{"id":10563,"date":"2018-08-22T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T09:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iristech.co\/?p=10563"},"modified":"2019-11-25T17:07:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T15:07:38","slug":"blue-light-filters-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iristech.co\/blue-light-filters-how-to\/","title":{"rendered":"How to choose a Blue light filter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You may think that all blue light filters are the same but they are not.<\/p>\n

In this article, I’m going to give you everything you need to know to choose the best blue light filter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based on my 5 years of experience dealing with blue light<\/a>, eye problems<\/a>, and sleep<\/a>, there are certain things which are super important and nobody talks about.<\/p>\n

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If you want to protect your eyes from the PC,<\/p>\n

If you want to have better and more deep sleep,<\/p>\n

If you want to work more on your computer and be less tired,<\/p>\n

Then filtering and controlling your blue light exposure will help you achieve this.<\/p>\n

All high-performing people know about blue light, but there are also some things which they know and most people don’t.<\/p>\n

You are already a step ahead because you know that our health is not only food and water.<\/p>\n

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Light has so profound effect on our body and yet it is the most underrated physical phenomena.<\/p>\n

The light changes our sleep patterns, affect the building blocks of our body – the mitochondria cells.<\/p>\n

Light regulates our mood and emotions and the truth is that we don’t even see most of the light around us.<\/p>\n

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Our microwave, the Wi-Fi in our house, radio, our smartphones even the electrical current in our house, all of this is light.<\/p>\n

And while we can’t live in caves and about all EMFs, you can do something about the harmful emissions from your PC at work or at your home.<\/p>\n

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Cells of living things respond the most to red and blue light.<\/p>\n

Red light promotes growth and blue light suppresses growth.<\/p>\n

You can see this in medical researches on plants, rats and all kinds of animals.<\/p>\n

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In our body, we get tons of problems by too much exposure to blue light.<\/p>\n

One of the most prominent are different problems and retinal damages to our eyes, but we also get negative effects if we get too much blue light onto our\u00a0skin.<\/p>\n

And not surprisingly\u00a0the biggest producer of blue light in our lives is our electronic devices.<\/p>\n

Phones, laptops and our PC.<\/p>\n

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Compared to the sunlight the light emitted from our electronic devices contains so much more blue light that all of us get eye pain, sleep problems, depression, mood swings and emotional instability.<\/p>\n

But it shouldn’t be that way. There is a way to use your PC whole day and feel great.<\/p>\n

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In 2015 I created a game-changing health software called Iris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today it’s used by more than 1 million people worldwide and is growing every day.<\/p>\n

Download Iris<\/a><\/p>\n

If you have some friend who is super productive and feels great all the time she is probably using Iris<\/a> and is one of the thousands of happy users<\/a>.\u00a0So back to the question,<\/p>\n

Why most Blue light filters are bad?<\/h1>\n

To answer this question simply, it’s not only blue light.<\/p>\n

There is also PWM flicker<\/a>, Subpixel flicker and the premise of most blue light filters is that they will improve your sleep.<\/p>\n

But is this actually true?<\/p>\n

If you have some blue light filter you can use this blue light filter test<\/a> to see how effective it is.<\/p>\n

It’s not only Blue light<\/h2>\n

And by it’s not only blue light I mean that the latest medical researches point that light up to 550 nm has an effect on melatonin suppression.<\/p>\n

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They are actually not that new since most of them are from 2001 but most of the blue light filter manufacturers don’t even read things that are this old.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to go into much details about this so I’m just going to give you some links to medical researches: Study 1<\/a>, Study 2<\/a>, Study 3<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n

And you don’t need a PhD to understand all of this things.<\/p>\n

We have read, tested and made a product which can give you all the benefits of the science of blue light with a simple click.<\/p>\n

And just so you know, if you really want to improve your sleep, the colors around you at night should look like the Sleep type<\/a> in Iris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This may seem like too much but it’s actually true.<\/p>\n

However, the Health type<\/a> will reduce the peak of blue light and you will be more healthy and sleep better while the colors of your screen comfortable to watch.<\/p>\n

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Just try and tell me if you don’t see a difference in your eye and sleep health. You will be amazed and you will never use a PC without Iris<\/a> again.<\/p>\n

Download Iris<\/a><\/p>\n

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So you need to block light up to 550 nm to have a better sleep (both blue and green) but what about eye protection?<\/p>\n

Is blocking blue light enough to reduce your eye pain and eye-related problems with the PC?<\/p>\n

Is it normal to feel eye strain in front of the PC?<\/p>\n

The answer is No.<\/p>\n

Eye pain has little to do with reducing the blue light and much more with matching the brightness to the room lighting and reducing flicker from your monitor.<\/p>\n

My research found that most monitors are actually really bad for the eyes and I explain this in a little bit more details in my TED talk, “How technology is killing our eyes<\/a>“:<\/p>\n