Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

How to Improve Sleep: Control Your Screens and Environment

23 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD offering practical sleep-improvement tips focused on controlling screens and the bedroom environment. In this excerpt he warns against holding blue-light-emitting devices close to the face, distinguishes casual TV-watching from device use, and recommends keeping the bedroom darker and about 1–2 degrees cooler.

Questions this video answers

About 1 to 2 degrees cooler.

Phones, pads, tablets (blue-light-emitting devices).

Block ambient light so the room is dark.

Chapters

And then the screen thing, which is the hardest thing. People are on their screens, their phones, their pads, their tablets, whatever it is. I'm not talking about a TV where you're watching a program with your wife, Peyton. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about this blue light stuffed up against your face so you, like, get your phone away from you. Yep. And then where you sleep, the room needs to be a little bit cooler, 1 to 2 degrees cooler. You need the ambient light or the light coming in the room to be blocked, so the room needs to be dark.