Let's talk about the best food or foods for your eyes.

Now, one of the most important structures in your eye is called the retina.

Okay? Now, the retina is optical tissue.

It's in the back part of the eyeball.

It's not just a small part.

It makes up the good portion of the back part of your eye.

Then we have a smaller section of that that's called the macula.

Now, maybe you've heard of the macula as in macular

degeneration as you get older.

But the macula is a small section of retinal tissue.

And macula comes from the Latin word which means spot.

And lutea means yellow.

So it's like a yellow spot because you have carotenoids in that area,

which are it's kind of like a pigment that is photosensitive.

So it responds to light.

Now, the retina is like film in your camera.

There's a lot of different receptors.

It picks up information and it sends it into the brain via the optic nerve,

which by the way has like 1.7 million nerves that are traveling through that optic nerve,

which carries a crazy amount of information into your brain.

And so the retina has different cells.

They're called rods, cones, and then you have other cells too,

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