Many supplements for vision loss do not achieve their label claim, researcher says

TORONTO -- A new generation of supplements have become a billion-dollar business, boasting antioxidants that slow the development of macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.

“We were amazed with what we saw,” John Nolan, founder and director of the Nutrition Research Centre Ireland and one of the authors of the new report, told CTV News. “Not every product that's commercially available actually has what it says on the label.” “Out of the 11 products that we could analyze, seven of them were on the south side of their label claim, and some of them were even significantly under what Health Canada would request,” Nolan said.

“We know that when the right nutrients, when the true carotenoids are used, we can help patients. That’s not a hypothesis anymore. That's a scientific conclusion from a well-conducted experiment.” “I think it's concerning in the sense that people are spending their hard earned dollars to take supplements that may or may not be helping them,” Cruess said.

Macular degeneration affects the macula, a region near the centre of the retina that provides us with “over 90 per cent of our vision, and all of our color vision,” Nolan explained. Nolan is one of the leading scientists looking at carotenoids and the eye, having studied in this field for two decades. He said he has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed publications. Some of his papers or research studies have looked at commercially available products in the past.

And this degradation can occur fast. Nolan took one of the Canadian products that was powder-based and had failed the test, and re-tested it 22 days after it had been opened. CTV News has the names of the companies listed in the report, and has contacted them, but has decided not to publish the names pending the Health Canada investigation into the Canadian products.Cruess said those who are already taking supplements should continue with their current product.

“An organization threatened to go after me and do whatever it takes to ruin my reputation unless the name of the organization was removed from the report,” Nolan said. “He said that ‘this can all go away if the company name was removed from the report.’ He said that I live in an ‘ivory tower’ of research and not in the ‘real world.

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No surprise there. All so-called supplements are a boondoggle.

It’s all about gene therapy now. $LCTX is one example of some good science the public can invest in. Eyes reproduce cells like bandits. Seems suiting that cellular therapy would work in the eyeball region.

The headline should read: we know which eye supplements are useless but won't say because we don't want to get sued by big pharma

I make it simpler: Supplements do not achieve their label claim.

I see how that could happen.

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