Tag: Age-related Macular Degeneration.

Red lights & macular degeneration

Thanks to Sharon for sending me a link to this podcast: The Science of Vision, Eye Health & Seeing Better | Huberman Lab Podcast #24.

Prof Andrew Huberman describes how we see. By this he means how our eyes focus and convert light information into electricity so that the rest of the brain can understand ‘and how our brain creates the incredible thing we experience as “sight”.’

Here’s the link to the podcast.

The part about the effect of red lights on age-related macular degeneration is at about the 1 hour 15 minute mark. All of it is worth listening to, though!

Thanks to Harry Quan on Unsplash for the beautiful image.

More on eye lights

Prof Glen Jeffrey at University College London released the results of a small study looking at the effect of red lights (deep red 670nm in particular).

Click here to go straight to the article

Prof Jeffrey’s work has been previously described in this blog. He and his team have clearly shown that deep red light is good for eyes.

Remember, though, only use LED lights.

Never ever use lasers on your eyes!

You can make your own eye light using LED strip and an old pair of glasses – here’s a link to a recent post showing a home-made eye light.