White sheets may be bad for your sleep.

[dkf]

Dr. Oz-Approved Sheet Colors Chart

The reason you’re tossing and turning at night might be the color of your bed sheets. Dr. Oz has the guide to the best colors for quality shut-eye.

If you sleep on white sheets, you could be sabotaging your sleep. The whiteness reflects the light, which stops the production of melatonin, the hormone responsible for regulating sleep.
 
Sleep on sheets that are orange, yellow, red and black. Stay away from white as well as blue or green. Use the chart below as a guide.

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/dr-oz-approved-sheet-colors-chart

[TwilightGardener]

1. Try turning the lights off and closing your eyelids. What a maroon.

[dkf]

7. I've got a street light shining right into my room.

I need to do something about this as my insomnia is bad. And yes I do have white sheets and really soft ones too. Boo.

[TwilightGardener]

11. Room-darkening curtains, shades or blinds, then. You can get them with liners.

[iris27]

33. YES. This has been a huge help for our bedroom with four windows.

We were awake right at dawn every morning before we put them up.

[GoCubsGo]

35. I resorted to carboard over the windows.

My neighbors would turn their back porch light on, and it would shine right into my bedroom. I can't afford blackout curtains right now, so I just cut up a box and taped it over my window.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Seriously, check out sustained release melatonin.

Melatonin is a great sleep aid but tends to wear off in about 4 hours, the "sustained" type is slow release. My middle of the night insomnia is much better now.

[dkf]

18. Ooh good idea. Yep it's the middle of the night thing that is the problem.

[GoCubsGo]

34. I found MidNite to work really well.

I was skeptical, but desperate enough to try anything that would put me to sleep after years of waking up at 3 AM, and being unable to go back to sleep. I think it has melatonin in it.

[Contrary1]

65. One melatonin and a cup of Sleepytime Extra Tea 30 minutes before bedtime

does it for me!

[CTyankee]

77. Try a sleep mask. It's pretty effective at keeping you in the dark.

Also, white noise of some sort. In the summer there's a fan and in the winter the humidifier. I also use a white noise machine with the sound of waves on the beach...very rhythmical and soothing...

[GoCubsGo]

36. Yeah, nevermind that the sheets are usually underneath a blanket.

Or, a comforter. It's not like the light will hit them anyway.

I have white sheets and green sheets. If Dr. Oz wants me to sleep on sheets of another color, he can buy them for me.

[WinkyDink]

72. You do know that light can penetrate eyelids, right?

[uppityperson]

82. Do you mean the light that bounces off the sheets under my blankets?

[TwilightGardener]

91. It could, but I don't sleep with lights on or blinds open.

[Ian David]

2. Black sheets show too many white stains. n/t

[catabryna]

12. Have you ever heard of a washing machine?

Ewwwwww! :eyes:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. .... or a beach towel? lol

[catabryna]

20. Let's just hope this person has only one partner...

then again, it could be a solo act! lol!

eta: I'm sure this will be relegated to the lounge shortly.

[Ian David]

21. No, the dog usually licks them off. n/t

[DevonRex]

24. Ian, you are so bad.

I hope this was all in good fun and that the comments above didn't hurt your feelings.

:hi:

[Ian David]

40. It's all good.

[customerserviceguy]

29. You are evil

And funny as hell!

[Ian David]

68. What? It works for the dishes...

[Ellipsis]

88. ...then have him lick your face. You are evil.

[Ian David]

93. I don't USUALLY spurt that far. n/t

[formercia]

87. Yellow is Mellow

Even unsafe sex won't give it away.

[spanone]

3. teevee doctors = teevee preachers....egos on parade.

[Honeycombe8]

43. He's a real doctor who became famous because of his books.

I have his books, adn they're great. If you are interested in how the human body works and have an interest in a healthy lifestyle.

[txwhitedove]

4. But, but what about the thread count??? I sleep best on purple.

[madinmaryland]

53. You're probably one who is worried about rec's and un-rec's on your sheets!!

:P

[HappyMe]

5. lol!

Pay no attention to the Oz behind the curtain.

[mnhtnbb]

6. LOL. I sleep on yellow sheets but my darned orange cat wakes me up!

Does he have any advice or which color of cat is best?

