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Discussion on: Do you use blue light glasses?

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I wear glasses all the time while working, watching TV, anything that involves reading. As far as I know from what I've researched, a blue light filter is not meant to make your vision more comfortable even though it may be marketed like that. It might have a positive effect on your sleep cycle by reducing your exposition to blue light wavelenghts at night, which affect the production of melatonin, which in turn is involved in making you sleepy. However, this whole blue-light thing is still under debate time.com/5752454/blue-light-sleep/.

On the other hand, there are also anti-reflective coatings for glasses. My glasses have this. This might actually help more in reducing eye strain than the blue light filter so I suggest you look into that. I personally haven't noticed a huge improvement, but you could give it a try. I don't remember how much it cost me to add that.