Eye Vitamins – Eye Health In A Bottle?

James asks via e-mail:

It seems that our modern diet causes a lot of deficiencies in our bodies. And doctors and medicine seem to agree that taking vitamins can help with some of those problems.

So what about vitamins for eyesight? I see eye vitamins advertised online, and wonder if they might help.”

I learned about an Internet term not long ago. They call it, “trolling”.

And while I was reading the full e-mail (which included a few more questions), I did wonder. Is James snickering gleefully to himself, while composing the e-mail? Is he enjoying forethoughts of my invariably raised blood pressure, when I will open his message?

But alas, all communiques from my dear readers fall under my category of “probably well intentioned”.

The short answer is that yes, dietary deficiencies, especially when compounded by genetic predisposition, can have unfavorable effects on your eyesight health.

In most cases though, these effects are not even secondary, to the main causes of myopia: strain and minus lenses.

In the Web program, there are a few installments discussing diet. And while they don’t contain eye vitamins, we do want Beta carotene, especially in its natural form (non chemically grown carrots), are a good idea to have in some measure. A good balance of Omega 3 fatty acids along with that, would be prudent. Keeping blood sugar low, and insulin spikes under control, certainly commendable.

But you won’t get myopia, or recover from it, by eating an eye vitamin pill.

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