Not diabetic here, but with progressing myopic retinopathy of unclear aetiology. There is mostly random common sense advice on how to prolong one's retina usefu

Not diabetic here, but with progressing myopic retinopathy of unclear aetiology. There is mostly random common sense advice on how to prolong one's retina usefulness, which different doctors mention different pieces of, but the unfortunate and exasperating part is the surprising lack of research. E.g. we still don't know what makes our eyeballs grow or stop, and there's been about two or three original attempts at investigating it (only one with humans last I checked). On the other hand, we do have ample research that disproves or undermines most of the common sense advice (e.g. eye rest every hour, eye exercise, keeping fit, etc). Conflicting schools of traditional medicine do not help as well: you could get the opposite opinion on laser treatment (for retina) and scleroplasty depending on whether the specialist is from the US or Europe. My hope is platforms like HealthKit will enable massive new research into this. Alternatively, cyber-eyes.