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<\/a><\/p>\nIn 2014,\u00a0The Journal of Alzeheimer\u2019s Disease published a study of\u00a036 patients\u00a0with early Alzheimer\u2019s disease as well as 33 control subjects in the same age range.<\/p>\n
All 69 subjects were tested for levels of\u00a0macular pigment using something known as the\u00a0heterochromatic flicker photometry technique, and all subjects were also assessed on their\u00a0cognitive and visual ability.<\/p>\n
The results of this study did indeed find a link between low levels of pigments and the symptoms\u00a0Alzeheimer\u2019s Disease; together with many other studies conducted before it. The 2014 experiment revealed that low carotenoids could precede the common disease or provide an early indication for it.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s\u00a0‘Trust Me, I\u2019m A Doctor’ programme combined the information from this previous study with their own study, one which involved testing a select group with vitamin supplements for eye health against healthy smoothies.<\/p>\n
The supplement was seen to increase levels of\u00a0lutein pigment and the level of macular pigment\u00a0in the eye.\u00a0Dr. Moseley, who conducted the experiment on himself for the programme, suggested\u00a0that these supplements could perhaps also help to prevent\u00a0Alzheimer’s in later life.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the BBC’s programme also revealed at the end of the experiment that the group who took smoothies for five weeks instead of the supplement showed little or no sign of improvement.<\/p>\n So whilst healthy eating and superfoods should always be encouraged, this study could suggest that eye health supplements are much more beneficial and work much more quickly. The results also tell us that supplements should be used as an add-on to a healthy diet.<\/p>\n Studies in the past have also shown that UV rays can damage pigment cells in the retina, so if you want to ensure the best eye health, sunglasses are essential all year round. For special prescription sunglasses, take a look at our current range online at SelectSpecs<\/a> and for regular eye health news, don’t forget to keep checking in on our blog.<\/p>\n Follow us:<\/strong><\/p>\n A new study which was carried out for BBC’s ‘Trust Me, I\u2019m A Doctor’ programme…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[113,743,747,758,1004,1007,1359,1410,1544,1891,2193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"