There’s nothing to do, right?
Wrong.
Even though a patient is generally healthy and eats better than the average American, the most important eye-healthy nutrients, zeaxanthin and lutein, are notably scarce in food sources. Even if patients eat their share of leafy greens and colorful vegetables, they’d need to eat 20 ears of corn a day to get the amount of zeaxanthin their eyes need.
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Zeaxanthin and Visual Function (ZVF) Clinical Research Study (Richer, et. al. - Journal of Optometry, 2011)
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Macular Re-pigmentation Enhances Driving Vision in Elderly Adult Males with Macular Degeneration (Richer, et. al. - Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology, 2012)
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The Influence of Dietary Lutein and Zeaxanthin on Visual Performance (Stringham, Hammond, et. al. - Journal of Food Science, 2009)
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A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study on the Effects of Lutein and Zeaxanthin on Neural Processing Speed and Efficiency (Bovier, Renzi, Hammond, et al. – Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2014)
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A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study on the Effects of Lutein and Zeaxanthin on Photostress Recovery, Glare Disability, and Chromatic Contrast (Hammond, Fletcher, Roos, et. al. – Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 2014)
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A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study on the Effects of Lutein and Zeaxanthin on Visual Processing Speed in Young Healthy Subjects (Bovier, Hammond, et. al. – Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2014)
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Macular Pigment and Visual Performance in Glare: Benefits for Photostress Recovery, Disability Glare, and Visual Discomfort (Stringham, Garcia, Smith, et. al. – IOVS, 2011)
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Zeaxanthin 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 recognizes 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. | |