What Happens if You STOP Using Your Cell Phone Before Bed for 14 Days

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Let's talk about how to fix your sleep. The majority of the population uses their phones before bed. Cell phones and other mobile devices expose you to blue light, which powerfully suppresses melatonin, the hormone that helps you sleep.

If your melatonin is too low, you’ll have difficulty getting to sleep. Just a minute and a half of blue light exposure before bed can reduce melatonin. Blue light blockers or blue light glasses can help reduce blue light exposure.

EMF stands for electromagnetic fields. It is invisible radiation that affects the whole body. It damages communication signals within the cells and may increase the risk of cancer.

Trifield measures electromagnetic fields and radio frequencies. It can be helpful to use this device to measure in the areas where you spend a lot of time.

EMF exposure can affect your sleep quality and how deep you sleep. This will affect how you feel the next day.

Alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine interfere with melatonin. Stress before bed and temperatures above 75 degrees Fahrenheit can also affect sleep quality.

Poor sleep can affect your energy level, productivity, cognitive function, focus, concentration, and creativity. Surprisingly, poor sleep can cause blood sugar problems and increase your risk for type 2 diabetes, dementia, and depression.

If you want to improve sleep quality, try using blue light blockers that work and talk on speakerphone.

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0:00.0	What would have happened if you were to stop using your cell phone before bed for just 14 days?
0:05.8	This is going to be very interesting. The majority of the population uses their cell phone before bed,
0:10.0	and there's two big reasons why they should not do that, but if they do use a cell phone,
0:15.2	there are several things you can do to minimize the problem with this.
0:18.7	The first problem with your cell phone and other mobile devices is this thing called blue light.
0:24.4	In the spectrum of visible light, the first band of light is the blue light.
0:29.2	Blue light powerfully suppresses melatonin. Melatonin is the hormone that helps you go to sleep at night.
0:37.6	If your melatonin is too low, you're going to have a hard time going to sleep and the quality of sleep is not going to be that great.
0:43.7	And this is going to lead to a whole bunch of problems the next day.
0:45.9	Now you're probably asking yourself like why out of all the different types of color,
0:50.0	why is blue the one that messes with your melatonin?
0:53.7	Now in order for our bodies to have adapted to the awake and sleep cycles,
0:58.9	certain triggers were necessary.
1:01.2	You have light and darkness, right? And during the day, what is the color of the sky?
1:07.3	Blue. Blue is the most powerful color that suppresses melatonin because during the day, need to be alert and then when it starts
1:14.4	to become nighttime and the sun starts setting maybe the reddish sunset type colors those
1:19.6	actually don't suppress melatonin this is why you should not be exposed to blue light before you go to bed.
1:26.1	But in the LED lighting system in your cell phone and the digital devices, you have a more intense version of this blue light.
1:35.8	Then even where the sun is at peak at 12 o'clock noon,
1:39.8	only 1.5 minutes of exposure to this blue light before bed can start to reduce your
1:46.1	melatonin, especially since it's more intense and it's closer to your eyes.
1:49.8	Now with a TV screen, it's giving up blue light, but it's further away.
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