Around the turn of the century, the US National Eye Institute conducted a study to see if a cocktail of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants could slow the progress of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Responsible for half of all blindness and severe vision loss in Australia, AMD is a painless (and therefore sneaky) degenerative disease of the retina, the thin layer of tissue that lines the back of the eye and converts light into neural signals that travel to the brain for visual recognition.
