Your eyes are complex organs which depend on various factors to produce clear vision, but there are ways to maintain eye health and improve your vision.
Common conditions like nutrient deficiencies, cataracts and Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) can affect your eye health and vision.
However, you can minimize or reverse many of these effects with lifestyle changes or dietary supplements, so we will examine the benefits of eye health supplements in this article.
Like most aspects of health, a healthy diet is vital for keeping your eyes healthy and can help reduce your risk of developing eye conditions. Your eyes require many different nutrients to stay healthy, so you should do your best to eat a balanced diet rich in vitamins for the eyes, like vitamins A, E, and C.
However, it’s not always possible to get healthy amounts of essential nutrients through diet alone, so you should consider taking dietary supplements, especially if you’re on a restricted diet. Furthermore, studies show that getting enough essential nutrients (from a healthy diet or vision supplements) can help to prevent a wide range of eye conditions, including:
- Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
- Cataracts (which cause cloudy vision)
- Poor night vision
- Glaucoma
- Dry eyes
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Can Supplements Improve Eye Health and Vision?
Vitamins are widely believed to support eye health and vision – you’ve probably heard that carrots can help you see in the dark – but how much can a simple dietary supplement improve your vision? Although the myth that carrots give you night vision is nothing more than an old wives’ tale (that has its roots in WWII-era propaganda*), taking a supplement for eyesight improvement can have surprising benefits.
A ground-breaking study called the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) found that taking dietary supplements improved eye health and lowered the risk of AMD. Since Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss in the United States – affecting more than 10 million people – it’s fair to say that taking vitamins to help eyesight is a good way of maintaining your eye health and vision.
*The British Ministry of Information published propaganda falsely claiming that carrots could “help you to see in the blackout” to obscure the development of radar technology which helped foil German air raids during World War 2.