[WillParkinson]

8. If your orange cat is the reason for your yellow sheets...

I think it best not to go with an orange cat. :)

[mnhtnbb]

10. ROFLMAO!

[dkf]

9. Yeah my cat used to jump on my bed every night...sometimes she'd lie on me.

I really miss her.

[PSPS]

15. I really miss my lovable Cymric guy too. He was my best friend.

[dkf]

23. Yup. I swear she used to read my mind.

Whenever I was sad, she would come to me and sit there, then I'd cry all over her. Best cat ever. And worst guy ever...but that's another story.

[PSPS]

13. This is one doctor that deserves quoting -- as in "doctor."

[customerserviceguy]

31. Add Dr. Phil to that

Oprah's probably a nice person, but she's sure elevated some really odd people to prominence.

[Honeycombe8]

44. Dr. Oz's books made him famous. nt

[customerserviceguy]

67. Never heard of any of them

But then, I'm not into the "tell me how to run my life" style of books, either. Television turns the merely well-off into the widely well-known.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

70. Dr. Phil has a Ph.D. in psychology. Dr. Oz is an M.D.

just trying to keep the paper doctors and the M.D.s straight.

[AmirDal]

16. What about sleeping with a night-light on. -- is that just a bad?

[dkf]

25. I would guess its the same thing?

My sisters kids do that, but apparently when you are young you have globs of the stuff.

[emmadoggy]

19. I have chocolate brown fleece sheets that are the greatest thing

since sliced bread, imo. No more freezing cold sheets when I get into bed in the dead of winter. They are ultra soft and cozy. Used to use flannel sheets, but fleece is much better! Love them!

[Peregrine]

22. He has always been a whack job but after his apple juice

has arsenic he is really out there. He was told before broadcast that he was wrong, but he went ahead.

[Honeycombe8]

38. Dr. Oz was correct in his apple juice claims. I saw the show. did you?

He didn't say exactly what others (the apple juice industry) said he said.

Dr. Oz is a legitimate doctor who, at least as far as I know, doesn't take money from corporations to pump up certain products or study results.

He's a pretty good common sense sort of doctor.

[Iggo]

26. *cough*cough*HACK*cough*cough*

Maybe check and see which of his sponsors is selling colored sheets.

[hobbit709]

27. My sheets are tie-dye.

and I have no problem falling asleep.

[uppityperson]

83. The problem though is waking up confused, are you coming or going? Waking or going to sleep?

the colors, they INTERACT!1111

[hobbit709]

95. I can fall asleep any time, anywhere.

One good thing you learn in the military. Grab it while you can, you might not get another chance to sleep for two days or longer.

[PoliticAverse]

28. Finally a good excuse why I never wash my sheets... n/t

[undeterred]

30. Does anyone else wish Dr Oz would get the hell back to the hospital?

I am really sick of Dr. Television.

[Honeycombe8]

42. I think he's great. He's not bought out by corporate America, which is a good thing, right?

Of course, if someone isn't into a healthy lifestyle, I can see where they would find him irritating.

He's written several excellent books. I have them all.

[undeterred]

46. A real doctor who isn't bought by corporate America finds him irritating.

[Honeycombe8]

62. Don't watch him. I rarely do (doctor shows aren't that interesting). But I've read his books.

He's a good guy. He's genuine. He's not a Dr. Phil. I've watched his shows occasionally, when there was something of particular interest to me. I've never heard him once recommend taking a drug. That's impressive, since doctors are mainly schooled in treating conditions through pharmaceuticals. Dr. Oz, OTOH, is pretty knowledgeable about PREVENTION, nutrition, healthy lifestyle, etc., in addition to the traditional medical knowledge.

[Codeine]

50. Really? He is a main advertising arm for RealAge.com's pharma marketing.

He has a major television program that relies heavily on pharmaceutical and supplement advertising dollars. He's the very definition of someone who has been "bought out by corporate America".

[Honeycombe8]

61. Actually, no. He rarely recommends taking drugs, advising instead on a healthy

lifestyle. Something that doctors rarely do.

His books stress this. His books give what seems to me fairly complete information about the various bodily functions, as well as how to be healthy, live longer, age well, etc. But they are written in a lay person's language.

