OMRF receives $2.5 million to study link between diet, vision loss

Can switching diets prevent the most common form of vision loss in older Americans? The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $2.5 million grant to find out.

OMRF scientists Bill Freeman, Ph.D., and Ana Chucair Elliott, Ph.D., expect their research to reveal that a ketogenic diet can stop the changes in retinal cells that precede age-related macular de…