Carotenoids are the pigments that give vegetables and other plant products, their bright lovely colours.
Before your body can benefit from them nutritionally, it must convert them into retinoids. This process may be difficult for some people to do, including us with Macular dystrophy.
Because our eyes cannot process this and Vitamin A properly, it affects the light receptors, causing damage to the retina, leaving the macular full of Lupofusin, clogging up, making the waste hard to get rid of.
So light sensitivity happens, floaters from the rubbish floating around in there, and damage to the macular, causing the blurry spot that makes our central vision fade.
So supplements, like any extra vitamins you may take, or the food you eat have to be low in Vitamin A and Carotenoids. Which is impossible but my specialist just said as long as I’m not going mad ingesting carrots by the ton, it will help by keeping the damage to a slower pace.
The foods highest in vitamin A are:-
⚫ Carrots
⚫ Broccoli
⚫ Cantaloupe Melons
⚫ Grapefruit
⚫ Red Peppers
⚫ Pistachios
⚫ Liver
⚫ Dried Apricots
⚫ Oily Fish
⚫ Sweet potatoes
⚫ Mangoes
⚫ Tomato Juice
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