#TGLIFE
Everything about your phone is supposed to make your life easier and entertain you, but what it’s really doing at night before bed is the exact opposite. It’s distracting you, keeping you awake, stimulating your brain and delaying sleep. Here’s how:
Blue light suppresses
melatonin
The blue light that your smart phone emits is not only bad for your vision, but it’s bad is also bad for your brain too. Research has found a correlation between suppressed levels of melatonin and exposure to blue light. Melatonin is a hormone responsible for controlling your sleep-wake cycle. So when your body runs low on it, you can experience insomnia, tiredness during the day and irritability.
Delays REM sleep
Checking your phone right before bed can lead to distracting emotions, thoughts and anxiety. And this reference, is not just to a notification you receive from late night social media sessions, It can also include thinking about or feeling your phone going off under your pillow.
What to do Exprtyd recommend to cut off screen time to one hour before bed. While smart phones are typically the main culprit, tablets and TVs too emit blue light that can contribute to poor sleep.
It’s important to establish a relaxing bedtime routine and avoid all screens.
