Macular Degeneration Treatment Tips

Do you want to be sure you choose the best vision supplement, with the most effective and valuable nutrients for your eyes (in the best combination, at optimum levels, from natural sources and of high quality), for the best results?

Macular Vitamins: What to Look for in a Macular Supplement gives you a checklist of ingredients to look for. This is distilled from all the most crucial requirements we identified in our research. Then Macular Degeneration Products: My Own Comparison shares what we found when we went looking for a formula to buy. This explains how we came to choose Visulyn. Now we’ll take a look at Visulyn and what’s so good about it.

The formula and preparation are based on rigorous research, and tested for quality.

The Lutein and Zeaxanthin in Visulyn are of high quality, naturally derived, from marigold (Tagetes erecta), not synthesized. They are also in optimal, therapeutic, high quantities  (5mg Lutein and 10mg Zeaxanthin).

I cannot stress too highly the importance of this. Read our posts on Lutein and Zeaxanthin - they are essential to eye health, and not easily available in high enough quantities from diet. Zeaxanthin is apparently very expensive, and most vitamins for macular degeneration contain none at all, or only token amounts of it and/or lutein. Together, zeaxanthin and lutein work synergistically, giving benefits even greater than each would on its own.

Further specific ocular improvement and antioxidant activity are provided by high dose selenium and Taurine working together with Alpha-Lipoic acid, and grape seed extract.

Visulyn does not contain vits A C E , or zinc and copper. These ingredients are more common and more easily available. We recommend you obtain these and the other important vitamins and minerals (see our posts on eye health nutrients) through diet, and/or a daily multivitamin supplement  which you can then tailor to your individual health needs. In our assessment, Visulyn is more useful than a straight ‘AREDS’ formula which is based on A, C, E, zinc and copper..

Progressive Health chose to focus on eye-specific nutrients, which are more difficult to obtain (and more expensive), to provide you with the highest quality help possible and at the same time keep costs manageable.

Progressive Health provide top quality products. They have some of the most complete formulations you can find.
Their products are easy to order, they arrive quickly, and the company is prompt to respond if you have any query.

You want a product that will give maximum benefit to your vision and the best real value for price. The first thing to assess is whether it contains the most essential ingredients for the health of the macula in your eyes. So lets look at a checklist of these ingredients.

Your eyes as well as general health require daily intake of vitamins A, B, C and E (and small amounts of D and K), trace elements and minerals. Vitamins A, C, E and zinc and copper are identified in the AREDS research (see ‘AREDS Vitamins Study’). Omega-3 fatty acids are also beneficial for eyesight and general health. (Read our posts on eye health nutrients, antioxidant nutrition, foods, fish oil etc for more information).

Some or all of these ingredients may be included in supplements sold for macular degeneration. However, individual requirements vary according to diet, genetics and other factors. Also, most people are already taking a daily multivitamin supplement, and it’s important not to double up on these basic vitamins.

We have found the best solution is to take a good multivitamin/mineral supplement for overall health, and a separate macular formula with the vision-specific ingredients listed above.