Dr. Glen Jeffery

So nothing really changed in our world until around 2000.

As we get to 2005, we're starting to find that the incandescent lights with their loads of infrared start being pushed off the market.

Yeah, exactly.

So when we use LEDs, the light found in LEDs, when we use them, certainly when we use them on the retina looking at mice, we can watch the mitochondria

gently go downhill.

They're far less responsive.

Their membrane potentials are coming down.

The mitochondria are not breathing very well.

Watch that in real time.

Under LED lighting.

Under LED lighting at the same energy levels that we would find in a domestic or a commercial environment.

That's very concerning to me.

It is.

It was never picked up.

Then also, if you do experiments, say, for instance, on flies,

Flies don't live as long under blue light.

Their mitochondria, again, decline quite markedly.

You produce less ATP.

If you look at mice, you find mice start putting on a lot of weight.

They start putting on a lot of weight because their mitochondria are not taking that glucose out and it's being deposited as fat.