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The article can suggest whatever it wants.

If it actually worked long-term, it would be a published paper on PubMed and ophthalmologists would be readily prescribing it to their patients.

I'm not ruling out a temporary improvement in myopia from exercises. Sort of like squinting or putting eye drops in your eyes can temporarily make you less nearsighted.

But if there are positive, long-term effects from simple, harmless exercise (spoiler alert - you can't change the shape of your eye permanently with exercise like you can with a muscle), it would be part of eye doctor's treatment plans everywhere.

But it isn't, so it doesn't pass the smell test.




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