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Sunlight contains much more blue light than the output of any LED bulb. This scaremongering about blue content has no scientific backing at all.


Only because the sun is much brighter than any LED, but when comparing the colors of the spectrum output, the sun's color spectrum is flat compared to LED, which has what is known as a "blue spike." Most of the light a high efficiency LED outputs is blue because all high efficiency LED are blue LED. Only phosphors allow it to output other colors. And the more the LED is used, the more the phosphors fade, the more the output spectrum shifts to blue. And there is more and more scientific backing showing the problems with LED becoming more concerning. Here is a summary of one scientific study.[1] There are myriad more, and more and more are being published.

[1] https://lightaware.org/2018/01/led-lighting-may-be-contribut...




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