Dr. Andrew Huberman

It's just there's a bunch of other stuff in there too, so it doesn't look like a red light panel.

That said, if you are going to do shift work, one of the best things you can do, and it's been shown to reduce cortisol levels at night while you're doing that shift work,

is to filter out some of the blue.

So that is a use case for blue blockers or even for glasses that put you into more reddish conditions, provided you can still do the work you need to do safely.

You will see a dramatic reduction in cortisol under those conditions.

This blue and UV pathway, picked up by a certain set of neurons in the eye,

the intrinsically photosensitive melanopsin cells, et cetera, is a real thing, and it's designed to activate you.

This is why so-called seasonal affective disorder lamps, SAD lamps, are basically bright blue-white-ish light.

So when you're doing that shift work, if you can get into red or orange or amber-like conditions, that's great.

You can do this very inexpensively, by the way, by just getting some party lights.

It doesn't have to be any fancy red light.

This is not talking about red light panels or

The other thing of course is when you get back to your non-work environment,

You need to do some work to think about when is best to sleep, when is not best to sleep.

You know, is it best to sleep all day and be up all night or get that sunlight in the morning?

And I talk about that in the shift work episode.

And I'm tempted to go down that rabbit hole now, but I would just encourage you to take a look at that episode.

And I'll just cue you all to a resource.

The hubermanlab.com website allows you, thanks to our wonderful engineers, to put in multiple topics.

So you could say shift work red light or shift work,