Vision health is the booming new supplements category

Vitamins and Supplements

See for yourself why supplements companies are targeting eye health with mac(ular)-daddy formulations.

Todd Runestad, Content Director, NaturalProductsInsider.com, Sr. Supplements Editor

April 13, 2018

Gamers, the geriatric and anyone with a smartphone are feeling the effects of harmful blue light that causes eye strain, headaches, sleep problems and even age-related macular degeneration (the leading cause of blindness among those over age 60). How did eye health all of a sudden become a $300 million supplements category? We caught up with Aaron Ches from Quantum Health to see why macular carotenoids are the hot new thing.

About the Author(s)

Todd Runestad

Todd Runestad

Content Director, NaturalProductsInsider.com, Sr. Supplements Editor, Natural Products Insider

I've been writing on nutrition science news since 1997. I'm The content director for NaturalProductsInsidercom and digital magazines. Other incarnations: supplements editor for newhope.com, Delicious Living and Natural Foods Merchandiser. Former editor-in-chief of Functional Ingredients magazine and still cover raw material innovations and ingredient science.

Connect with me here https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddrunestad/

My daily vitamin regime includes a morning smoothie with a range of powders including protein, collagen and spirulina; a quality multi, B complex, C with bioflavonoids, >2,000IU vitamin D, E, magnesium, high-selenium yeast, PQQ, choline, alpha-lipoic acid with carnitine, coQ10, fish oil concentrate, probiotics and some adaptogenic herbs.

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