Why Your 8 PM TV Habit Is Ruining Your Sleep

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]And so, typically, our society has it all backwards, right? We We try to We think that we should be winding down at night by watching TV from 8:00 to 11:30.

[00:00:10]And while we think that we're relaxing, our mind is is unable to actually comprehend that that blue light I is is is telling it something different than what we think we're doing. And so, the blue light is saying, "Hey, it's time to wake up. It's time to be re-energized." And it's it's naturally telling your body that this is the time to be fully awake.

[00:00:31]Um and I think that, you know, we aren't able to maybe comprehend that at the time, but that's what's actually happening. And so, when we miss those opportunities for the sun's natural red light in the morning and the evening, we start to get our our our circadian rhythm kind of gets skewed.