Impact of LED Lights on Health

So these type of lights, quite possibly, are killing you.

And I'm gonna put a clip here

from the Huberman Lab podcast,

a researcher he recently had on looking at animal models,

and it's crazy what he said, but here's the clip.

I am very concerned about the amount of short wavelength light

that people are exposed to nowadays, especially kids.

This is an issue on the same level as asbestos.

This is a public health issue, and it's big.

The light found in LEDs, when we use them,

certainly we use them on the retina looking at mice,

we can watch the mitochondria gently go downhill.

Their membrane potentials are coming down.

The mitochondria are not breathing very well.

Isn't that insane, guys?

A health crisis on the order of asbestos, these LED lights.

if they're actually harming the mitochondria in animals,

they're probably harming the mitochondria in humans as well

because of this imbalanced light.

You think this is crazy, you think I'm a nut job,

but this is actually harmful junk food light.

Now let's test the flicker.

Yeah, so we're not done when we're just talking about the actual light spectrum.

We need to look at the actual light delivery

and flicker is something that is a huge problem.

So it's kind of hard to see,

but this is actually the waveform of the light output

and the flicker percentage here at 120 Hertz

is a result of our electrical power grid,

which is at 60 Hertz

and that's causing the light, the LED light to flicker on and off.

So it's literally turning on and off at a rate that we can't see,

but our brain, our eyes, our nervous system can perceive and

it's very activating to our nervous system in a negative way.

It can cause eye strain, headaches, migraines,

anxiety, and you'll see a slow motion video of this.

It really drives it home at how crazy this is

that we're sitting under all of these lights.

day long, and we basically have no idea.

And what do we know?

At the end of the workday,

what do people feel like?

They feel drained, they feel tired,

they have a headache,

they need three to four cups of coffee

just to get through the day.

And I really think it's a combination of the imbalanced light spectrum

that's being delivered in a high-flicker manner that is causing this chronic fatigue.