Proven, Tips to Preventing Vision Loss

In this Article. I'm going to share with you some proven eye health tips to Preventing Vision Loss that both improve eye health and prevent eye disease. So let's continue and don’t forget share a couple of eye health tips that are proven in the literature that actually show it benefits for Eye Health.

Watch Your Cholesterol Levels

In future, I disease tip number five coming in at the bottom of the list is actually to watch your cholesterol levels and to decrease your saturated fat intake not really big medical news that here in the high elevated level amount of cholesterol and saturated fat in the diet isn't good for you, but it's certainly not good for the eyes either. There are studies that suggest having elevated amounts of cholesterol and eating high amounts of saturated fats actually contribute to the development of age-related eye diseases such as macular degeneration. So having higher amounts of these levels in your blood stream also contribute to other diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure both of which actually contribute to different retinal diseases within the eye not only are the diseases like a diabetic retinopathy which can cause blindness hypertensive retinopathy from high blood pressure that can hurt the eye as well as actual cholesterol plaques that get released from this cholesterol getting stuck in your arteries can actually get all the way up to the eye and cause a stroke within the eye that we call a halt and horse. 

 

Plaque that means decreasing the amount of foods in your diet that have elevated amounts of bad fats such as fast food or processed Meats including high fat dairy products such as milk butter and cheese cannot just be beneficial for your whole body and heart health, but also for the eyes this all is actually compounded Again by having a decreased body mass index.

 

Increase Omega 3

The bad fats in your diet tip number four is to increase the good fats in your diet namely omega-3 fatty acids in case you haven't heard omega-3 fatty acids are considered the good fats that we find in some natural food sources such as oily fish like salmon as well as from some vegetable sources including nuts and seeds. There's even an LG based supplement that I've found that you can actually take as an alternative to taking fish oil capsules as a supplement. Now, there's a whole lot of Omega-3 debates on how omega-3 fish oils could help with Heart hell's or joint health or even neurological brain health. There are a lot of documented studies that show of support that omega-3 fatty acids can help with dry eye symptoms as well as preventing retinal disease. What's really interesting is that research studies have consistently shown that people who eat a diet with higher amounts of Omega threes in them have decreased risk of developing age-related eye diseases such as that macular degeneration as well as people with diabetes. In fact a recent study. 

 

Found that people who had Omega-3s higher in their diet and diabetes not only developed a diabetic retinopathy less but people who did develop it. It wasn't as severe and people who needed treatment for it responded better to the treatment that's amazing support for having Omega-3s in your diet. And even if you're not diabetic, there is a lot of evidence supporting that Omega threes are good for your eyes tip number three is to eat more food. That are found in foods, like fruits and vegetables often contain high amounts of vitamin C vitamin E zinc zeaxanthin as well as a very powerful I nutrient called lutein. These have all been found to be very beneficial for the processes inside the eye to keep the eye healthy and prevent eye disease namely because we are constantly looking at everything around our world. That means light is actually entering the eye and causing the photoreceptors within the retina to turn over and constantly beat 

Consuming Antioxidant 

Right and that requires a very high amount of metabolism and a faster with metabolism causes more amounts of reactive oxygen species with antioxidants basically negate. In fact, there's actually eye diseases like macular degeneration or its standard of care for eye doctors like myself to prescribe I Vitamins because it helps those diseases so much. So, yes, just as you've probably heard throughout your entire life eat your fruits and veggies tip is to consider taking some sort of I vitamin supplement if you're somebody who doesn't like eating fruits and vegetables. And you can't really stomach eating oily fish like salmon, then perhaps taking some sort of supplement is the best option for you. There's many for my vitamins. You can find in the market. It's a go to the store. You'll probably be overwhelmed by the amount of options that we have for I vitamins in general who probably someone's with the words a Reds written on the side that sense for the age-related eye disease study. Those are all large-scale studies that basically proved and found the benefit of using I vitamin supplementation for diseases like age-related macular degeneration. 

Don't Forget Eye Vitamins

 

For somebody who's never been diagnosed with a disease like that. You probably won't have much benefit from taking that specific formulation. But there are different I Vitamins out there to supplement for your eye health. I personally take an eye vitamin every day from I promise called. I promise restore which is more formulated to prevent age-related eye diseases mainly by increasing What's called the EM pod, which stands for macular pigment optical density. It's really the amount of structural support pigmented layer in the back of the eye by taking these vitamins to increase the amount of that pigment and that helps prevent aging eye disease mainly by preventing damage from 

 

Gee light that we get from the Sun and digital devices. I personally still think it's best to try and eat healthy foods and get all of your nutrients naturally instead of supplements, but I still think it's a good option for those who maybe are concerned or have higher risk for retinal or eye disease, but I do also want to mention if you're considering taking some sort of vitamin supplement. Make sure you talk to a medical professional in your area to make sure that it is right for you. 

Quit Smoking

Not my number one tip for improving Eye Health preventing eye disease is something that I know a lot of people are not gonna like to hear and that is To quit smoking and that is because cigarette smoking and tobacco use in general is associated with higher risk factors of developing eye diseases such as macular degeneration again, a blinding eye disease that people get in their 50s and Beyond as well as development for things like dry eyes uveitis a bad inflammation inside the eye as well as a condition called thyroid eye disease. So if you have any sort of thyroid problems for yourself and your family smoking very greatly exaggerated problems with your thyroid. 

 

But the reality is it's really no big news that smoking can cause a lot of problems in your entire body. I mean, it's written warning right on the side of the box, but I do know that quitting smoking is one of the hardest things you can do and I do encourage you to reach out to a medical professional in your area in case you can get medication from them or counseling services that they could recommend so that they can help you quit and if you were a friend or a quantity or family members, maybe need some extra motivation on how to quit smoking. I have included an additional link to one of my friends videos doctor Karthik. Ramen on he does a really great job of explaining and really motivating people for quitting smoking.

Keep Health and Clear Vision.

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