Sure, he's on TV now. It won't last. There are only so many topics for a doctor to discuss. And there are ads for the show, like for all shows. But HE doesn't push drugs, like most doctors. Instead, his recommendations are generally for certain kinds of exercise, how long and how often, eating habits, other lifestyle habits, and avoidance of dangerous substances (that is what recently got him into trouble about the apple juice show).

He's one of the good ones. He's not a Dr. Phil, who is pure show business. And has been for some years, even before he was famous. He was in business here in Dallas, TX....he wasn't practicing psychology or psychiatry or whatever his profession is. He was a partner in a business that produced videos for trials and things like that.

Dr. Oz's wife is a semi-famous author, I think, so it was natural for him to start writing books, with an author in the family.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

71. He was selecting shadow juries for big trials.

They would look at the information on each juror and come up with a person of the same age and background, 12 or 14 of them, and use their shadow jury to predict what the verdict would be.

That is NOT "producing videos for trials".

It takes some knowledge of psychology to use certain types of people to predict their attitudes and opinions.

I worked at the courthouse in a large city for almost 20 years. Jury selection is a sophisticated process now.

[iris27]

32. Dr. Oz is an idiot. What justification does he try to give for why blue and green sheets are bad?

I really wish this dumbass would stop doling out incorrect information under the veneer of medical authority. My nurse mother thinks he walks on water and is now afraid of apple juice. :mad:

[Honeycombe8]

41. He said it's the light reflection quality. But I don't look at my sheets except for

a few seconds when I get into bed. I think he's talking about people who hang out in their bedrooms. I think a lot of people do that. I don't.

Dr. Oz's apple juice show was excellent. Fact: apple juice can legally contain more arsenic than is allowed by our government in tap water. Fact: Some apple juices do in fact contain more arsenic than is allowed in tap water. Fact: Toxins affect children much more than adults because of their small body size.

[On the Road]

37. Actually, I Think the Author Isn't Talking About Sleep Per Se

but about 24-hour rhythms which are built around the amount of light reaching the skin. It's like the trick for minimizing jet leg by lighting the skin (or just the back of the knee) according to daylight hours in the new time zone before traveling.

I would be surprised if this were a major effect. As some other posters have suggested, eliminating as much ambient light in the bedroom is probably the most effective way.

[Honeycombe8]

39. That may make a difference for people who hang out in their bedrooms...

reading and such, watching TV with the light on, etc. But when I go to bed, I do watch TV, but I'm ready for bed/sleep, and I turn the lights off. I also have a coverlet. I'm lucky in that I go to sleep fairly quickly & sleep like a rock. I only see the color the sheets when I turn the covers down to get in, just for a few seconds, and that's it. I use white sheets most of the time.

[edbermac]

45. Buy an eye shade for crying out loud

[Initech]

47. This is the same guy who says arsenic in apple juice is ok.

[ErikJ]

48. BLACK PILLOW CASE -OK but sheets?

Sounds like woo-woo science to me.

[jberryhill]

49. That is simply idiotic

Even if one cannot figure out how to sleep in a dark room, try covering your body with a blanket.

[Motown_Johnny]

51. that was my thought... the light is making it to my body?

This seems pretty unlikely....



....and if white is reflecting the light, then wouldn't it be reflecting light AWAY from my body since the light needs to pass through the sheet to get to me?

[panzerfaust]

52. KKK has known that for years ...

No, NOT the KKK
These are just the traditional costumes of those who helped drive the Jews from Spain in (wait for it) 1492.

Here is the real deal

As of June 2011, our Gov (soon President?) Perry supported putting the Confederate flag on Texas license plates.

No matter what color my sheets (generally light yellow - with the Eiffel Tower or Fish on them) I have trouble sleeping when I think of where we are headed as a nation.

[madinmaryland]

54. What about brown sheets. At least they hide the skid marks the cat leaves!!

:puke:

[Mimosa]

56. LOL, you get those too...

My old kitteh needs to wear underpants!

[madinmaryland]

60. The only ones that do it are black long-haired cats. Of course, one was

a maine-coon, who if he didn't get fed at 6:00am promptly would resort to hacking up a hairball LOUDLY to get us to feed him!

