Dr. Joel B. Hayden : All right guys, today,
we're talking about astaxanthin and its ocular effects. If that interests you, stick around.
So I'm Dr. Hayden. If you haven't been here before, welcome to the eyecare and wellness
channel. Today, we're talking about astaxanthin in the eye. If you like what I have to say,
consider subscribing, hit that like button and let's get at it. All right, guys, at the end,
I'm going to give you this really cool sneak peek of what we're going to be coming up with at Hayden
Optometric in the near future, which will kind of tie all this in together. Do not miss it. Stick
around to the end. Astaxanthin is a carotinoid, which is a fat soluble pigment. It is responsible
for giving salmon its color. It is responsible for giving flamingos their color. Astaxanthin is what
may be the most powerful antioxidant known. So what does an antioxidant do? Well,
many of the diseases that we can get as humans,
cancer being one and so many eye diseases, including cataracts and macular degeneration
are oxidative eye diseases. When stress comes into the system however,
we get something called free radicals and these free radicals can start the whole basis
of disease. So by ingesting antioxidants, we're trying to neutralize that effect of the oxidative
stress. So what's an antioxidant? Well, one of the earliest antioxidants known was vitamin C and
its biggest proponent was Dr. Linus Pauling out of Cornell, I believe. And
that was 40, 50 years ago. And vitamin C now, compared to astaxanthin, astaxanthin is 6,000
times more powerful or more potent than vitamin C. So astaxanthin is really a potent antioxidant,
if not the most potent antioxidant known. So where do you find astaxanthin in nature?
Typically fish. So lobster, crab, crawfish, red snapper,
shrimp, krill is probably the most common. It can be found in algae, and
salmon, and trout. And there's many other fish that you can find astaxanthin in, but
it's primarily in fish when you go looking for its natural state. So Dr. Hayden, why are you telling
us all of this? Well, I think it's important that we consider taking astaxanthin on a regular basis
to protect ourselves from these diseases, especially when it comes to eye diseases.
And there is increasing evidence that it can potentially increase things like our ability
to focus with a combination up close. That whole thing that happens in our 40s and 50s, where we
start to lose it and need reading glasses. It's been shown in some studies that astaxanthin
can actually give us some of that focusing back. It's been also known to reduce eye fatigue,
decreased dry eyes, prevent eye fatigue, as well as increased depth perception.
But one of the most important things that it does is it protects us from the harmful blue light and
UV light that enters our eye that can do all of the damage and of course that's oxidative
stress or oxidative damage again. So that's why I think astaxanthin is important to take. Here
we are. End of the video. You're going all right, I'm sticking around. I know you want to click off
this thing. Don't do it yet because here it is. It is Dr. Hayden's ARM'D Strong eye vitamin. ARM'D,
standing for age-related macular degeneration, but it is going to be good for so many other things.
So you may be asking, astaxanthin, I'm sure I can walk into CVS and get some, why would I want
yours? That's a great question. Take a look at the number one product on the market right now,
MegaRed. MegaRed has astaxanthin. It's got 25 micrograms of astaxanthin. And you think,
I thought you said milligrams and I did. We have 12 milligrams of astaxanthin in ARM'D Strong.
They have 25 micrograms, that's 0.025 grams. That is not much. And that's the
number one product right now in the country. So we're very excited. I hope that you liked
what I had to say. Stick around because we're going to do videos on everything
else that's in ARM'D Strong. And thanks for watching. Until next time, take care.