Wearing brown-tinted blue-light-blocking glasses like Swanwick or THL Sleep at night might help protect your sleep hormone way better than other blue-light glasses by blocking more of the light that messes with your body clock.

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Home lighting, blue-light filtering, and their effects on melatonin suppression

Cross-Sectional Study

2026 Jan 21

The study found that brown-tinted blue-light glasses really do block enough blue light to protect melatonin at night, while most other blue-light glasses don’t help much—just like the claim says.

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Home lighting, blue-light filtering, and their effects on melatonin suppression

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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-29882-7

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