Day Shift
Day Shift
Four things happening every time you sit down at a screen. Together they explain that heavy-eyed, headachy 3pm feeling, and the fourth is why it keeps getting worse.
Normally you blink around 15 to 20 times a minute. Locked on a screen, that can fall to as few as 5. Fewer blinks means tears stop spreading across your eyes. That's the dryness, the burn, the grit.
It has a name: digital eye strain, also called computer vision syndrome. It's recognised by the American Optometric Association and the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and most people who work on screens all day feel some version of it.
The coffee. The deadline. The weather. Often, it's your eyes. Headaches are a documented symptom of digital eye strain, and so is the neck and shoulder pain that comes from craning toward a screen your eyes are working overtime to hold in focus.
This isn't a one-off. It's every workday, for hours, your eyes locked in the same near focus and barely blinking. Day after day, with no real chance to reset.
So it doesn't just show up at 3pm and disappear. It stacks, and the people who feel it worst are the ones living on screens the longest.
Screens hold your eyes open. Every so often, close them slowly for two seconds. It spreads tears back across the surface, which is exactly what stopped happening.
Every 20 minutes, look at something about 20 feet away for 20 seconds. Recommended by eye-care bodies. It lets your focusing muscles unclench and your blink rate reset.
Stand up. Look out a window. Get real distance between you and the screen a few times a day. It gives your eyes the one thing screens never do: distance.
Those help the moment. The other half is what you give your eyes to work with every day.
Day Shift is a daily drink made for screen-heavy days. Bilberry extract, traditionally used to support the eyes and help with screen strain, alongside natural caffeine paired with L-Theanine for calm, jitter-free focus. One sachet in cold water each morning, next to the blinks and the breaks.
About the price of a coffee, once a day.