What We Know About Blue Light and the Onset of Macular Degeneration Scrolling through emails and social media feeds, spending longer hours working from home during the pandemic, and schools requiring children to work on tablets — these all raise red flags for our vision. While there is still a lot of research to …
Blog
How to Be More Creative: Managing Your Screen Time at Night to Increase Creativity
Everyone has experienced the effects of a bad night of sleep — you wake up on the wrong side of the bed feeling cranky, irritable and longing for rest. You don’t want to face the day and you’re definitely not feeling creative. Why does a lack of sleep affect us so much, how does it impact …
How to Be More Creative: Managing Your Screen Time at Night to Increase Creativity Read More »
Mental and Physical Symptoms Of Too Much Screen Time
Five Mental And Physical Symptoms Of Too Much Screen Time Social media addiction and overdosing on screen time wasn’t a problem just a few decades ago. But today, it’s estimated that kids spend anywhere between 8 and 18 hours a day on their devices, and during quarantine, screen time for both children and adults saw …
Mental and Physical Symptoms Of Too Much Screen Time Read More »
The Effects of Blue Light From Sunup to Sundown
The Effects of Blue Light From Sunup to Sundown Like or not, we are surrounded by blue light day and night, inside and outside. The blue light from our screens is a more common topic of conversation as we navigate the digital-first world, but we are also exposed to blue light naturally from the sun. …
Blue Light: What It Is and Why It Matters
Your smartphone, tablet, and computer have one crucial thing in common. They all emit blue light. And as you may have heard, blue light isn’t a friend to your physical health. Blue light has a high-energy light wave and significantly affects our bodies and our eyes in multiple ways, one of the scariest being our …
What is Blue Light?
Blue light is simply part of the light spectrum. This spectrum goes from high energy gamma waves (think cancer therapy) all the way through low energy radio waves (think HAM radio). This light scale represents the amount of energy these waves carry and thus the damage it can do to our bodies. Some of these …