Which Supplements to Take For Your Vision
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In today’s fast-paced world, taking care of your brain is more important than ever. Whether you're looking to counter the effects of aging, recover from a brain injury, or protect yourself from the daily inflammation caused by our modern lifestyle, investing in your brain’s health is crucial.
By using the right supplements, you can expect to heal your brain, improve cognitive function, and protect it from damage, all while boosting your visual potential, especially during Vision Therapy. Let’s explore the top supplements that can help optimize brain function and improve your life.
Why Give Your Brain Extra Support:
When doing Vision Therapy, you are re-training the vision centers in the brain to work properly. However, if the brain is not as healthy as it should be due to inflammation, poor nutrient status, or toxic load, then you are limiting your visual potential. Not to mention, as the command center of the body, your brain is your superpower. It is important to take care of it throughout your life so you can be as sharp and clear decades down the line as you are right now!
By investing in your brain health, you are not only investing in your vision and enhancing the outcome of your Vision Therapy, you are bathing your brain in necessary antioxidants, minerals, fatty acids, adaptogens, anti-inflammatories, and polyphenols to invest in the rest of your life! Because let’s face it, when our computer program (ie our brain) is running at optimal, we are capable of living an extraordinary life. And we all deserve that!
Carefully Curated For Your Vision Health
Each ingredient has been carefully chosen for its powerful effect on the brain and its synergistic effect with the other ingredients. Taking these supplements together you can expect to increase neuroplasticity, affect processing speed and accuracy, improve memory, cognition, and focus, reduce inflammation, boost mood, and support optimal neural (and overall body) health.
Hopefully by now, you know that at MyVisionFirst, we truly care about and are invested in the WHOLE you; not just your eyesight or vision. And that is why we are so passionate about delivering holistic care systems that improve your vision, health, and life. By combining the power of Vision Therapy, with the right lifestyle changes such as the supplements in this article, we are confident that we are caring for your vitality the very best we know how and that you will see and feel a difference!
Omega 3
The omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA are some of the most potent supplements you can take to supercharge your brain and protect your heart at the same time. Increased omega-3 intake is associated with larger hippocampal volumes (ie enhanced learning, memory, and reasoning), enhanced neural communication, lower incidence of vascular dementia and cardiovascular disease, reduced inflammation, and protection against neurodegeneration. We carefully choose and recommend Omega 3 formulations with very high levels of bioavailability to ensure that you are getting the best form of Omega 3 for your health.
Benefits of taking Omega include;
- Improved Vision: Adequate levels of EPA and DHA are necessary to help protect against vision-related conditions such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and dry eye.
- Improved Cognitive Function: EPA and DHA are vital for normal brain function and help manage levels of inflammation in the brain. High omega-3 intake is associated with improved cognition, lower risk of cognitive decline, and recovery after brain injury.
- Cardiac Health: EPA and DHA help to lower cholesterol and triglycerides, improve blood pressure, and reduce inflammation, thereby protecting the heart and arteries and reducing the likelihood of cardiovascular disease.
Recommended Supplements;
Magnesium L-Threonate
Magnesium supports neuroplasticity, lowers inflammation, and helps repair/rebuild neurons, especially helping to stabilize those unstable brain cells. Brain levels of magnesium immediately drop after a concussion. This particular form, Magnesium L-Threonate, is escorted across the protective layer covering the brain known as the blood-brain barrier, allowing this mineral to get to where it needs to go!
Recommended Supplement
Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha is a unique adaptogen long known for its stress supportive, neuroprotective, and mood enhancing effects. It has been shown to improve memory and boost brain function, reduce and relieve inflammation, and help manage and regulate blood sugar levels and stress. Stress in the body translates to inflammation. So when we can be more adaptive to stress – whether it’s emotional stress, chemical stress from toxins, or the stress from inflammatory foods or our diets – managing that response and keeping inflammation down protects our brain and brain function.
Recommended Supplement
Glutathione
Glutathione is your body’s master antioxidant – that is formulated in such a way as to deliver potent and powerful reduction in inflammation and oxidative stress while boosting cellular energy, neuroplasticity, and overall health and wellbeing.
Benefits of Glutathione:
- Neutralizes free radicles that are created every second within your body
- Enhances cellular health and cell signaling contributing to overall health and vitality
- Keeps your cells and body clean and optimally functioning from the inside out
- Eliminates toxins from your body without detoxes
- Modulates your immune response
Recommended Supplement:
- Glutaryl - Transdermal Glutathione
- Pure Encapsulations Liposomal Glutathione
Anti-Inflammatory like Curcumin or Tumeric
Lowering and controlling inflammation is the most powerful thing you can do when it comes to your health. Inflammation, whether chronic due to overall toxicity in the body, or acute due to traumatic brain injury is highly destructive to the brain, leading to cognitive disfunction and disease. When your brain isn’t functioning right, your vision won’t function right either. And because inflammation is also correlated with metabolic disease, cardiovascular disease, obesity, autoimmune disease, cancer, and even conditions like depression and anxiety, it is very important to address it and minimize it as much as possible. Our anti-inflammatory supplement acts to lower inflammation via several different pathways in the body, ensuring we target inflammation from several different angles.
Recommended Supplement:
Gingko Biloba
This powerful supplement is a unique combination of nutrients and botanicals to support optimum cognitive function and memory enhancement. The ingredients address neurological health via several pathways, including supporting brain cells’ ability to detoxify, reducing inflammation, improving methylation, enhancing mitochondrial function, supporting neurotransmitter communication, improving circulation to your brain, and protecting your brain from stress induced cell death. This supplement helps to protect against cognitive decline, improve memory, and fights back against age-related or injury-related insults to the brain.
Recommended Supplement:
- Xymogen MemorAll
Not All Supplements are Created Equal
Have you ever heard the phrase you are what you eat?
Well actually, when it comes to supplements, that’s not quite right. Turns out, you are what you absorb. Different formulations of the same ingredient can be more or less bioavailable, i.e. more or less available for your body to absorb and utilize them properly.
Additionally, the source of an ingredient and how it is processed will dictate its potency, as well as whether it contains additives, dyes, chemicals or other toxins that you would want to avoid. Your health is the most important thing you have, and we take our job in protecting and enhancing your health very seriously.
That is why at MyVisionFirst, we only recommend products that are independently verified and/or third party tested for purity and efficacy, so you get the quality you deserve and the results you are looking for.
Invest in Your Vision
Investing in your brain health is essential for living a long, healthy, and vibrant life. The supplements highlighted in this article are carefully chosen to support brain function, reduce inflammation, and promote neuroplasticity. By combining these supplements with Vision Therapy, you can optimize not only your vision but your overall cognitive health.
At MyVisionFirst, we are committed to providing holistic care systems that support your vitality and well-being. Your brain is your superpower, and by nourishing it properly, you can live an extraordinary life.
