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Medical Video: HEAL while you SLEEP ~ With this UNBELIEVABLE POWER
In the current era of modern technology, it is only natural to go home to unwind after a day of activities by playing cellphones before going to bed to read funny tweets or continue the latest episodes of your favorite TV series on a laptop.
But if lately you have more difficulty sleeping at night, maybe your electronic device's screen is to blame. The beam of light from a cellphone or laptop screen before going to sleep at night can not only damage sleep patterns, but is also believed to endanger the health of our body in general. Wow, why?
Playing cellphones before bed interferes with the body's biological clock
Everyone has a different body biological clock (circadian rhythm), but generally 24 hours and 15 minutes. Circadian rhythms from people who like to sleep late will be longer, while the rhythm of people who are diligent in getting up early will be shorter than 24 hours.
Circadian rhythms work in response to changes in bright and dark light. Different wavelengths of light have different effects on the production of melatonin, the sleep hormone. So called because melatonin will be at its lowest level during the day, and begins to be released in greater amounts several hours before bedtime as the body's way of saying, "Hey, it's time for you to sleep" and peaked at midnight - at the darkest time when you sleep. Once the body is exposed to the morning sun (natural light), the body's biological clock will repeat its cycle by stopping the production of this sleepy hormone maker.
The human body is found to be weakest against the spectrum of blue light, which is also found in the beam of light from the screen of electronic devices. When you spend time playing cellphones before going to sleep, the bright rays of the cell phone mimic the nature of the sun's light. As a result, the body's biological clock considers this light as a signal that it is still morning, and therefore the production of melatonin is disrupted. In short, hours of playing HP before going to bed actually make you more enthusiastic so you need more time to finally be able to sleep. In fact, even after a considerable night's sleep, people who are busy staring at the HP screen before going to bed are found to be more difficult to get up early and slower and easily drowsy all day.
Changes in sleep patterns ruffle the body's biological clock system, which in turn brings adverse health effects. This is because the body's biological clocks not only control our awareness and alertness but also regulate the "working hours" of every organ in the body. In other words, stress factors that affect the function of our body's biological clock, such as the emission of a screen of electronic devices, can have more serious consequences than we thought.
Playing your cellphone before going to bed makes it easy for you to get sick
Research has linked the poor quality and quantity of sleep to decreasing creativity, gathering athletic performance, lack of focus, and being more vulnerable to stress. Impaired circadian rhythms due to decreased levels of melatonin in the body have also been found to be associated with risk factors for obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and several types of cancer, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer.
Sleep deprivation is also associated with a number of other diseases. For example, research shows that sleep-deprived people have higher levels of inflammatory trigger proteins in their bloodstream than people who sleep adequately. The C-reactive protein content, which is associated with a risk of heart attack, is higher in people who get to sleep only six hours or less throughout the night.
Even dimly lit room lights can disrupt the circadian rhythm and body melatonin production, said Stephen Lockley, a sleep researcher from Harvard. Light at night is an important factor in part because so many people don't get enough sleep at night, Lockley said. Researchers have also linked lack of sleep with an increased risk of depression. So, still want to play cellphones before going to bed?
