I’d always had great eyesight. Other people wore glasses, not me. At the age of 47, as much as I was pretending it wasn’t happening my eyesight was starting to let me down.
In a previous job as an operations manager at an organics exporter, one of my responsibilities was to check new product labels for accuracy and compliance. It had got to the stage where I just couldn’t read the small print anymore. This was really frustrating firstly because I’d always had great eyesight and secondly because I also kept losing newly acquired sets of reading glasses.
I’d read that blackcurrants were the king of berries when it came to antioxidants and anthocyanins and due to our high levels of UV light, those grown in New Zealand were a leap ahead of the rest. I’d read about the proposed benefit of those compounds on, amongst other things, eye health.
A boost in intake of antioxidants couldn’t hurt me, I thought, and as I had access to some blackcurrant extract at work I decided to give it a go. I didn't notice anything at first but after about a month something remarkable started to happen. Reading glasses nowhere to be found, I picked up a new product label expecting it to be unreadable and I could read it, unaided, small print and all. I found the smallest product label I could find and could read the detail on that as well. My eyes seemed to have dramatically improved! Could it be the blackcurrant I thought? Maybe my eyes were just strained and now had come right?
I continued to take the product daily and continued to enjoy the benefits. Eventually, I went away on holiday and forgot to take it with me. By the end of the week I was struggling to read the newspaper. A few days after returning home and resuming taking the blackcurrant skin extract, the benefits returned. I was sold and it’s been hard to get me to stop talking about it since!
