Pseudoscientific bogus
I’ve been doing this EndMyopia thing (which is really just reduced-lens therapy) for a little over a year, and it’s been kind of disappointing. Here’s a blow-by-blow: I started off with -2.5 in each eye in March of 2019. I got that prescription in the winter, so this was as summer rolled around, which makes it a lot easier to better your vision. I got my vision down to -2 in a few months. What happened next? Nothing. Literally nothing. Well, almost: “active focus” does technically improve your vision, but it doesn’t improve your prescription. Basically I can read the 20/25 line of an eye chart on a good day, BUT it’s not like the world is in 20/25; I have to really focus on that line, and the rest of the world is blurry (for me, about 20/60). It’s definitely nowhere near the level of being able to throw away your glasses. I do have to give Jake (Mr. EndMyopia) some credit, though: his diagnosis of the causes of modern myopia are right, his solution is just wrong. He presents research, but if you actually read it, it’s kind of a patchwork of studies. None of them directly point to him being right. His studies also rely on animals, which, as it turns out, have a focusing mechanism that allows for this kind of treatment, whereas humans do not. What he doesn’t show you (that I’ve found, at least) is any LONG-TERM study of reduced-lens therapy. They do exist, though, and they show that the additional eye strain resulting from it actually WORSENS myopia! (Here’s the study: Chung K, Mohidin N, O'Leary DJ. Undercorrection of myopia enhances rather than inhibits myopia progression. Vision Res. 2002;42:2555–2559.). Trying to fix your myopia naturally is akin to trying to shorten your height naturally (in most cases, as I’ll explain later). So how are all of these other reviewers getting great results? In much the same way I can read 20/25 without glasses. Their eyes have to work a lot to get those results, and when they are just passively looking through the lens, their world is still blurry. Each step down a prescription is a little sacrifice in clarity, and you don’t notice them individually, but they add up. For example, I thought I had -1 vision, and could read 20/20, but it was in the scenario described above. That’s how the vast majority of EndMyopia users’ experience is, but there is another possibility. Myopia is predominately caused either ONLY by the temporal focusing muscle in the eye locking up or by, as EndMyopia explains, that muscle locking up and causing the eyeball to lengthen. The latter is not reversible, but the former is. I’m only guessing here, but I’m fairly certain people like Jake have the former. Unfortunately for you, the reversible kind is extremely rare, but the irreversible kind is the type most people have. So, unless you have gotten your axial length measured and are sure you have reversible myopia, stay away! Methods like this will not get you back to perfect vision or eliminate your prescription!