Maintain healthy vision by beating back a taurine deficiency

Crazy ‘meat trick’ DELIVERS vision-boosting ‘wonder molecule’ to aging eyes

Even if you had perfect 20/20 vision when you were younger…

And even if your eyesight was once BETTER than perfect, good enough to be a Navy fighter pilot…

You might find your peepers losing some power as you get older.

It’s just one of the many physical changes we’ve learned to expect with age.

Fortunately, there’s a way to keep your healthy eyes working strong… and keep vision problems at arm’s length.

You see, there’s a way to target the exact areas of your eyeballs that are CRUCIAL for maintaining healthy eyesight…

And helping everything you see stay crystal-clear.

This trick may surprise you…

But it’s incredibly good news if you’re a meat eater!

Take the bull by the horns

If you’re wondering how you could keep your good vision… even into your “golden years”… there’s a “wonder molecule” you need to know about.

It’s called taurine – and it gets its name from “taurus,” the Latin word for bull.

German scientists first isolated it from this great beast in 1827…

But since that time, we’ve discovered it in MANY different types of animals. Even humans!

In fact, certain parts of our bodies contain large amounts of taurine – including the brain, where it can promote the formation of new nerve cells and keep your existing neural tissue healthy.

One of the places in our bodies where the most taurine is found is in the retina – the part of your eye that senses light.

Unfortunately, your retina can change with age… particularly as it suffers from oxidative stress.

But you know what can BEAT BACK that oxidative stress… and keep retinal damage at bay?

Taurine! And that’s no “bull.”

Most of our bodies can manufacture our own supply of taurine from amino acids (the “building blocks” of proteins).

Here’s the bad news…

Our natural levels of taurine decrease with age.

And certain drugs and conventional cancer treatments… like chemo and radiation… can DRAIN you of your taurine supply, too.

Taurine deficiency has been linked in studies to retinal ganglion cell degeneration.

But there’s GOOD news, too…

With the right foods and supplements, you can RESTORE your supply of taurine.

I’ll get to what those are in a moment – but first, here’s more about how taurine can help support healthy vision.

Supplementing with taurine has shown to improve diabetic retinopathy…

And in cases of glaucoma, taurine eye drops significantly improve the signs and symptoms of the disease. In a 2018 clinical study, all it took was 90 days to show a significant improvement.

That may be because taurine can increase the numbers of rod photoreceptors in the retina… and keep photoreceptor injury at bay.

Those photoreceptors – the so-called “rods and cones” — are what your retinas use to sense light.

When they stop working properly… perhaps because of a lack of sufficient taurine levels… everything can just GO DARK.

Now, inside your eyeball, your photoreceptors “talk” to another type of cell — your ganglia — and tell them about the light signals they’ve received.

So, you’ve got to protect BOTH kinds of cells in your eyes. Your good vision depends on it.

Fortunately, taurine promotes the health of the photoreceptors that SEND the messages… and the ganglion that RECEIVE them.

The best dietary sources of taurine are animal proteins like poultry (dark meat turkey and chicken), shellfish (scallops, mussels, clams), eggs, and dairy.

But even then, you might not be getting enough…

And following a vegan or vegetarian diet could leave you sorely LACKING in taurine!

Fortunately, you’ll find taurine as a supplement in capsule form – sometimes labeled as L-taurine – either on its own or as part of a vision support formula.

Look for it at your local health food store or online.

If you find taurine in liquid form, don’t put it in your eyes unless you’re ABSOLUTELY sure that it’s an eyedrop! Some liquid taurine comes in a bottle… even with an eyedropper… but is meant for you to take orally.

Read the label very carefully (which you should be doing anyway with any supplement or drug you’re about to take). And if you aren’t sure, ask your doc or pharmacist.

To being bullish about boosting vision,

Melissa Young