Anti blue light glasses

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I’ve been reading quite alot about blue light and how looking at screens in the evening can effect sleep, so thought I’d get a pair of the anti blue light glasses. I’ve been using them for a few evenings now and not sure if I can reach any conclusion yet. The reason I’m giving them a whirl is that I did notice that if I looked at a screen in the evening before bed e.g. iphone, ipad, then I didn’t get as good a sleep as when I didn’t. Has anyone else tried these glasses as would be interested in others experience :grinning: I often read my kindle in the evening if at home, as thought that didn’t deliver blue light but after doing a bit of research I now understand that it does, but less than phone/tablet/computer.

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Yes I have a pair as of a couple of weeks ago. Like you too soon to say but using red light therapy lamp as well. (Near infra red + infra red)

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What are the benefits of the red light therapy, as I keep hearing about it???

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Increased blood flow into tissue and at 650nm and 830nm or there abouts mitocondria get quite busy and make/release collogen and cell repairing processes.

My interest was tweaked with early data from UCL London on eyesight.

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Oh wow, interesting. So I guess I get some of those benefits from my infra red sauna I assume.

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I use this, it runs automatically:-

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I would think so. Some certainly believe so I am certainly looking towards getting one.

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The blue light has other bad effects on our bodies. This exract from Dr Sara Pugh.
“Artificial blue inhibits complex 4 in the mitochondria where the deuterium depleted water is mad so this means screens, LEDs and other obnoxious light stops you making your own very low deuterium water, so it means the ‘heavy water’ with deuterium in it builds up inside you”.
Although Sara is taking about deuterium depleted water which your body makes and how blue light blocks or reduces this process. Pretty damn deep and heavy going but interesting none the less.

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The main reason for my experiment was to understand impact on the circadian rhythm, as that’s what I understood to be the main benefit of limiting blue light, but very interesting if there are also other potential impacts.

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Mine as well, there are some very clever people who have researched the link between blue light and our mitochondria ( the powerhouse of our cells). We have a friend who is a sun worshipper, she has surprisingly good health, no ailments, never had covid. Ok her skin shows aging due to long long exposure but she enjoys incredible energy levels and no health issues. Her Husband who worked late in casinos etc on the other hand although many years her junior at least 15, has heart issues etc etc. Ok by no means overwhelming proof but it does make you wonder.

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Personally I find the world of biohacking absolutely fascinating, as I just find it so amazing that individuals are discovering so many ways to enhance their health and wellbeing which aren’t promoted, and in many instances known, by the medical world - amazing when we see so many technological advances in other areas of life. The medical world and society is still fixated on curing ‘the problem’ rather than dealing with a root cause :man_shrugging:

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Sorry @Corona that is 110% pseudo-scientific hogwash.

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That’s politely expressed.

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It does sound a bit crazy, but there is plenty of research on the effects of deuterated water on the human body going way back. Also, the body can produce it’s own D20 via various metabolic pathways using raw materials that contain deuterium. Just what blue light has to do with all this though, I’m not sure.

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Given that 0.0156% of hydrogen is 2H naturally then there will always be some “heavy” water in your body.

It is chemically the same as “ordinary” water and not radioactive - unlike Tritium 3H but that does not occur naturally in any appreciable quantity (it has a relatively short half life of about 12 years so naturally decays and disappears).

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Not absolutely the same as H20, the binding energy is I think a bit higher. Not radioactive but it can create higher levels of damage when it gets into DNA due to the difference. At the levels you get in natural water though, it’s effect isn’t really measurable.

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Potentially and at 1st pass it certainly looked the case but as time and study goes on it does seem to reveal some intersting possibilities. I am not saying I completely agree or disagree, science is about studying what we may not agree with, at least to start but we follow the path of both sides of an argument.

Now what is 125% psuedo science is Diabetes clinics and the food pyramid.
Also 5 a day.
Statins not far off either except in the emergency room but these things don’t get called out.

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What gets me is the suggestion is that somehow it is only “artificial” blue light, but there’s no difference between “artificial” blue light and blue light from any other source - in which case going out in the sun must be a complete disaster.

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The only time we should be concerned about a blue light is if is fixed to an emergency vehicle :ambulance::oncoming_police_car::fire_engine:

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There are so many variables that potentially effect sleep, and it will be difficult to be really conclusive, but it’ll be interesting to see if there is any positive effect from the glasses.

@billybutcher I think the point is not that the sun emits blue light like screens, but how looking at the screens at night/early morning effects the circadian rhythm, which then upsets sleep cycles.