STOP sugar spikes from STEALING your vision with THIS
If you’ve got diabetes, one of the MAJOR issues that you’ve got to pay attention to is the toll the disease can take on your vision.
Elevated sugar can DAMAGE eye proteins… and even contribute to MALFUNCTIONING eye tissue.
I’m sure you’ve heard of complications like diabetic retinopathy…
But that’s not all.
Because diabetics could be as much as TWICE AS LIKELY to develop cataracts…
And diabetes is also a risk factor for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
ALL 3 of these conditions could cause blindness…
But fortunately, that vision loss could be PREVENTABLE… STOPPABLE… and even REVERSIBLE!
Don’t let diabetes STEAL your eyesight.
Here’s a “protein trick” that could help you see clearly… well into your “golden years.”
A ‘meat meal’ for your eyes
Today, I want to share with you how an amino acid called L-carnitine could RESCUE your vision from the clutches of diabetes.
It first isolated from meat in 1905… and named after the Latin word for “flesh,” carnus.
Now, more than 115 years later… it turns out that meat, especially RED meat, is STILL the best food source of this protein “building block”!
Your body can actually produce L-carnitine on its own… specifically in your kidneys and liver. It then stores the majority of it… as much as 95-98%… in your skeletal muscles and heart muscle.
But aging can make your levels of L-carnitine take a NOSEDIVE.
In fact, they could PLUMMET by as much as 20%!
You’ve read before right here in eAlert how supplementing with L-carnitine could help BEAT BACK aging…
Especially as a MAJOR function is to help the “powerhouses” of your cells… a.k.a. your mitochondria… THRIVE.
And you already know how mitochondrial function can DECREASE with age.
That’s one of the reasons why carnitine works so well in combination with CoQ10 in combatting AMD.
But it’s not just older folks that could use more carnitine to help boost their vision…
Because diabetics have shown to have as much as 25% LOWER supply of it than non-diabetics of the same age!
And studies have shown that DIPPING carnitine levels are associated with eye lenses that are MORE OPAQUE – whether or not the study subjects had diabetes.
In fact, in one study, the participants with the CLOUDIEST cataracts had about 30% LOWER carnitine than those with the LEAST CLOUDY cataracts.
The good news is that REPLENISHING your carnitine supply could CLEAR your vision!
In a 2017 animal study, carnitine eye drops not only PREVENTED the development of cataracts in some study subjects… but actually REVERSED THE COURSE in others!
Carnitine addresses 2 root causes of cataracts that lenses are PARTICULARLY vulnerable to:
- oxidative stress
- glycation reactions, which produce advanced glycation end products (or AGEs) that can contribute to cataract “yellowing.”
BOTH of those can be caused by excess glucose…
And sugar-induced oxidative stress is also a potential culprit behind the degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs)…
Which is implicated not only in diabetic retinopathy but also glaucoma.
Fortunately, a 2014 study jointly authored by researchers from China and Australia found that carnitine’s antioxidant activity could protect RGCs from oxidative damage AND mitochondrial dysfunction.
And in another study… this one out of Turkey… researchers found that patients with AMD who consumed L-carnitine showed clinical signs of REDUCED oxidative stress markers and INCREASED antioxidant levels.
The form of L-carnitine you’re most likely to find in the supplement aisle is acetyl-L-carnitine. Look for a product from a quality maker you trust at your local health food store or online.
