In trying to protect or help one thing with a given intervention, we should always balance that against possible harm elsewhere.
My concern is supplementation with vitamin E. The AREDS vitamin E amount is not trivial. If you are also taking supps which happen to stabilize their pills with vitamin E - and there are a lot of them, fish oil etc. - you could be taking in a worrisome daily levels of vit. E in supplements. It is concerns such as this, that lead them to drop betacarotene from AREDS in AREDS2.
I would try to get my vit. E from food (which I try anyway). I’d also be cautious with zinc and copper. Unless you have serious zinc/copper deficiencies, I would supplement with zinc and only very sparingly, like minimal amounts once/twice a week just to prevent frank deficiencies (copper is pretty prevalent in plants, i.e. veggies). Metals like copper, iron and even zinc can accumulate in the brain with negative neurological consequences, this is more of a concern with supplements, because in food, metals are incorporated and chelated into the matrix, fiber and other modifying compounds which has a different effect than a bolus of metal in a supplement.
Lutein and zeaxanthin seem fine at those quantities (and perhaps astaxanthin as suggested by the poster). Irony: my NOW brand lutein & zeaxanthin supplement is stabilized with “mixed tocopherols”, i.e. vit. E… do I really also want to slam back more vit. E in the AREDS stack? I think not.
But really the best thing you can do for your eyes is to protect them from UV radiation (glasses outside, always, even when overcast, as most of the UV gets through the cloud cover), and have regular ophthamology eye exams.
