Taking smartphones to bed negatively affects sleep health!

Researchers working on sleep health have announced that smartphones have various effects that can disrupt sleep health.

Looking at a phone screen before going to bed prevents the secretion of the sleep hormone and causes you to lose sleep.

Prof. Dr. Levent Öztürk, who conducts studies on sleep health, pointed out that smartphone screens emit bright light, stating, "Because the phone screen emits light in the blue spectrum, it suppresses the secretion of the melatonin hormone, which is secreted by our brain and is important for sleep. This suppression makes it difficult for us to fall asleep and impairs sleep quality while maintaining sleep. Factors such as noises that would not normally wake us up cause us to wake up frequently at night."

Öztürk stated that spending time with a phone in bed also leads to sleep delay.

Explaining that playing games, watching videos, and spending time on social media cause sleep to be postponed, Öztürk said, 'This situation causes a phase shift in sleep and disrupts sleep. Besides this, the content being engaged with can also cause arousal in the person. Falling asleep at a time when one should be transitioning to a state of full rest is once again prevented.'

Additionally, the electromagnetic field emitted by smartphones can also affect sleep health.

Doctors recommend not using phones, tablets, or computers in the bedroom.

As a recommendation, the expert doctor said, 'If a phone must be in the bedroom, it should be at least 2 meters away from the bed. It should not be within arm's reach. Of course, people are now falling into an obsession with constantly checking their phones. People are now constantly checking whether they have received messages on their phones. These also disrupt psychology.'