EyeScience Macular Health Formula Advanced Ocular Vitamin by EyeScience Labs

My ophthalmologist recommended this product for me!

Very good product!

it does help

I was recently diagnosed with the beginning signs of macular degeneration. So far, my eyesight has not been affected, but I am very worried because macular degeneration robbed my father of his eyesight in the last years of his life. My ophthalmologist recommended that I take AREDS (Age-Related Eye Disease Study) eye vitamins, but he didn't recommend a particular brand or product. I did quite a bit of reading can product comparisons before settling on these, but I've been taking them only for a couple of months and it's too early to tell if they'll work for me, especially since I don't have symptoms of MD. (I hope to find out if they're helping when I have my next exam with my ophthalmologist.) For anyone who is new to the subject, the National Eye Institute (part of the US National Institutes of Health, NIH) did two studies to determine if certain vitamins might help with macular degeneration and cataracts. The first study (AREDS) was completed in 2001 and the second study (AREDS2) was completed in 2013. The studies showed that vitamins could slow the progression of macular degeneration (which has no cure or even treatment), but did not prevent or slow the development of cataracts. The two AREDS formulations are similar, but if you're looking for vitamins to help prevent or slow macular degeneration, you'll probably want to take vitamins based on the AREDS2 formula, which replaced beta carotene with the antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin. (Beta carotene has been associated with increased lung cancer risk in smokers.) The EyeScience Macular Health Formula is a superset of the AREDS2 formulation, which means that it contains the ingredients proven to work in the AREDS2 study, plus other ingredients that EyeScience Labs believes are important for eye health. To date, however, only the original AREDS and AREDS2 formulations have been proven to slow macular degeneration. After seeing how macular degeneration destroyed my father's quality of life, I chose this product -- despite its high price -- because I'm hoping that the extra ingredients will provide additional benefits to my eyesight. So far, I haven't been able to find any proof that they actually will.

These supplements really help. Being consistent is important!