Robert Soler explains how BIOS bulb technology adjusts blue light throughout the day to match your circadian rhythm. Blue light suppresses melatonin in the morning to keep you alert, then drops in the evening so you can sleep.
The good blue that suppresses melatonin but wakes you up and is good for you.
That's right. That's right. It's a basic premise that if we're going to do this, the best time to get that bright light, that bright blue light is first thing in the morning. Ideally, we want it all day long, and then you want to pull it out at the end of the night. And it's a very simple premise of we evolved around the sun coming up at the same time each day. You want to basically replicate that inside.
It's really funny because, I mean, you know, the truedark glasses story. Cause we're partnered, but I can't do this when I'm traveling and all. So during the day, like, how do I cut out the annoying blue but leave enough blue? Which is why I've always been against blue blockers in general, because if you block blue all day long, you don't get the wake up. Right.
Right.
But then when you dim, the bulb changes its color. So the dimmer it gets, the less and less blue there is in it. Why is it. Why are those tied together? So the strength of the bulb is tied to the color. This is the only thing like that out there.
Right. So we just thought that that was kind of an intuitive way to think about it, is that as you kind of dim it down, it pulls out that sky blue first or those blue signals first. And it not only is biologically pulling out that blue, but emotionally, you see it all change. You see the color get yellower and redder, and it really feels like more of a nighttime environment. I think that we could have done it in a way where it was the exact same color. But I think that the psychological component of seeing it change and seeing it go into these ultra protective, almost red lights really is beneficial to. To set the mood, to kind of get you to wind down. But it also kind of communicates to you that, hey, behaviorally, I should be getting ready for bed. And if you automate it, it's a very profound effect.
