Overall Health & Wellness

Just like the rest of your body, nutrition plays a huge role in maintaining healthy vision. From the surface of your eye to deep in your retina, nutrition impacts every level of vision. Some of the most important nutrients for eye health are zeaxanthin and lutein.

Zeaxanthin and lutein are foundational nutrients essential in protecting and enhancing vision. Zeaxanthin is a carotenoid, which is another word for antioxidant, found in the retina, blood serum, and brain. Zeaxanthin is chosen by the retina to protect central vision. Lutein is another carotenoid that is found in the brain and eyes as well as breast milk and works in conjunction with zeaxanthin but protects peripheral vision.

Zeaxanthin & Lutein In Food:

The body doesn’t make these important nutrients on its own, so we must eat them in order to sustain the amounts we need. Zeaxanthin can be found in brightly colored vegetables like orange bell peppers and paprika peppers. However, it’s scarce in the American diet with the average person getting 0.5-1 mg a day (the recommendation is at least 8 mg a day).Lutein can be found in leafy greens like spinach, kale, and broccoli. While this antioxidant is more prevalent in the diet than zeaxanthin, it can still be difficult to get the amounts necessary to support eye health.

Nutritional Support for Health and Wellness

Even though you may generally be healthy and eat better than the average American, the most important eye-healthy nutrients, zeaxanthin and lutein, are notably scarce in food sources. Even if you eat your share of leafy greens and colorful vegetables, you need to eat 20 ears of corn a day to get the amount of zeaxanthin your eyes need. That's where supplementation comes in.

Supplementation can help fill this all-too-common dietary gap. EyePromise has created a line of eye vitamins that delivers high-quality zeaxanthin and lutein, nothing more and nothing less. This vegetarian and vegan-friendly pair of eye vitamins complements a multi-vitamin while delivering the natural antioxidants in a simple daily dose.

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What Makes EyePromise Different?

Zeaxathin
This critical antioxidant is chosen by the retina to protect central vision. Additionally, zeaxanthin is accumulated in the fovea (center of the retina) 2 times more than lutein. While the eye itself chooses to include more zeaxanthin in its own protection, most eye vitamins choose to match the ratio found in the diet, which is 5 to 1 lutein to zeaxanthin. EyePromise recongnizes the importance and scarcity of zeaxanthin and, therefore, chooses to include 4x more than other products.

Lutein
While zeaxanthin is extremely important, lutein is no scrub. This antioxidant plays an important role in protecting vision from dangerous blue light, and it's been found to help support many other parts of the body.

We know what you’re thinking. “Where’s the proof?” We’ll spare you the long scientific rambling, but here are a few of the clinical results.

It's been shown that taking 8 mg of zeaxanthin can improve visual sharpness and clarity. Read the study!
This research found that 8 mg of zeaxanthin can help people see better while driving at night, even if they're elderly. Read the study!
These researchers discovered that supplementing with dietary zeaxanthin and lutein improves photostress recovery by 5 seconds, meaning it gives you an additional 440 ft. of decision-making while driving 60 mph. Read the study!
Research shows that supplementing with 20+ mg of dietary zeaxanthin and 10+ mg of dietary lutein can increase reaction time by 10%, even in young, healthy adults! Read the study!
Contrast sensitivity and light sensitivity are also improved through supplementation. Read the study!
Another study of young, healthy adults found that high-dose dietary zeaxanthin and lutein supplements can improve contrast sensitivity and other visual functions. Read the study!
Increasing macular pigment with dietary zeaxanthin and lutein supplementation improves visual discomfort. Read the study!