Such_Saturation
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Yeah but how is +glass training able to solve astigmatism?@Such_Saturation
Corneal diseases ike Keratoconus are a form of atrophic, deformed and degenerated corneal tissue. Also what is called "regular astigmatism" is often just a milder and none-progressive variant of such a pathology. So those corneas are not just deformed in an angular, optical sense, but the corneal tisue is abnormal.
It is thought by some physisicans and researchers that, instead of transplantation, the dieseased cornea can be modified or restored by several means. Some just damage the cornea in a controlled way, hoping to modulate the cornea by it's own repair-means (not nlike dermaneedling for skin in fact). Others use UV/Riboflavin-Crosslinking which stiffens the cornea but to me seems crude and substituting one pathological form of tissue wit another.
Smarter researchers look into the biochemical / cytokine /mmp / growth factor and what not direction, trying to modulate the corneal tissue by exogenous steroids, growth fctors and so forth ... it's a rather new field.
Keratoconus eye-drops reshape cornea
I think we who are privy to Peat's views would consider this approach as promising. IF they chose the right substances and the rationale behind it is correct. Probably T3 and some anabolic, pro-metabolism, even androgenic steroids would be able to modify the cornea and maybe even achieve normalizing of the tissue.
@Ella is the guru in that field.