET’S START FOCAL PLANE EQUALIZING
50. HERE’S HOW YOU PREVENT BURNOUT
51. COACTIVE DIVERGENCE CORRECTION (I)
52. 4 WAYS TO TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
53. DISTANCE TOTAL (PART 2)
54. AVOID THESE CORRECTION MISTAKES
55. COGNITION AND VELOCITY
56. PREVENTING THE ‘BAD’ PLATEAU
57. THE LOOKING GLASS
58. NEW FOCUS PUSHING WORK
59. THE CENTIMETER IMPROVEMENT’S REAL MEANING
60. AXIAL ELONGATION EXPRESSED IN DIOPTERS
61. INCREMENTAL FOCUS PULLING
62. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ‘LOCK IN’
63. FOCAL POINT TRICKS – RESET BY CORRECTION
64. LEAP IMPROVEMENTS WITH FOCUS PUSHING
65. DIVIDE AND CONQUER
66. THE SNIPER STARE – IMPROVING FOCUS
67. THE FOURTH FOCAL PLANE
68. HOW TO – BREAKS FROM REHAB WORK
69. ASTIGMATISM CORRECTION: BENEFIT OR TROUBLE?
70. ASTIGMATISM & LENS COMPLEXITY
71. ASTIGMATISM REDUCTION (LOW MYOPIA)
72. ADVANCED FOCAL PLANE STIMULUS
73. DIFFERENTIAL CORRECTION TOO HIGH
74. ASTIGMATISM REDUCTION PROCESS (TO -5D)
75. THE PEAK CORRECTION
76. MAXIMIZE PEAK CORRECTION
77. VACATION SERIES PART 1
78. BREAKTHROUGHS (BLUR VS. DOUBLE VISION)
79. NEGATIVE VS. POSITIVE FOCUS PUSHING
80. THE CLOSE-UP FOCAL PLANE LEAP
81. THE DISTANCE FOCAL PLANE LEAP (A)
82. THE DISTANCE FOCAL PLANE LEAP (B)
83. DISTANCE VISION PRACTICES
84. AMBIENT LIGHTING
85. ALTERNATE CORRECTION USE
86. BONUS: POSITIVE CILIARY BALANCE
87. BONUS: BAD SMARTPHONE HABITS?

Initial results vary widely.

It depends on your myopia degree, lens use, age, and many more factors. Many of my clients though get about 20% diopter reduction in the first 90 days, and about 0.75 diopters per year thereafter.

It doesn’t take much effort at all to maintain ongoing improvement.

First you improve quickly as you fix potential dangerous overprescription by your optometrist, and resolve the ciliary muscle spasm you are experiencing right now. That’s a great first step.

Then improvement continues more gradually. The biology has to change, much of our myopia is part of a slow physiological change that happened over many, many years. To reverse axial elongation and other factors, time plays a role.

Glasses. Contact lenses. The lens pusher filling out the pad, selling you more lenses. It’s an option.

LASIK surgery. A quick peak around the Internet, including the U.S. FDA might convince you otherwise. The risks are high, and irreversible. It’s also rather expensive, more so than my program.

Internet courses. Or as I call it, the monkeys trying to steal my car. At best. Or just plain made up schemes that do nothing. By all means go try them, I’m not trying to stop you. Just don’t bring bad habits you learned there, back to the program. Always start fresh, if you come here after being abused by the Internet weirdos.

Bates method. If you’re into medieval things, leaches and whatnot.

Eye acupuncture. Neat stuff actually. Except for recovering your eyesight.

There’s more but I honestly don’t know anything that works. If there was, I’d have assimilated it into my ever growing arsenal of tools to impart to you.

In the first 60 days you’re meant to experience:

1. Two diopter reductions (one for close-up, one for distance)
2. A measurable increase in close-up distance vision (via centimeter measurement)
3. A measurable increase in distance vision (via Snellen eye chart)

Of course your journey isn’t complete in 60 days. But by that time you’ll know whether the program is working for you, and I know whether we work well together. If you don’t have two reduced diopter lenses and measurable improvements in vision in around 60 days, I shouldn’t have your money anyway.

Though not seeing all those improvement milestones very, very rarely happens. Even so, want you to feel reasonably assured that I am taking all the steps to ensure your wellbeing and fairness in everything we do here, together.

We offer a no-questions 60 day refund guarantee, beyond the free trial.

Successful vision improvement is a habit change game. You need a structured approach, but also support and community and tools to get the most out of the process.

This 11 chapter guide work great for a condensed summary of all the tools you need to work on your eyesight.

Keep reaching for it to help refresh you on all the big picture things to focus on. Also use this to help easily organize the 1,200+ articles from the Website into just all the things you need on your journey. Of course you have the structured lessons to rely on. This guide is here for whenever you want to dive into all the DIY resources in a more organized fashion.

Get access to our 60,000 monthly views community forum.

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Get a special ‘VIP’ star with your forum name, access to all the ‘secret’ forum categories unlocked, and (often) feedback from Jake on questions and comments.

Private support forum access, all your questions answered.

Well over 10,000 questions answered by Jake personally so far. Anytime you have questions about your program progress, specific course sessions, diopters, your habits, setup, or anything else program-related: Just ask.

Jake is online 7 days a week, 365 days a year (give or take a few days). Most of the time your question will be answered within 24 hours.

BackTo20/20 is much much more than some ‘course’. You’re fully covered and you’re not alone figuring out your eyesight.

There’s nothing quite like having the first hand insights from fellow members, video and audio, discussing their experience in detail.

Far more than just a course, you get the ongoing accounts of so many others working on their eyesight, just like you. I keep making episodes since it’s such a great tool for long term motivation and the collective learning from shared experience.

That and you’ll often find me making suggestions or offering feedback based on the person’s experience.

I made over 200 pro topic videos over the past decade, explaining so many of the things you’ll encounter on your vision improvement journey. Available only here.

This is going on 20 years of hands-on experience and careful review of things that work, and things that don’t. There is nothing and nobody else out there who has gone this deep into the myopia rabbit hole to figure out eyesight.

It’s obsessive, it’s trying every angle, every trick, every thing anybody has ever brought up that looked promising.

And if you want to watch a whole bunch of videos where I explain how to manage any of the challenges you might encounter along the way, this is the place to find them.

You can pay by credit card, Paypal, or bitcoin. We never directly store any of your payment information.

Program support time is provided as per your selected membership option. You can extend the support time if needed.

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We have a separate add-on option for young children. We do recommend that you have a myopic adult in the immediate family take the adult course first, to gain a first hand understanding of the process. This will make working with your child’s eyes much more effective. And of course we provide tailored support to help you with child myopia related questions, in the support forum.