Improve your sleep quality within 1 week by quitting this harmful habit

( Natural News ) One in three Americans have trouble sleeping, but a recent study has revealed that avoiding one habit can help improve it. European researchers found that avoiding the use of gadgets, like phones, tablets, and computers, is key to getting better sleep . Previous research has shown that exposure to blue light – the kind of light found in gadgets – has negative effects on sleeping patterns. The recent study, which was a collaboration between researchers from the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience , the Amsterdam University Medical Center , and the Dutch International Institute for Public Health and the Environment , was a randomized controlled trial involving Dutch adolescents aged 12 to 17. The researchers studied the participants’ screen time use, aiming to find out how adjusting blue light exposure may affect sleep. There were two groups of participants: frequent users (with fours hours of average screen time use) and infrequent users (who only look at phones for an hour or less). The participants reported the effects on their sleep when they did the following before bed: used their phones as usual; wore light-blocking glasses; and refrained from using their phones at all. After five weeks, researchers found that using light-blocking glasses and refraining from using phones altogether resulted in the participants sleeping 20 minutes earlier than usual. Moreover, the participants reported positive results after just one week. There was a reduction in symptoms of sleep loss and better sleep quality overall. The researchers presented their findings at the annual European Society of Endocrinology meeting, ECE 2019, in Lyon, France. They hope to conduct studies on adult participants as well and see if their findings could apply to them as well. Discover how to prevent and reverse heart disease (and other cardio related events) with this […]

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