Here’s how your phone could be accelerating the aging process of your skin

Imagining a day without taking a look at your phones or laptop seems impossible today but being in front of screens for a long time has been found to affect our aging process! Continued and prolonged exposure to blue light, which emanates from your phone, computer, and household fixtures, might affect the longevity or accelerate the aging process. Continued and prolonged exposure to blue light, which emanates from your phone, computer, and household fixtures, might affect the longevity or accelerate the aging process, even when the screen isn’t directly shining in your eyes. Researchers examined how flies responded to daily 12-hour exposure to blue LED light -- similar to the prevalent blue wavelength in devices like phones and tablets -- and found that the light accelerated aging. The flies exposed to blue light showed damage to their retinal cells and brain neurons and had impaired locomotion -- the flies’ ability to climb the walls of their enclosures, a common behaviour, was diminished.