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A Pill That Helps Your Vision
This Week's Tips
Want to prevent a blind spot from appearing in your central vision? Make sure you get enough B vitamins.
Research shows that getting the right amount of B vitamins may help prevent macular degeneration -- one of the most common causes of blindness that often manifests as central-vision loss.
How to Get Your B's
Yep, a recent 7-year study of women over 40 seems to confirm it. A B-vitamin combo pill taken daily helped to reduce age-related macular degeneration -- as much as a 35–40 percent risk decrease in women whose combo pills contained folic acid, B6, and B12. Researchers suspect the B's may lower levels of eye-vessel-inflaming homocysteine. Find the best food sources for folic acid, B6, and B12 by using this free online tool.
Other Sight Saving Strategies
Try out these other ways to turn the tables on macular degeneration:
- Go fast. Turn that daily walk into eye protection by adding just a few minutes of jogging each day.
- Make like a rabbit. Keep your eyes healthy by eating salads with these ingredients.
- Nosh nuts. Find out how this snack can protect your peepers.
Find out more about macular degeneration and why it's such a sight stealer.
RealAge Benefit:
Consuming 4 milligrams of vitamin B6 per day from food or supplements can make your RealAge as much as 1 year younger.
Folic acid, pyridoxine, and cyanocobalamin combination treatment and age-related macular degeneration in women: the Women's Antioxidant and Folic Acid Cardiovascular Study. Christen, W. G. et al., Archives of Internal Medicine 2009 Feb 23;169(4):335-341.
