High Tech TV Improves Quality of Sleep
In most cases, doctors, experts and trainers will tell you that to go to sleep you need to power down your devices and lights. This is to help your body start creating melatonin to get good quality sleep so you can rest, recover and wake up firing on all 8 for the next day.
We are joined today by by Dr. Paul Karpecki from Lexington Kentucky. This isn’t your average optometrist, Dr. Karpecki is a Member of the Eyesafe Vision Health Advisory Board, is one of the top 25 dry eye specialists in the world, he’s written over 1000 publications, invited to educate thousands more across four continents, and is currently the Chief Clinic Editor for review of optometry. You and I may not have a subscription but that is the most read publication in optometry.
According to Dr. Karpekci, this isn’t just any TV. “This is an LG display OLED display or Eyesafe Certified. So it’s not just any TV it really is, that’s the only one that’s Eyesafe Certified and that allows it to omit low levels of blue light and it’s been verified. Now you still maintain quality exceptional images which is fascinating. In fact, because each pixel has it’s own light source it creates even better imaging especially in the blacks, and the darks and along those lines. So yes, it’s an LG Display TV,” says Karpecki. “Other TV’s for example, other TV displays on the other hand have a back light to show images so that can be very bright they don’t really handle those deep blacks and those colors you see on an OLED TV. If you take the standard television they’re going to emit probably 70-80 percent blue light and that’s what we talked about is a factor with quality sleep and circadian rhythms as they’re called due to the continued reliance on that back lighting. Compared to just 36 percent so not 70-80 percent, 36 percent blue light emissions with the LG Display technology. And so these OLED TV’s are the ones that allow for that. But what has most fascinated me is a study that just recently came out and in this clinical study it was actually performed for two weeks. So for two weeks they looked at patients who were either watching regular TV screens that were back lit vs the OLED TV screens that are Eyesafe Certified and what they found are really fascinating Is that the patients who watched the regular television had a 2.7 percent decrease in melatonin the opposite direction for quality sleep as you know Patrick vs this technology that had an 8.1 % increase. So the OLED TV Group had an 8.1 percent increase in melatonin which is the hormone that helps us produce quality sleep.”
Why is sleep important? Well if you remember when Mandy was here a few weeks ago, sleep is important to numerous body functions and overall health and wellness. Depriving yourself of quality sleep is also linked to numerous diseases and health risks.
Thank you Dr. Karpekci for taking time to showcase this for us. I know it’s just before the holiday season so while you start your shopping, make sure to look for the Eyesafe Certification when making your next TV purchase.
