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Does fish oil help your eyes?

I am a 38 year old male. I want to take care of my eye health. Does fish oil help your eyes?

5 Answers

Fish oil is reach in omega-3. Omega-3 has multitudes of benefit including improving secretions if eyelid glands and helping dry eyes conditions. It also can improve and prevent sty formation!

Darab Hormozi, MD
Fish oils help a small amount with "evaporative" dry eye in which the oil glands in the lids are blocked due to inflammation on the back side of the lids. Hot, moist compresses while applying pressure toward downward on the upper lids and upward on the lower lids (for 5 minutes twice a day) help even more to get more oils going.
Fish oil helps with dryness. 2000 to 3000 mg of polyunsaturated fish oils will help.
Yes, you'll want to take omega 3.
Yes, it has omega 3 that helps