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hey everybody dr michael bruce the sleep doctor here i'm excited to be able to talk to you today about blue light blocking glasses [Music] people have been asking me a whole host of questions about them are they effective what should i be looking for do they even make any sense they're kind of goofy looking do i really want to have these let's talk turkey about blue light blocking glasses so blue light blocking glasses are pretty interesting in terms of what are they supposed to be doing they're supposed to be blocking a particular wavelength of light called blue light or what we call cyan this is between 450 and 480 nanometers which is a very small wavelength the reason that we want to block these waves is because when blue light hits a particular cell in your eye called a melanopsin cell it turns off the melatonin faucet in your brain remember everyone melatonin is that key that start