| Inside your eye is a pigment called melanin which has been protecting man against the harmful effects from Ultra Violet Radiation from the sun since the beginning of time. Melanin is the same pigment that gives your skin and hair its color. Melanin provides more than just color though; it is the most powerful protection against UV and visible light known to man. It is after all, Natures solution to the problem of hazardous natural UV Radiation as well as these same effects caused from fluorescent lights.
Melanin goes beyond UV protection
Melanin absorbs light smoothly over a broad spectral range. It absorbs the higher energy light more strongly than the lower energy light. So it absorbs UV more than blue, and the blue more than the green - and so on. In this way melanin provides protection to the lens of the eye against UV thereby decreasing the risks of cataracts, and then it provides near optimum protection to the retina by filtering the different colors in proportion to their ability to damage the tissue of the retina thereby reducing the risks of macular degeneration. Because the blue light is reduced, so is the glare and vision is thus enhanced. However, blue light is not eliminated so that color balance is maintained. All of these features happen naturally with melanin through the wisdom of nature.
Natural Eye Protection
Considering
the fact that nature provides us with an original supply of melanin
within the retina of the eye, researchers believe that melanin offers
both photo protection and vision enhancement; however, this valuable
photo protective pigment gradually decreases during the natural
aging process of every human being. COLORTEC PhotoProtective Filters
together with our Croaker computer lenses with the natural melanin,
provides the greatest protection known to man while compensating
the natural loss of this natural protection as we age.
We Lose Melanin as We Get Older
About 15% of our original supply of melanin is lost in the eye by
the age of forty and about 25% is lost by the age of fifty. Melanin
lenses provide us with a way of compensating for this lost melanin.
And for people with blue eyes, melanin lenses offer a means of acquiring
extra melanin protection in harsh light environments. The role melanin
plays in eye protection is critical; ophthalmologists have reported
that melanin in the eye reduces the risk of age related macular
degeneration (AMD). What is more reasonable than protecting our
eyes with a pigment which is already in the eye for that purpose?
Nature provides us with an original supply of melanin at the back of the eye. Researchers believe that this melanin offers both photo protection and vision enhancement (as does the black paint inside a camera). However, this valuable photo protective pigment is lost during the aging process. Melanin lenses provide a way to compensate for this lost melanin.
Melanin, the Free Radical Scavenger, Reduces
the Risks of Macular Degeneration
Melanin has been shown to be a powerful neutralizing agent for free
radicals and molecules which are potentially harmful to the body.
In the eye, it occurs in the retinal pigment epithelium behind the
retina where its antioxidant properties reduces the risks of macular
degeneration. People with more eye melanin have less occurrence
of macular degeneration; people with less eye melanin have greater
occurrence of macular degeneration.
An exciting possibility is that melanin bound to a contact lens may exploit this function to neutralize harmful free radicals such as superoxide within the region between contact lens and the eye. For lens applications this is a revolutionary concept which may be of significant therapeutic value.
Wearing Colortec PhotoProtective Solutions filtered eyewear with Melanin when working with your computer will:
- increase eye comfort
- reduce eye strain
- improve viewing contrast
- greatly reduce flicker
- greatly reduce monitor glare
- improve image clarity without changing colors or brilliance
Colortec PhotoProtective Solutions filtered eyewear with Melanin offers you protection against harmful light . Our lenses are coated with melanin, this natural substance significantly reduces the light which emanates from your computer monitor. Colortec PhotoProtective Solutions filtered eyewear with Melanin protects your eyes by filtering out the high energy light rays that are so bad for eyes, including UV rays and light. Colortec PhotoProtective Solutions filtered eyewear with Melanin does not change colors on the computer screen blue still looks blue, red looks red, and green looks green.
Colortec PhotoProtective Solutions filtered eyewear with Melanin have durable, anti-reflective plastic lenses that are easy to clean and tough to scratch. Once you've seen the difference Colortec PhotoProtective Solutions filtered eyewear with Melanin makes, you'll never want to work at your computer without them again. Colortec PhotoProtective Solutions filtered eyewear with Melanin can be used where ever harmful light strains your eyes.
You owe it to yourself to experience the difference. Use Colortec
PhotoProtective Solutions filtered eyewear with Melanin for ONE
day and you will see the dramatic results:
- work longer without tiring your eyes
- work more relaxed
- experience less headaches from eyestrain
- increased color perception
Applications: Office environments, Daylight Film labs, Schools (i.e., classrooms),
Hospitals (i.e., laboratories, bed lights, clean rooms, cafeterias),
Libraries, Plant & Production Facilities, Art Studios, Museums, Artifact
storage, Lupus sufferers, Pharmaceutical, all food service and packaging
companies, Department stores, Dairy, Produce, meat and Poultry industries.
Clothing-Furniture-Textile production, Storage And Sales.
The lenses will be used not only by the Swiss Government employees but also by the personnel of all official organizations, such as the Swiss Army, Railway and Telecom, who are subjected to the glaring sunlight from the snowy Swiss mountains and require the optimum photo protection provided by melanin.
The new lenses offer the latest technology in sunglass lenses for protection against the harmful effects of sunlight.
SUVA arranged to have the lenses scientifically evaluated by Prof. Dr. Med. Charlotte E. Remè, a highly qualified scientist at the Retinal Cell Biology Laboratory of the Zürich University, Eye Clinic. In her independent evaluation of the new melanin sunglass lens she called it "the perfect protective sunglass lens for SUVA".
These lenses have also been evaluated in the U.S.A. by Richard W. Young, Ph. D., Professor Emeritus, UCLA Medical School, who said:
"The melanin lens is an excellent sunglass product. It meets the recommendations of the Coalition of Eye Care Organizations, the National Society to Prevent Blindness, the American Optometric Association, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology, announced in a statement released November 10, 1993. Because it offers outstanding protection against the harmful elements of solar radiation, the melanin sunglass lens can reduce the risk of sunlight-related eye diseases."
Melanin is effective because it filters the colors in proportion to their ability to damage the eye. UV is totally blocked, violet is filtered more than blue; blue is filtered more than green. At the same time, melanin's unique manner of filtering sunlight provides excellent color perception and unusual eye comfort.
Because melanin in the eye is lost with age, the new lenses offer a means of restoring the protection originally provided by nature.50%
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