[dionysus]

66. my coon eats toilet paper and throws it up next to the bed as a last resort to wake me.

:grr:

[Mimosa]

55. OZ is nutty

When the lights are OUT, the white, blue or green sheets are not reflecting light.

BTW, none of my sheets are those white. LOL

[RebelOne]

57. I have watched Dr. Oz on daytime TV,

and some of his remedies and advice on what to eat are a little over the top, If I believed that all the juices and fruits would cure all my ailments, then I wouldn't have room in my refrigerator for all of them. And my medicine cabinet would be packed with all the supplements he recommends.

[GoCubsGo]

74. Yep, at it surprises me.

He's supposed to be such a well-respected doctor, but he sure does peddle an awful lot of snake oil and questionable remedies. "The Doctors" are just as bad. And, don't get me started on Dr. Phil... Dr. Oz used to give out nothing but good advice, especially back when he teamed up with Dr. Roisen. I really don't understand what happened to him.

[whistler162]

58. I think Dr. Oz is bad for your health!

[bananas]

59. But white pillowcases are ok?

Here's his approved colors - apparently white pillowcases are ok?
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/dr-oz-approved-sheet-colors-chart

[Warren DeMontague]

63. Black LEATHER sheets.

that's what I'm talkin' about.

[AsahinaKimi]

64. Do you think that

KKKers get sleepless nights? I certainly hope so.

[MrScorpio]

69. I sleep in a completely darkened room

No light, no reflections!

[Dover]

73. I would think that goes for white painted rooms as well.

All I can say is that I'm sleeping really really well on persimmon (orange) sheets with walls painted in earthy beige/terracotta accent wall. It just feels peaceful and secure. Never thought about why it feels so much better, but the room used to
be sort of a light sea blue/green. So there ya go.

[Kaleva]

75. A problem the KKK continues to ignore

[RegieRocker]

80. Lol

[Dover]

76. Advertising and Design firms understand color psychology and light

Many restaurant chains stick with appetite enhancing colors and many grocery stores also entice the senses with the smell of cinnamon.
If I'm not mistaken these appetite-enhancing colors are 'warm' Fall type colors which makes some sense if our bodies are taking cues from the seasons.
And by extension it also makes sense that Fall season colors would induce better sleep as well. Who knows, it may even be linked physiologically to melatonin release.
There's a long history of studies on how our senses respond to various stimulus. I'm not sure what studies Dr. Oz
is working from, but I'll bet there is plenty of precedent for it.

[Dover]

78. Take a "Color Personality' test

http://www.viewzone.com/luscher.html

[RegieRocker]

79. Anyone tuned into this episode of this desperado for subject

matter and didn't turn it off is a part of the problem. The fact we are discussing it is sad. My remedy for those concerned and unable to darken windows, eyelid implants.

[graywarrior]

81. What if you're color blind?

[uppityperson]

84. What if you're blind? What if you're albino and don't have melatonin in your skin?

What if you sleep with and albino? Maybe paint them red?

[graywarrior]

90. !

:rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

85. Good thing he doesn't mention anything bad about sleeping in Superman underpants.

Not that I know anyone that wears Superman underpants to bed, I'm just saying that it's a good thing.

[xmas74]

86. But white sheets are better for thrift.

They can be bleached (whether you use bleach, peroxide, lemon juice, etc) and it's easier to match the color to replace just one piece instead of a full set. Colors may be harder to match, unless you can find replacements dyed in the same batch.

As to black sheets-they always felt hotter to me in the summer.

[BiggJawn]

89. Blackout shades, cover over the clock...

... And it wouldn't matter if the sheets were hiway worker yellow, I can't see them.

Of course, if you sleep on white sheets and dream of burning crosses...

[alarimer]

92. Oz is a fucking idiot.

Why would anyone listen to that quack? Woo-meister extraordinaire, just like Oprah.

[madokie]

94. Dr Oz

I have to tolerate his ass when wifie gets home from work now I have to put up with him on du. shame shame shame.
juskid'n

[TroglodyteScholar]

96. Hard to believe...

...that in a word search of this thread, "quack" returns no results.

Allow me to change that.

[JCMach1]

97. If it is reflecting, it's the LIGHT that's the problem....

How did that guy get his medical degree???