Natural blue light during the day makes total sense as it enables us to see and boosts alertness and performance. However, with digital screens almost everywhere you look, we unnaturally extend our blue light exposure after sunset, stretching our waking life beyond the limit. As a result, we unknowingly compromise our sleep-wake cycle. Thankfully, there are easy ways to combat poor sleep patterns. In this article, we’ll help you discover how to get a better night's sleep, naturally, without the use of sleep aids.
Being sleep-deprived is not a badge of honor. Even though restricting sleep might gain you that much-needed time to complete important tasks, a broken sleep-wake cycle (or "circadian rhythm") can have a lasting negative impact on your health, relationships, and general human performance.
In fact, a study by the American Psychological Association suggests that inadequate sleep can cause a range of neurobehavioral deficits, “including a lapse of attention, slower working memory, reduced cognitive throughout, depressed mood, and preservation of thought.” Check out our FAQs below for the study.
While some people remain oblivious to the effects of blue wavelengths on your internal clock and your body’s natural sleep-wake cycle – others are discovering how to fall asleep faster for optimal health.
Do you want that competitive edge?
Protecting against blue light is the one incremental improvement you're not thinking about.
Restricting the use of digital devices in the hours prior to sleep in order to block blue light from their bodies.
Meditating sometimes for several hours in order to ensure a good sleep.
Avoiding alcoholic and caffeinated beverages which have been shown to negatively impact sleep quality.
Opting for a light dinner instead of a heavy one.
Keeping the room temperature at an optimal level.
Sticking to a set sleep routine to put their minds in the right place and turn sleeping into a habit.
Better Sleep Starts With Better Light Protection
In a perfect world, the best way to address trouble sleeping is to avoid blue light at least four hours before bedtime. But let’s be real here. Very few people can pull this off, and many still doubt the effects of excessive blue light, though it's been well-documented.
While blue light blocking glasses have exploded in popularity, Swannies are considered by over 155,000 satisfied customers as the best blue light blocking solution for better sleep.
If you want to sleep better, you need to focus on effectively blocking excessive artificial blue light to encourage the production of melatonin – the human brain’s natural sleep hormone. Swannies Blue Light Blocking Glasses are designed with this goal in mind.
What Exactly Makes Our Blue Light Blockers So Special?
Our Swannies lenses are designed to help protect your eyes from blue light while supporting your natural sleep and circadian rhythm.
Nearly 99% Blue Light Blocking
Our proprietary Swannies Orange lenses block nearly 99% of blue light between 400–500nm, including the wavelengths most associated with melatonin suppression.
Science You Can Trust
Our Day and Night Swannies lenses are independently tested to measure their blue-light transmission, giving you confidence in what your glasses are actually blocking.
Support Your Natural Sleep Cycle
Blue-light exposure at night can interfere with your body's natural sleep signals. Swannies help reduce nighttime blue-light exposure so you can wind down, relax, and prepare for better sleep.
What benefits can you expect?
Experience premium blue light protection designed to support your focus, relaxation, and sleep without changing your daily routine.
How Do Swannies Blue Light Glasses
Swanwick is the only blue light blocking glasses brand in the world with many published studies that show the benefits of sleep and performance as well as independent third-party spectral transmission reports.
The Non-Negotiable Biohack You’ve Been Missing
While science backs up the effectiveness of Swannies, community trust raises the bar even more as Swannies blue light blocking lenses can be found on the faces of sleep, health, and biohacking experts, entrepreneurs, prominent actors, NBA, NFL, MLB players, Olympians, UFC fighters and other professional sportspeople. Even the U.S. Military and America’s first responders love the benefits that Swannies blue light lenses have given them.
Designed For Real Life
From productive mornings to restful nights, the Circadian System fits naturally into every part of your daily routine.
Everything You Need To Know
Find answers to the most common questions about the Swanwick Circadian Snap-On System, lenses, shipping, and returns.
Here at Swanwick, we regularly have our Day and Night Swannies lens transmission independently lab tested by Colts Laboratories. We believe in transparency when it comes to the science behind our Swannies Blue Light Blocking Glasses.
That is why, when choosing where to purchase blue light blocking glasses, we recommend you check whether transmission reports from an independent testing facility are available.
Here's ours for you:
Night Swannies block over 99% of blue light between 400-500nanometers, and around 80% of green light from 400-550nm.
Day Swanniesblock 98% of blue light at 400 nanometers, graduating to 45% at 450nm (the most harmful part of the spectrum). Day Swannies also block between 21-45% of blue light between 450-500 nanometers.
Over the past decade, the effects of blue light have been extensively researched and studied by scientists and universities all over the world. Numerous independent scientific studies have shown the impact of blue light on both sleep and eye health.
Check out Swannnies.com/science if you need more information and check out the comprehensive study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology here or the write up about it in Harvard Business Review published here.
Swannies Day Glasses are blue light blocking clear lenses and are 100% UV rated and will protect your eyes from UV rays. They are not tinted or polarized, however, so you may find that the sun still appears bright while wearing them.
Also, you should never look directly at the sun, regardless of whether you are wearing protective glasses or not. (But, we're sure you already knew that. 😁)
Yep! Our Swannies custom prescription glasses have the same tinted lens designed to provide you with the same blue light blocking protection as our non-prescription line. This includes 100% UV protection and anti-glare coatings on the front and back of each lens.
We've been told by our fans and customers that our Swannies prescription glasses with our blue light blocking technology are higher quality than any other blue light blocking prescription lenses available on the market.
If you wear prescription glasses and are worried like most about the dangers of blue light exposure, you owe it to yourself to try our Swannies prescription lenses, available in many of our most popular frame styles.
Get yourself a quality pair of the best blue light blocking glasses, today.
Users have reported animmediatereduction in eye strain, headaches, sore eyes, blurry vision and other symptoms of digital eye strain.
It can take one day or up to a couple of weeks of cumulative use to notice improvements in sleep, depending on the person. It is important to wear our blue light glasses for at least two hours before bed and not take them off until all lights have been turned off. Some people find that wearing them for longer periods of time, such as from sundown onward gives them the best results, so we recommend you experiment with what works for you!
We've already shown you our blue light lenses transmission test results. We've also shown our brand specifically being studied by numerous authorities with results published in medical journals and Harvard Business Review.
We have over 155,000 Swannies customers who wear blue light glasses (ours) and swear by them. We know scientifically that the less blue light exposure before bed, the better you'll sleep.
We know that the NFL, MLB, NBA, UFC and other high performance athletes use chooseSwanniesto block blue light both during the day with our daytime clear/yellow lenses, and before bed with our nighttime glasses because they know the blue light blocked is maximal without completely distorting vision.
So, do blue light blocking glasses really work?We've got proof that ours do. Do most blue light glasses work? Definitely not. Are there other blue light glasses that work? Many of our direct competitors we've had tested independently and they've come up lacking, therefore we cannot recommend them.
If you're concerned about harmful blue light and know the blue light filters on your phone aren't sufficient (because they're a software solution to a hardware problem) and you want to give our blue light blocking glasses a try, we'll guarantee you're satisfied, or you'll get your money back. We'll even pay the return shipping!
So, you've got nothing to lose. Try our blue light blocking glasses today, and sleep better tonight. Wake up stronger tomorrow. Perform at your peak and remember what it's like to feel truly alive.
Can a pair of blue light blocking glasses do all that?
Your best chance is with Swannies.
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