Eyepower Red

Eyepower Red red light therapy glasses for eye health. Link in comment below for website. World's first. Made in the UK, independently tested and approved by the ethics committee of Moorfield's Eye Hospital. Good for early age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, slowing eye aging and the skin around the eyes. Affordable - £85 plus post (about $114) ship worldwide.

A review of new red light therapy glasses for eye health. Link in comments below.

Short summary video about the history of red light therapy

Professor Glen Jeffery and his team at the Institute of Ophthalmology published a paper recently showing that shining red light of low power 670 nanometre red light on your back for 15 minutes reduces blood glucose levels by 27% ! and reduces severe spikes by 7.5% which is good for our health. Get in the sun (without burning) every day if you can especially in the morning after eating. If you can't use a high quality low power red light. Any questions please ask in the comments, thanks.

Live an outdoor lifestyle if you can. Sunlight in moderation is so good for us. After recent research 2 major hospitals in London have started to wheel their ICU patients outside for a while (they knew this 100 years ago, we lost track of it though). If you can't get outside and are under white LED lights get a little lamp and put an incandescent bulb in it and turn it on for 45 minutes, it will offset the effects of the white LED lights (led lights save energy however they run your mitochondria down - see the research by Professor Glen Jeffery and team at UCL ) Long range wavelength light , ie red and infrared light are good for our mitochondria and give us more energy, they run our mitochondria up - they make them produce more energy).

Child myopia is going up (in China 52% of children and adolescents!). Here's a short video with a few ideas to help 😀

How different eye conditions look (short video explainer)

EYE HEALTH TIPS + INFO. The pupil.

Your pupil is the eye’s light‑control valve — it opens to let more light in and closes to protect you from too much light.
1. The pupil is a hole, not a structure
The black circle in your eye isn’t a “thing” — it’s an opening in the iris (the coloured part).
Its job is to control how much light enters the eye.

2. Two tiny muscles control its size
Inside the iris are two muscle groups:

Sphincter pupillae — a circular muscle that contracts to make the pupil smaller.

Dilator pupillae — radial muscles that pull outward to make the pupil larger.

They work like a camera aperture.

3. Light level controls the pupil automatically
This is called the pupillary light reflex:

Bright light → pupil shrinks (miosis)
Protects the retina from too much light.

Low light → pupil expands (mydriasis)
Lets in more light so you can see better.

This reflex is incredibly fast — around 200–500 milliseconds.

4. The brain is in charge
Light hits the retina → signals travel to the brainstem → brain sends commands back to the iris muscles.
So the pupil is actually a brain-controlled gateway.

5. Pupils also react to emotion and focus
Not just light:

Excitement, fear, attraction → pupils widen
(Sympathetic nervous system)

Relaxation → pupils shrink
(Parasympathetic system)

Looking at something close → pupils constrict
Helps sharpen near vision.

6. Why doctors check your pupils
Because the pupil is directly wired to the brain, doctors use it to assess:

Brain function

Nerve health

Drug effects

Eye trauma

A healthy pupil reacts quickly and symmetrically.

Our red light therapy glasses are good for general eye health. They reduce inflammation and slow the aging of eyes (slow photo-receptor loss). Made in the UK. See the link in the comments under this post for the link to the website. Affordable and safe.