Are Your Eyes Getting Enough Vitamin D?
Vitamin D is essential for healthy vision, yet many of us don't get enough of this important vitamin. Luckily, increasing your intake of vitamin D is fairly simple.
Why Is Vitamin D So Important?
Most Americans don't get enough vitamin D in their diets. In fact, 28.9% of U.S. adults were considered deficient in vitamin D, while another 41.4% received insufficient amounts of the vitamin, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Vitamin D helps your bones absorb calcium, bolsters your immune system, keeps your muscles strong, and prevents some types of cancer. Good lung, brain and heart health depend on this crucial nutrient.
Vitamin D may also play a part in these eye conditions and diseases:
What Research Tells Us About the Link Between Vitamin D and Eye Health
Researchers have been curious about the effects of vitamin D for some time. Among the most interesting discoveries are:
Although these study results are fascinating and certainly help support the link between low vitamin D and eye disease, researchers note that more research is necessary.
3 Ways to Get Vitamin D
Wondering how you obtain vitamin D? Your level of the nutrient increases through any of these methods:
In addition to increasing your vitamin D intake, visiting the optometrist will help you keep your eyes healthy. Need to make an appointment? Give our office a call to schedule your visit.
Sources:
NCBI: The British Journal of Nutrition: Vitamin D Deficiency and Insufficiency Among US adults: Prevalence, Predictors and Clinical Implications, 4/11/2018
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29644951/
NCBI: Cureus: Ocular Findings Among Patients with Vitamin D Deficiency, 5/21/2021
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8215305/
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology: A Study of the Association Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Dry Eye Syndrome (DES) in the Indian Population, 2/2022
Maturitis: Circulating Vitamin D Concentration and Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Systematic Review and Meta Analysis, 6/2016
https://www.maturitas.org/article/S0378-5122(16)30072-X/fulltext
Review of Optometry: Vitamin D Comes to Light, 11/15/2013
https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/article/vitamin-d-comes-to-light-45073
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