The Role of Nutrition in Slowing Age-Related Vision Decline
Vision loss in later life isn’t inevitable in the way that presbyopia is. The conditions that cause serious, irreversible vision loss — macular degeneration, cataracts, […]
Golf and Visual Acuity: Seeing the Putt Before You Make It
Golf has a reputation for being a patience game, a mental game, a game of inches. What it rarely gets credit for is being a […]
Pilots and Night Vision: How Aviation Approaches the Problem
Aviation has a particular relationship with night vision that most other fields do not share. When a pilot’s low-light visual performance falls below what the […]
Lutein for Eye Health: What the Research Shows
If there is one nutrient that eye health science has examined more thoroughly than any other, it is lutein. With over 80 human clinical trials […]
Best Lighting Conditions for Computer Work
Walk into most offices and the lighting story is the same: banks of cool white fluorescent or LED panels overhead, screens set to their factory-default […]
UV Light and Your Eyes: The Long-Term Damage You Can’t See
There is a peculiar irony in how people approach UV protection. Most adults understand, at least in principle, that sunscreen matters for their skin. The […]
Eye Health for Hunters and Shooters: Vision Skills That Matter in the Field
There’s an old shooting instructor saying that the most important piece of equipment a shooter owns isn’t the rifle — it’s the two pieces of […]
Rhodopsin Explained: The Molecule Behind Night Vision
There is a single protein molecule responsible for the fact that you can see anything at all in a dark room, navigate a pathway by […]
Bilberry for Vision: The WWII Pilot Story and the Real Science
Few ingredients in the eye health world carry a better origin story than bilberry. According to a story that has been repeated in supplement marketing […]
Screen Time in Children: Eye Health for Parents
There is a genuine global myopia epidemic underway, and it started before smartphones. In East Asia — where the trends are most stark and the […]