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Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Re: Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Post by xwdv »

digikata wrote: post #94
frankohn wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The predisposition to myopia is genetic but one becomes myopic due to an environmental factor: the lack of exposure to sunlight. It is because of the lack to regular exposure to sunlight that people who study and spend a lot of time in homes can develop myopia if they are genetically predisposed. Focusing on nearby objects does not lead to myopia. Doing gymnastics with the eyes has no effect. Likewise, using under-si…

This reminds me of archetypal idyllic images of ancient Greek education where a philosopher is teaching a group of students in an outdoor amphitheater. Maybe we need to redesign our schools to be outdoor, or at least with indoor structures with generous amounts of natural lighting.

God no, UV radiation is a thing.

Re: Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Post by novok »

digikata wrote: post #94
frankohn wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The predisposition to myopia is genetic but one becomes myopic due to an environmental factor: the lack of exposure to sunlight. It is because of the lack to regular exposure to sunlight that people who study and spend a lot of time in homes can develop myopia if they are genetically predisposed. Focusing on nearby objects does not lead to myopia. Doing gymnastics with the eyes has no effect. Likewise, using under-si…

This reminds me of archetypal idyllic images of ancient Greek education where a philosopher is teaching a group of students in an outdoor amphitheater. Maybe we need to redesign our schools to be outdoor, or at least with indoor structures with generous amounts of natural lighting.

That is only possible in a very small climate band.

Maybe just have a ton of natural light in your buildings, energy conservation be dammed?

It's harder now because of screens general inability to work well in daylight, although that might be a plus in most schools.

Re: Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Post by young_unixer »

himinlomax wrote: post #95
jdtang13 wrote: post #46

The "myopia is purely genetic" zeitgeist has been continually shoved down all of our throats in the west. Meanwhile, studies from Taiwan, Japan, and Korea show that myopia truly has an environmental component to it, e.g. childhood eyestrain and video games. It's also undeniable that myopia manifests more in middle class workers than working class, which indicates some sort of systematic environmental component. Since…

The currently favored theory is that it's due to a lack of UV light reaching the eye. It's not (just) video games, it's (also) school and generally being indoors instead of out at midday.

Since I learned that excess UV radiation burns the retina, I've started always wearing sunglasses outside. Should I stop?

Re: Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Post by Franciscouzo »

xwdv wrote: post #111
digikata wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of archetypal idyllic images of ancient Greek education where a philosopher is teaching a group of students in an outdoor amphitheater. Maybe we need to redesign our schools to be outdoor, or at least with indoor structures with generous amounts of natural lighting.

God no, UV radiation is a thing.

And sunscreen is also a thing.

Re: Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Post by rmah »

digikata wrote: post #94
frankohn wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The predisposition to myopia is genetic but one becomes myopic due to an environmental factor: the lack of exposure to sunlight. It is because of the lack to regular exposure to sunlight that people who study and spend a lot of time in homes can develop myopia if they are genetically predisposed. Focusing on nearby objects does not lead to myopia. Doing gymnastics with the eyes has no effect. Likewise, using under-si…

This reminds me of archetypal idyllic images of ancient Greek education where a philosopher is teaching a group of students in an outdoor amphitheater. Maybe we need to redesign our schools to be outdoor, or at least with indoor structures with generous amounts of natural lighting.

Outdoor schools were a thing in recent history. It gained a lot of traction about 100 years ago until the 1930's. It was called the "open air school" movement. I think it was started mostly to combat a rise tuberculosis.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-outdoor-schoo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_air_school

Re: Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Post by Darmody »

jonplackett wrote: post #22
nsxwolf wrote: post #10

It's not a great headline. My first reaction was "that's what glasses do".

Yeah I had the exact same response. There needs to be a 'permanently' in there somewhere.

  "Through further clinical trials, it is trying to determine how long the effect lasts after the user wears the device, and how many days in total the user must wear the device to achieve a permanent correction for nearsightedness."
Permanently wouldn't be very accurate either.

Re: Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Post by mathisonturing »

feanaro wrote: post #62
jdtang13 wrote: post #44

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> This is something that has been studied pretty extensively. If it was actually a cure, it'd have been well-proven by now, and we'd all be doing it. Untrue and faulty reasoning. It may have been studied extensively on biased populations, or the research may not have been funded adequately. Anyways, this is part of the "myopia is purely genetic" zeitgeist which is shoved down all of our throats in the west. Meanwhile…

Agreed. I surveyed the existing medical literature on the topic in about 2018 (or was it 2017?) and conclusion was that it is still a very active area of research with a lot of controversy. Anecdotally, I have a low-grade myopia which gets observably worse after a lot of near work or sitting the whole day in front of a computer. I can pretty consistently reverse through the use of print pushing and use of anti-correc…

Slightly off topic, but how do you go about surveying the literature on a particular topic, say myopia or acne.?

Re: Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Post by moneywoes »

lucb1e wrote: post #89
RHSeeger wrote: post #75

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Start by finding an eye doctor that doesn't have a glasses shop attached, imo. Or one that isn't "attached" to such a shop in a way they would profit from it, I guess. Without insulting any doctor in specific, my thought is that making a profit from glasses being sold is likely to impact how likely the doctor is to prescribe new glasses.

> making a profit from glasses being sold is likely to impact how likely the doctor is to prescribe new glasses. And beyond that, following the logic from the recent surgery thread: they see their patients see better. They see all the good cases, where someone walks out more confident and with better sight. Their product helps people. But then so do homeopathic placebos (to a certain (measurable) extent), and that's…

Have a link to the surgery thread?
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