Bryan Johnson· Author
Avoid blue light and screens 1–2 hrs before sleep
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Avoid blue light and screens 1–2 hrs before sleep
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blue light-blocking glasses are 👍
I've shown people how to do that on Instagram in the past you can go to color filters and adjust yeah you can make your phone very orange but I A lot of times when I'm even using my computer during the day I will use um Iris and I'll put it in sleep mode all day just to decrease the amount of blue light coming off my computer
now I don't have any objective data on how much the blue light coming from my computer affects my eyes but I know that at night I sleep better when I'm not exposed to it at all
They're on their devices too late. They're having blue light exposure. They're not using blue light blocking glasses.
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