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A weekly dose of red light might improve aging eyesight, study finds - C C - Nov 28, 2021

https://gizmodo.com/a-weekly-dose-of-red-light-might-improve-aging-eyesight-1848119262

INTRO: Three minutes of staring into a red light once a week may help our eyesight as we get older, new research this week suggests. Researchers in the UK found that volunteers given a weekly session with red light in the morning performed better on tests of their color vision. The findings are the latest to indicate that red light might be a cheap and easily accessible treatment for age-related declines in color vision. Last year, researchers from University College London published the results of a small human trial involving red light therapy... (MORE)