Why Is Everyone Wearing Those Weird Looking Red Glasses?
15 Dec 2025 · 8 min
JJ Virgin and Dave Asprey explain why people wear red-tinted glasses, focusing on TrueDark optical filters that claim to improve sleep and energy by blocking blue light. The episode covers how these glasses work and touches on other smart eyewear like Ray-Ban Meta.
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Why is everyone wearing those weird looking red glasses? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times Best selling author, celebrity nutrition expert and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the health expert. Rs321 from Instagram asks, I see everyone wearing those weird looking red glasses. How do they work? Should I be wearing them or is it just a function FAD hey, it's JJ here. And I've got two times New York Times bestselling author and founder of Bulletproof 360 my bestie, Dave Asprey. He's been called the father of biohacking, but he's also a father of two awesome and sometimes mischievous kids. In fact, I'm still finding sugar packets from the time his daughter anna hid over 500 sugar packets all over my house. We'll be right back with the answer.
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You might see a lot of people wearing either yellow or red tinted glasses, and it's probably my fault. One of the companies I started called TrueDark, has a line of glasses with patented filters that lower brain stress during the day, which can have a huge impact on how much energy you have on your way home. But more importantly, I've been able to double my deep sleep with special types of optical filters. They look like red glasses, but they're not just blue blocking glasses, not by a long shot. And that's why they're patented. I wear these before sleep and I can measure a difference on my Oura ring, which allows me to actually track in detail what's going on in every night. How much dream sleep, how much deep, restorative, anti aging sleep am I getting. So the TrueDark glasses there. That's why. And if you see me wearing them on stage, I've worn these on really big stages. Even Tony Robbins main stage people say, why is that guy wearing yellow glasses? Well, those are the TrueDark glasses. And they're there because those bright LED studio lights, they make you tired, they make you stutter, they make you get even sugar cravings. I don't like feeling that way. I like feeling completely dialed in, especially if I'm staring at a screen and no one' been looking at me. And about an hour before bed, the red ones go on. And it has changed my sleep architecture. I can go to bed earlier. I get deeper, better sleep and less time. Total game changer. That's what those are.
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