57. Why Blocking Blue-Light Could Help Optimize Your Sleep: Interview with Andy Mant
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Do your eyes hurt after a long day of staring at your computer screen? Do you have trouble sleeping? With all the new devices surrounding us, it's possible you're overexposed to blue-light which is interrupting your natural sleep cycle and creating a domino effect of health symptoms.
In this episode of the Knowledge and Mileage Podcast, Kris sits down with Andy Mant of BLUblox, a company that cares about your health and has gone to great lengths to produce the most advanced blue light filtering eyewear.
Tune in to find out what blue light is, how over exposure to blue light could effect your sleep and your health, and why you should consider wearing blue-light-blocking glasses at night.
Time Stamps
- What is blue light? [8:30]
- How much blue light is optimal? [16:50]
- How blue-light factors in obesity [31:00]
- Why we should consider changing out the lightbulbs in our house [44:30]
- How you fall asleep [54:00]
- Correlation of blue light and thyroid health [1:00:57]
Featured Guest: Andy Mant
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- BLUblox: Use the code GETHIN at checkout for 15% off
- Light and Health Facebook group
- What Blue Light Glasses Are Best?
- How Your Skin is Disrupting Your Body Clock
- Is Insulin Resistance a Disease of Light?
- How to Choose the Best Light Glasses
- Skipping Breakfast is Killing You
- You're Wearing the Wrong Blue Light Glasses
- f.lux
- IrisTech
Connect with Kris
Instagram: @krisgethin
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Knowledge and Mileage Podcast. I am Chris Gethyn. |
| 0:07.6 | And here on this episode, speaking to somebody all the way in Perth, I believe in Australia, is Andy Mant. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to the show, Andy. Hey, Chris. Thank you so much for having me on. It's an absolute honor. |
| 0:22.6 | It's a pleasure, mate. It's a pleasure. So people that have been following me for a while, |
| 0:27.2 | you would have seen me talking about blue light blocking glasses. What is blue light? |
| 0:32.1 | And you'll see me wearing these blue light blocking glasses, especially after dusk at night. And there is a lot of |
| 0:39.7 | confusion and questions surrounding that. So we actually have the man who is the brains behind |
| 0:46.8 | the blue light blocking glasses. I actually happen to be wearing right now on this episode. |
| 0:52.5 | If you are watching the YouTube, you'll be able to see this. |
| 0:55.2 | Obviously, if you're listening to the podcast, just picture me wearing these glasses with yellow lenses. |
| 1:00.7 | Now, there's various lenses that I do wear at different times of the day. Andy, I can see |
| 1:05.0 | is wearing different glasses here again. And we'll delve right into that. But Andy, tell us a little bit about yourself and the company that you have created to help |
| 1:15.9 | with all this blue light. |
| 1:17.7 | And we will talk a little bit about that later because there is a lot of confusion |
| 1:21.7 | surrounding that. |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:24.5 | That's a good starting point, I think. |
| 1:26.7 | So I was, as you can probably tell from the accent, even though I'm in Australia, I'm British. I used to live in the UK. The reason I moved to Australia was I just felt like miserable all the time in the UK. I found the weather got me down. I felt, you know, it's hardly any sun |
| 1:45.5 | going on. You sure it was episodes of EastEnders as well. That would probably have something to do with it. |
| 1:50.3 | Yeah, yeah. I still get that over here, so I can still get my fix of... That sucks. |
| 1:55.9 | That's always good. But yeah, so anyway, I came over here in Australia. I started to feel |
| 2:00.4 | great again, but one thing in Australia. I started to feel great again. |
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