A Dietary Strategy for Optimizing the Visual Range of Athletes.

Exerc Sport Sci Rev

Vision Sciences Laboratory, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program, Department of Psychology, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Published: July 2023

Visual range is quantified by assessing how far one can see clearly (an ability crucial to many athletes). This ability tends to vary significantly across individuals despite similar personal characteristics. We hypothesize that the primary driver of these differences is the individual response to scattered short-wave light in the environment moderated by the dietarily derived retinal pigments lutein and zeaxanthin.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10259207PMC
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