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Bedroom-Invading Smartphones Jumble Body’s Sleep Rhythms

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Bedroom-Invading Smartphones Jumble Body’s Sleep Rhythms

By Jason Gale  Jan 7, 2014 2:28 PM ET

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Having trouble sleeping? Check for a glow, inches from the pillow.

Using a smartphone, tablet or laptop at bedtime may be staving off sleep, according to Harvard Medical Schoolscientists, who have found specific wavelengths of light can suppress the slumber-inducing hormone melatonin in the brain.

“We have biologically shifted ourselves so we can’t fall asleep earlier,” said Charles A. Czeisler, a professor of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School. “The amazing thing is that we are still trying to get up with the chickens.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-07/bedroom-invading-smartphones-jumble-body-s-sleep-rhythms.html

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