Lutein is a powerful antioxidant having anti-inflammatory properties with several benefits specifically to your eyes in numerous ways as follows:
- suppress inflammation
- Protect eyes from free radicals and oxidative stress.
- enhance the capacity of eyes and the sharpness of your vision
- improve your visual contrast sensitivity
- reduce glare impairment
- protect eye tissue from sunlight damage
- reduce cell loss and death related to eye disease
- protect your eyes from harmful blue light
- convert light signals into electrical signals in your retina and aid in the transmission of those signals to the visual cortex in your brain
- protect against nearsightedness (myopia) and protect pre-term infants against the effects of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)