Are Blue LEDs Harmful To Your Brain?

What is the reason why exposure to blue light at night, can negatively impact healthy sleep?

The answer is that blue light significantly suppresses melatonin production, as well as the feeling that you want to go to sleep.

Infrared light is very beneficial to your health and well being. Far infrared saunas have been used for millennia for their therapeutic value. Infrared from the sun can accelerate cell repair, increase blood oxygen levels, help to generate new blood vessels and more.

LEDs have virtually no beneficial infrared light and an excess of blue light. Blue light tends to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are commonly referred to as "free radicals". This blue light can harm your vision, as well as harm your overall health.

LED lights may also trigger mitochondrial dysfunction, leading to chronic conditions ranging from metabolic disorders to cancer

What Can Be Done?

1. Try to limit your screen time at night.

2. Buy blue light filters for your screens. This reduces your exposure to blue light, or you can get blue light filtering glasses.

It is interesting to note that people with Parkinson's disease can be especially harmed by blue light and many of them wear blue light filtering glasses, to reduce the harmful effects of blue light. Reduction of blue light exposure can reduce the dyskinesia tremors that are associated with Parkinson's.

3 .You can swap out your LEDs for incandescent light bulbs or try low-voltage, clear incandescent halogen lights that run on DC power.

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