and by dimming lights after sundown.
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and by dimming lights after sundown.
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why dimming lights at night is better than blue-blocking.
Even small steps like dimming the lights at night make a huge positive difference to sleep & health.
I recommend dimmimg the lights if you can
And what I'll try and do also is I'll try and dim the screen that I'm working on so that I can still manage to see everything that I need to see, but it's quite a bit dimmer than it was early in the day.
if you don't want to use red lights for whatever reason then you would be wise to just dim the lights that you have and we possible to have those lights be set fairly low in your room environment
are dimmable and they have the prop ER wavelength so that's what I use um they're not super cheap but they're not expensive either in in comparison to most uh red light therapies or something so we're not talking about red light therapy we're talking about reducing the overall amount of blue light in your environment Etc
But of course, that dimming of the lights and maybe even red light in the evening really, really can help.
Light dimmers or red lights at night are a good solution.
10 minutes of bright outdoor light within the first hour of waking anchors the circadian phase and improves sleep onset that night.
Morning sunlight exposure shifts the cortisol awakening response forward, improving daytime alertness.
Long-term morning sunlight reduces age-related macular degeneration risk.
Sleep regularity predicts all-cause mortality more strongly than sleep duration.
Tracking deep sleep on a wearable accurately reflects EEG-measured slow-wave sleep.
Caffeine has a half-life long enough that consumption after 2pm measurably degrades deep sleep in slow metabolizers.