Vitamin E Combined With High Doses of Vitamin B6 and Niacin Shows Promise in Reducing Cataract Risk

Vitamins E, B6 and niacin (vitamin B3) are far from being the only nutrients that play important roles in maintaining eye health and reducing the risk of cataracts.

For example, research carried out by British scientists has shown that high levels of vitamin C may be protective against the progression of cataracts. Published in the Ophthalmology journal in 2016 by scientists at King’s College, London, the study followed the development of cataracts in the eyes of 324 pairs of female twins over a period of 10 years. It found that participants with higher intakes of vitamin C were associated with a 33 percent reduction in the risk of cataract progression and had ‘clearer’ lenses than those who consumed lower levels.

Moreover, evidence of a link between vitamin C and cataracts has existed since at least 1938. In a paper published in the JAMA Ophthalmology journal that year, Estelle E. Hawley, Ph.D. and Ovid Pearson, M.D. described how they had found a decreased vitamin C content in the lens of the eye, and also in the urine, in patients with cataract.

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