Vanessa Hill

And people came together and they just couldn't reach a consensus on if it was harmful.

Kids are a lot more sensitive to the effects of blue light than adults are.

So it's not recommended.

And kids' screen time, I will say, is a whole other conversation that we could talk about for another hour.

So that is the thinking behind that.

Exactly.

From a real-life practical perspective, there isn't much impact.

Researchers have even wondered, okay, does the type of content matter?

There have been studies where they have shown people suspenseful shows that end on a cliffhanger compared to...

boring environmental documentaries and there hasn't really been an impact of that either so really it just comes back to you and a lot about sleep is personalized what are your preferences what do you find relaxing

For some people, what they find relaxing are watching YouTube videos of pressure cleaning and drain cleaning and people scrubbing rust off metal parts in their garage, right?

No, I mean, that's what some people like.

Some people like listening to true crime podcasts that have so much gory detail and they actually find that relaxing and can listen to that 10 minutes before they go to sleep, right?

It is so personalized about what we need in order to honestly just distract our mind a little bit from its own thoughts and help us wind down and blip into sleep.

In the research, TV is often called passive media because it's not interactive in the way where we scroll through it.

We can swipe out of one thing and into another.

We can accidentally end up in our work email and we have no idea how we got there because our thumbs just kind of took us there when we were really thinking.

So there is some research that indicate passive media may benefit our sleep or may not have an impact as much as active media, which are things like scrolling through social media, texting with your friends, gaming, things that really require you to...

Honestly, be swiping or using a controller or whatever it may be and be really engaged in what you're doing.

What I like to recommend is that people find a TV show or some kind of content that is longer form that they find relaxing and watch that before they go to bed.