059: Mitigating Artificial Blue Light with Dhruvin Patel

The Naked Eye Podcast: Exploring Natural Alternatives to Glasses, Contacts, and Surgeries

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld interviews Dhruvin Patel who is an optometrist and a founder of Ocushield. His mission is to help eyes thrive in the digital age, so he has created a line of screen filters, glasses, and light bulbs that are designed to block blue light, which has been found to affect circadian rhythms and eye physiology.

1:11 - 10 years of mitigating blue light 1:51 - Dhruvin’s story 3:00 - Mom was right! 3:25 - Research Project: blue light’s effect on eye physiology and circadian rhythms 3:40 - Blue light causes visual stress in form of headaches, and suppresses melatonin to make it harder to sleep 4:40 - The creation of Ocushield 5:27 - Science-backed blue light filters for smartphones, tablets, laptops, monitors, blue blocking glasses, and eye healthy lighting 6:30 - Blocking blue light without affecting the other colors 8:10 - Natural blue light vs. Artificial blue light 9:17 - How to mitigate blue light in indoor lighting 9:35 - Kelvins = color temperature lighting… above 5000k is for daytime, not nighttime 10:21 - Oculamp allows you to control the color temperatures 11:40 - Blocking blue light for reading before bed 13:03 - The skin senses light, not just the eyes 14:07 - 30 hours of exposure to screen time (blue light) caused 40% increase in skin inflammation 16:47 - Short term effects of blue light on the eyes 17:39 - The 20:20:20 Rule 18:13 - Long term effects of blue light on the eyes 19:25 - Children’s eyes have half the protection to blue light as adult’s eyes 20:25 - Blue light and lens health 21:51 - What about night shift workers? 24:08 - The flexibility of our evolutionary biology 25:00 - The 1:1:1 Rule 26:48 - The future of Ocushield 29:09 - Nutrition & Blue Light: Zeaxanthin acts as a blue light absorber in the retina 31:00 - Letting eyes thrive in the digital age 32:19 - Looking ahead: visual stress from virtual reality 33:35 - Go to www.ocushield.com for more information

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