EndMyopia is an opinionated DIY/biohacking discussion of vision therapy. There's an open fork at https://reducedlens.org.
Slow and often expensive vision therapy for myopia helps some people, but not everyone, possibly due to genetic and neuroplasticity differences, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Nevertheless, many VT principles can help children whose eyes and brains are still developing. COVD, the professional association has existed for 40 years, https://www.covd.org/page/About_Us
The College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) is a non-profit, international membership association of eye care professionals including optometrists, optometry students, and vision therapists. Established in 1970, COVD provides board certification for optometrists and vision therapists who are prepared to offer state-of-the-art services in Behavioral and developmental vision care, Vision therapy, Neuro-optometric rehabilitation.
With the advent of affordable prescription glasses being sold online by the same lens manufacturers that sell to expensive retail optometrists, it's now possible to DIY your own regime for under-correction of myopia. But it takes time, patience and care with constant re-measurements to track progress and adjust the lens strength. Even then, it doesn't work for everyone. When it works, it borders on the miraculous.
They have a large number of testimonials from people who have significantly reduced their prescriptions, as well as with optometrists trying to do the same for their patients. I can't speak from experience, but it's something I want to investigate for myself.
Our bodies are much better at adapting to our environments than we realize. There are parallels with soft modern diets and jaws and teeth that don't receive enough stimulus to develop properly. We're only starting to understand the burden of man-made disease.
