Dr Joseph Allen

So...

There's a lot going on there, but yeah.

So they've been looking at lifestyle factors on aging eye diseases for a long time, many decades.

The biggest one thing when it comes to diet, and they even have more recent publications, a mentor of mine, Julie Poteet, she's a past president of the Ocular Wellness and Nutrition Society, who I'm

which I'm a member of, she even brought my attention to a publication just this year from the American Journal of Nutrition.

They looked at the original publication of AREDS, the Age-Related Eye Disease Study.

It has a large cohort of people, like 4,000 people.

They watched over nine years tracking their diet, tracking their eye health and how things were changing.

And they find that just eating a Mediterranean diet

Green leafy vegetables, oily fish reduces your risk of developing conditions like macular degeneration, specifically slowing down the progression of that condition.

In that specific study, this publication that just came out, they showed that just having 2.7 servings of green leafy vegetables in a week, not a day, but just even a week, right?

We're supposed to have more than that in a day, but just 2.7 servings or more can slow down your risk of progression of that condition, macular degeneration, by 25% from going from early to more of an advanced stage.

especially as we get older.

Because that condition, and we can go into it, but that condition has a lot to do with your inflammation.

It has to do with metabolism and oxidative stress that occur within the eye.

But green leafy vegetables, at least 2.7 servings a week, that's that specific study.

They find that oily fish, eating two servings of oily fish a week, slowed it down by 21%.

And then they found a synergistic effect for people who ate both.

It was a 41% reduced risk of progressing in that disease.

So, and that's not just the only study.