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"to wear sunglasses that can filter both UV and blue light" But isn't this bad with other consequences? I thought the lack of blue/violet light was the cause o

"to wear sunglasses that can filter both UV and blue light" But isn't this bad with other consequences? I thought the lack of blue/violet light was the cause of myopia? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5233810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5233810/

ectospheno 8y ago
VSP basically owns TechShield Blue. Other manufacturers have competing products but they are all pretty horrible. The cynic in me wonders if the researchers have any ties to VSP.
derefr 8y ago
You can't develop myopia or hyperopia after your eyes/skull/orbital muscles are done growing. So this suggestion probably applies only to adults. Keep in mind that this is age-related macular degeneration. Your photoreceptor cells are protected by the α-tocopherol until "a person's 50s or 60s." You wouldn't need any prophylactic interventions until then.
- niceperson 8y ago
  >You can't develop myopia or hyperopia after your eyes/skull/orbital muscles are done growing. Do you have a source for that? Would the inverse also be true?
  - derefr 8y ago
    I don't know about a source—a medical textbook? Those conditions are explicitly caused by the eye being squished out of the "proper" shape for focusing light by the way the skull and extraocular muscles end up developing. I suppose you could develop myopia later in life as a result of inflammation of the extraocular muscles (orbital myositis), but this would be 1. temporary, and 2. not treated as its own disease, but rather as a symptom.
- graeme 8y ago
  Interesting. My myopia worsened a bit from ages 22-27 or so. Does that mean my skull and muscles were changing still?
  - UlisesAC4 8y ago
    Actually yes. Doctors have told me that I should wait til 25 to see If I am candidate to eye laser operation because that is the average age where people stop developing his muscle eyes.

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"to wear sunglasses that can filter both UV and blue light" But isn't this bad with other consequences? I thought the lack of blue/violet light was the cause o

by gregcrv 8y ago

ectospheno 8y ago
VSP basically owns TechShield Blue. Other manufacturers have competing products but they are all pretty horrible. The cynic in me wonders if the researchers have any ties to VSP.
derefr 8y ago
You can't develop myopia or hyperopia after your eyes/skull/orbital muscles are done growing. So this suggestion probably applies only to adults. Keep in mind that this is age-related macular degeneration. Your photoreceptor cells are protected by the α-tocopherol until "a person's 50s or 60s." You wouldn't need any prophylactic interventions until then.
- niceperson 8y ago
  >You can't develop myopia or hyperopia after your eyes/skull/orbital muscles are done growing. Do you have a source for that? Would the inverse also be true?
  - derefr 8y ago
    I don't know about a source—a medical textbook? Those conditions are explicitly caused by the eye being squished out of the "proper" shape for focusing light by the way the skull and extraocular muscles end up developing. I suppose you could develop myopia later in life as a result of inflammation of the extraocular muscles (orbital myositis), but this would be 1. temporary, and 2. not treated as its own disease, but rather as a symptom.
- graeme 8y ago
  Interesting. My myopia worsened a bit from ages 22-27 or so. Does that mean my skull and muscles were changing still?
  - UlisesAC4 8y ago
    Actually yes. Doctors have told me that I should wait til 25 to see If I am candidate to eye laser operation because that is the average age where people stop developing his muscle eyes.