[krenzo]

There's a husband and wife team of optical scientists who have been studying myopia and theorize that high contrast across the retina signals the eye to elongate which leads to myopia. "Their big breakthrough in understanding myopia occurred in 2008 when they studied a particular group of people who had a genetic form of myopia that’s very severe. They discovered a gene mutation that was causing the myopia." As a result, they patented glasses that blur your peripheral vision, and a trial has shown them to be more than 50% effective at reducing myopia.

https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/glasses-stop-myopia-ar...

https://bjo.bmj.com/content/bjophthalmol/107/11/1709.full.pd...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11493781B2/

[aredox]

So, to avoid having a blurry vision and having to wear glasses, their solution is to wear glasses that blur your vision?

That's not a dig at them; more like life having a laugh at us.

[resolutebat]

These are now commercially available and my kids wear them. It's a basically invisible pattern of dots, not a visible blur, and both have stopped the progression of their myopia in their tracks.

https://www.essilor.com/au-en/products/stellest/

[skeaker]

I imagine it's like wearing a cast. To fix your broken arm that can't be used, you need to wear a cast that prevents your arm from being used.

[beaugunderson]

I've been using a Chrome extension with anti-myopic blur based on this principle:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/refractify-myopic-d...

[lolitan]

is it any good?