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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caesar" data-source="post: 817636" data-attributes="member: 159607">Hi [USER=14584]@chalky[/USER] I've no traces of retinopathy but I've been using goji berries and lutein for a while. The first is also claimed to lower blood glucose although I didn't have the pleasure to notice such an effect on myself. Different studies show the improvement of night vision by using lutein supplement. As such, I believe that lutein helps restoring the wellbeing of rods: the photoreceptors responsible of vision in darkness. Rods, or better their high metabolic rate, together with hyperglycemia are the main responsible for the development of diabetic retinopathy. Therefore, I don't think lutein intakes may make worse a pre-proliferative retinopathy condition but this's only my personal opinion and I'm not an Ophthalmologist. What I'm using nowadays is rather a light treatment called Noctura 400 that's meant to reduce retinal hypoxia, thus reducing the production of VEGF. You can find more info about Noctura 400 on this other thread: <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/green-light-for-retinopathy-treatment.67768/" target="_blank">http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/green-light-for-retinopathy-treatment.67768/</a> or directly here: <a href="http://noctura.com/" target="_blank">http://noctura.com</a>.</blockquote>

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