Nutrition · 12 Oct 2026
Retinal neurodegeneration as accelerated ocular aging: a review of nutritional and metabolic supplements
Source: Frontiers in Aging
What the research found
Retinal neurodegeneration is a major cause of irreversible vision loss and a shared feature of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy (DR), and glaucoma (GL). Increasing evidence suggests that these conditions share important pathways with retinal aging, including mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolic insufficiency, redox imbalance, chronic low-grade inflammation, and progressive neuronal vulnera
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