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3 ways technology can ruin your sleep
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By Suppressing Melatonin Release
When the brain detects green or blue light, it automatically restricts the output of melatonin - a hormone which regulates circadian rhythm. Electronic devices regular emit these kinds of light and will negatively affect your sleep! Maybe consider making your bedroom a technology-free zone.
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By Keeping Your Brain Alert
Part of good sleep hygiene is to have a good mechanism to relax and drift into sleep, to you this might mean surfing the web or using social media. Technology can trick your brain into thinking that it needs to be awake.
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By Waking You Up
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night due to a string of late night text messages? What about having your early phase 1 light sleep interrupted by email notification? All these miniature interruptions can add up, and before long you've lost almost an hour of sleep.
Sleep and Technology
Technology that can improve your sleep
A lot of technology is marketed as means help you improve your sleep or smart technology which accounts for how you sleep. It is important to note that most of these commercial products are not well studied and is certainly not a magic pill that can help you achieve sound sleep. This is where it is important to learn more about the products and how it could potential help your own individual sleeping profile.
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Examples of sleep technology:
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Sleep tracking technology: these devices function through tracking your body (Heart Rate, body movements, etc.) throughout the night to determine the quality of sleep you have. This data can be utilized to give a sleep a more accurate depiction of their own sleeping patterns which can then be acted on.
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Sleep optimizing technology: the devices make sure optimize the physical conditions to help you sleep. These conditions usually include adjusting light, sound and temperature to account for your natural sleep cycle.
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