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Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function

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Re: Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function

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One night? You could probably repeat this experiment with fart stench or any other obnoxious irregularity and find impairment of glucose tolerance at a decent p value.

I see the headlines now: "Fart stink during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function." So yeah, guess the wife is getting diabetes if I don't move to the dog house.

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I even hate laptop/modem/smoke detector lights.

You can buy some self-adhesive light attenuating film. They sell it in pre-cut shapes, in black (several strengths), white and silver. The name brand that started it all was, "LightDims".

I put them on... most things. Network gear LEDs. Power LEDs. All manner of things.

Re: Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function

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I find these stickers helpful for a ton of little lights in the bedroom LIGHT DIMS Black Out Edition - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009WSN8PK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...

Grabs wheel, jerks hard left:

Oh my those are some fun images! The art on a lot of Amazon listings are just hillarious. Some are down right creepy. The 6th image for this listing has a very intersting bit of text on the screen in what I'm guessing a slide in a deck??? My favorites are the ones where the "product" is just photoshopped in with Escher level physics required to make it believable.

Re: Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function

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post #23
post #4

I even hate laptop/modem/smoke detector lights.

You can buy some self-adhesive light attenuating film. They sell it in pre-cut shapes, in black (several strengths), white and silver. The name brand that started it all was, "LightDims". I put them on... most things. Network gear LEDs. Power LEDs. All manner of things.

Are you really trying to sleep in a room with that type of LEDs, or do you just really hate all things LED?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a time when it seemed like every new device had to have an always-on blue LED. Escaping blue light at night was an effort. These days small white LEDs are in fashion, which I find much more tolerable.

A big of black gaffers tape takes care of that for me. Electrical tape in a pinch. If I use white gaffers tape, it significantly cuts the light but is still visible when I'm looking right at it.

How many people outside of production work a) knows what gaff is, b) where to get it, c) uses it with a pair of scissors?

Re: Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you suggest one? Maybe one that doesn't uncomfortably push your eyeballs in

I love my nite hood exactly for that reason: https://www.nitehood.com/

This definitely qualifies as one of those things I often wonder "what were they smoking when the thought of this, and where can I get some?". I'd love to be a fly on the wall in pitch meetings or see The Sharks be pitched this. However, I love that you can just wake up in your nitehood, adjust to be on the on the go, and one more adjustment to rob the stage coach or money train with your gang of outlaws.

Re: Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function

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This article refers to "moderate" (100 lx) light exposure - this amounts to an overhead light on in the room for the entire duration of sleep. I would say an overhead light is a significant amount of light, but wonder how low the threshold is for sleep disruptions. Living in an urban environment, there's a non-negligible amount of ambient light that makes its way in. I don't use a set of blackout curtains, but I know…

> I don't use a set of blackout curtains, but I know several friends that say it makes a real difference. Maybe a year ago, I was planning on having a sleep study done. At some point in my 30s I stopped feeling like I was recovering when I slept. I decided, however, that there were some things that I could work on improving before having a sleep study. Most of what I addressed falls under sleep hygiene: Blackout curt…

+1 for the blackout curtains. Easily 20% better sleep.

And our only source of light at night prior was a street light outside our bedroom window.

Re: Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function

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post #19

This article refers to "moderate" (100 lx) light exposure - this amounts to an overhead light on in the room for the entire duration of sleep. I would say an overhead light is a significant amount of light, but wonder how low the threshold is for sleep disruptions. Living in an urban environment, there's a non-negligible amount of ambient light that makes its way in. I don't use a set of blackout curtains, but I know…

> I don't use a set of blackout curtains, but I know several friends that say it makes a real difference. Maybe a year ago, I was planning on having a sleep study done. At some point in my 30s I stopped feeling like I was recovering when I slept. I decided, however, that there were some things that I could work on improving before having a sleep study. Most of what I addressed falls under sleep hygiene: Blackout curt…

Blackout curtains are great for sleeping, but I have trouble waking up and getting out of bed when the room is still completely dark (when it’s light outside in the AM).

Recently bought some Hue smart lights to simulate sunrise with blackout curtains which is helping. Next up, motorized blinds that open at a scheduled time.

(#firstworldproblems)

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