Can’t sleep?
Slept, and still feel tired?
Your mind isn’t working anywhere you want it to be?
You probably have a blue light problem.
Blue light is epidemic.
The blue-spectrum light now glowing 24/7 from energy-efficient, light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
Since 2011, LEDs are the predominant light source brightening homes, businesses, cities, and the screens of literally billions of electronic devices. That represents a big swathe of humanity — 3.8 billion smartphone users in the world.
A blue light problem is a hormonal problem.
Exposure to high-energy blue light upsets circadian rhythm and can lead to the development of insomnia and other sleep disturbances.
When you live on your LED lights after sunset, you are suppressing melatonin,
You increase alertness, and you don’t even feel like going to bed. You think you’re being so productive staying up into the night on your laptop, but you’re frying your metabolic circuits.
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Even a small speck of blue light has an effect on your body
Even a single speck of LED blue light shining from some electronic component in the corner of the room at night will contribute to poor sleep.
Even if you cover your eyes.
In 1998, there was scientific study done in 1998 because researchers wanted to find out how light really impacted circadian rhythms. They chose to shine it on the back of the subjects’ knees because it was an area they could expose to light while shielding the subject’s eyes from the light.
They used this to try to bring shift forwards or backwards circadian rhythms in people.
Those treated with the light had their biological clocks advanced or delayed up to three hours, enough to overcome the fatigue associated with familiar forms of jet lag or insomnia.
Are you living under blue light?
Dr Laura Fonken was one of the researchers who discovered that blue light can create diabetes symptoms.
They wanted to the effects of light at night on body mass in male mice.
They found that mice exposed to a dim light at night gained 50 percent more weight over an eight-week period than mice that spent their nights in total darkness.
Mice housed in either bright or dim light at night have significantly increased body mass and reduced glucose tolerance compared with mice in a standard light/dark cycle, despite equivalent levels of caloric intake and total daily activity output.
Dr Fonken warned: “In many ways, our society now functions on a 24-hour-a-day schedule. These results suggest that such a schedule may impact metabolic function.”
If you really care about your health, you’d take care of the number one thing that helps your body rest, recover, and reset day after day, and that is your sleep.
If you’re letting in blue light into your sleep routine, you are sabotaging your health efforts. Light is the stealth torpedo in your sleep routine that you don’t even know about.
It’s time to think about the light that you sleep in.