Your smartphone is blinding you, here's what to do.

Oh man, it's not good guys. It's really not good

Woke up this morning to this particular news story. Blue light from phones, tablets, could accelerate blindness

Study finds. Blindness, guys. All I do here is talk about technology, mostly smartphones

You see the picture on here, the guy's lying in bed. That's probably you, probably me, browsing, scrolling, watching videos

You're watching this video on your smartphone. is it really making you blind

According to this particular study, yes. Blue light beaming from smartphones and tablets is changing cells in our eyes

that could accelerate blindness. Researchers from the University of Toledo studied the impact of blue light

which also comes from the sun, triggers toxic reactions in retinal molecules that sense light and signal the brain

Results showed blue light helps generate poisonous chemical reactions, killing photoreceptors which cannot be restored once they die off

Even without photoreceptors, we were observing cytotoxicity, I mean cells were dying

So only when exposed to light. We tested multiple colors of light

but this toxicity or this cell that only occurs when you have blue light

This leads to macular degeneration and incurable eye disease that causes blindness starting in your 50s or 60s researchers said This is no joke this stuff here Now we known for a little while that this blue light coming from our smartphones might be a problem

In fact, many manufacturers have put some sort of eye comfort mode, true tone, some kind of late night reading mode

Changes the color temperature or representation of color from your device. So it goes to a sort of more yellow tinge

But it turns out the situation might be more severe. It's not a new concept

TVs have been outputting similar type of light for a while. But of course the difference here is the amount of exposure

People, they're addicted to their smartphones, sitting there glaring at them. Usually in dark rooms, which is supposedly even worse

Especially if such a condition can occur if you look at your iPhone screen in the dark

See, this blue light is not just bad for the health of your eyes, it could also be bad for your sleep in general

You might actually limit your melatonin production during sleep. That's the stuff that makes you feel well-rested, feel good, and here you are messing with it, checking your Instagram feed late at night

Jack. Talking to Jack here. So here is the actual study conducted by the University of Toledo

We are being exposed to blue light continuously and the eyes cornea and lens cannot block or reflect it It no secret that blue light harms our vision by damaging the eye retina Now macular degeneration is an incurable eye disease

It sets in somewhere in your 50s or 60s. It's toxic. If you shine blue light on retinol, the retinol kills photoreceptor cells as the signaling molecule on the membrane dissolves

This is the key part right here. Photoreceptor cells do not regenerate in the eye

When they're dead, they're dead for good. That's the scary kind of dead. They're not coming back

Now it's important to note that no activity is sparked with green, yellow, or red light

The retinol generated toxicity by blue light is universal. It can kill any cell type

These studies are important, right? I see people on the street. Their faces are buried in their smartphones

Now is it a real solution? Are people going to go around and wear the special eyewear, the UV reduction eyewear

Could this be the first generation of individuals? Everybody ends up blind at 50 or 60. No, probably not, okay, of course

But it looks like via this study the likelihood is increasing. What can you do? Well, it scared me enough to go in and just turn on the comfort mode on my device permanently

I've been using the P20 Pro here. You can select natural tone, color mode and temperature, and eye comfort, which I have turned on here

And on this device they actually let you toggle it from cooler to warmer I got it the warmest all right I afraid I really don want to be looking at a yellow display or yellowish display either but I just like I weighing the options here you know

The funny thing is generally with video and displays like I prefer cooler tones, of course

The blindness tones are the ones that I prefer. So the other thing you can do is limit the amount of time you're in like a pitch black room with the screen on blast

Your eyes, they adjust for the room first. Your pupils, they open way up

Then you hit it with the screen, it's like pshh. That's one thing you can do. Next up, you can look at your app list and see if there's a night mode

Of course, with night modes, the displays are outputting less light in general

Of course, the before the bed thing is like step one, and right now you're like

Lou, you sound like my dad here. I'm just giving you some tips here to hold on to that vision

I want you to see clearly. Basically, anywhere on your device where you have a chance to limit the intensity of light coming from it

that's being received by those photoreceptors in your eyes, you could potentially increase the health of your eyeballs based on this study

Toggle it back, yellow it out, save your eyeballs. It's a public service announcement, okay

It's unfortunate. There's no free lunch in this game. All right, you get something good, you give something up, limit it

Peel it back a bit. Quit everything else except unbox therapy videos

We'll be all right. Right, Jack