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by lifechoseme123 1001 days ago
My optometrist was quite skeptical of various claims about blue light & blue light blocking glasses, for example...
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The blue blocking lens addition that's sold for regular glasses is very dumb, your optometrist was correct. First, you want blue light during the day so why would you want to have that on glasses you wear all day? And two, they don't block nearly enough blue light to make a difference at night. You need the very orange tinted safety glasses for that. Those absolutely do work.
in the USA, medical guild members are trained to ignore non-guild member theory from the very first year of specialization IMHO.. secondly, there are legal consequences for those that do not adhere to guild doctrine, or could be exposed to legal threat.. IMHO medical guild information is conservative often, but surpasses simple science when pressed in controversy.
My optometrist was quite skeptical of that anyone can cure their myopia. Yet I’m doing exactly that with measured improvement.
Myopia is the cornea slowly becoming football shaped instead of round. While the effects can be lessened through various methods, the myopia will indeed eventually overcome such methods.

Can’t make a football into a soccer ball without surgery.

Ahem ahem, that is the theory, yes. Not what I and many others are seeing practically. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPIGDSY_xBs
Ophthalmology is not so much /theory/ as over 100 years of study, discourse, research, and practical application.

What you're proposing is /theory/ with few actual studies, research, or practical applications beyond some few people 'trying' something new.

Again, you may be able to lessen the football shaping with various methods. But at the end of the day, the body wants it to be a football, and you want it to be a soccer ball. Guess which of those competitors wins?

I understand what you're saying. I was just stating my practical experience. I'm not arguing anything here. My eyes are healing with visible and measured improvement, and I cannot care less about which theory matches reality, or what any theory out there says about what should and shouldn't happen.
Is that the ancient Chinese way of sleeping with stones on the eyes, to flatten the lenses?
Oh, do tell ...
I've noticed people who start wearing blue blockers can no longer attract a mate..