Is Blue Light Actually Ruining Your Vision? An Optometrist's Surprising Answer

Is your screen slowly damaging your eyes — and can your diet actually protect them? In this episode, we sit down with Yaw Buabeng, a doctoral candidate in the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at the University of Georgia and optometrist-turned-researcher originally trained in Ghana, to break down the real science behind blue light and your vision. Yaw shares what makes blue light uniquely harmful, how it penetrates deep into the eye, and its link to age-related macular degeneration.