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The Mitochondria Scientist: This Light Is Silently Aging You Faster | Dr Glen Jeffery

The Mitochondria Scientist: This Light Is Silently Aging You Faster | Dr Glen Jeffery

Update: 2025-09-08
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Neuroscience professor Dr. Glen Jeffery from UCL reveals how LED lighting's blue light spike damages mitochondria, accelerates aging, and contributes to diabetes - while explaining simple solutions using red light therapy and incandescent bulbs to protect your health.

Neuroscience professor Dr. Glen Jeffery from UCL reveals how LED lighting's blue light spike damages mitochondria, accelerates aging, and contributes to diabetes - while explaining simple solutions using red light therapy and incandescent bulbs to protect your health.


🌐Links in this video

Dr Jeffery's page at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/7465-glen-jeffery

Links to the NASA Study and write up

Comprehensive Multi-omics Analysis Reveals Mitochondrial Stress as a Central Biological Hub for Spaceflight Impact

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31461-6

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/mitochondrial-changes-key-to-health-problems-in-space/

Some papers mentioned in the inteview

Longer wavelengths in sunlight pass through the human body and have a systemic impact which improves vision

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-09785-3

Impact of short wavelength light exposure on body weight, mobility, anxiety like behaviour and cytokine expression

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-89081-2


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The Mitochondria Scientist: This Light Is Silently Aging You Faster | Dr Glen Jeffery

The Mitochondria Scientist: This Light Is Silently Aging You Faster | Dr Glen Jeffery

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