Dependențele digitale și deficiența de somn
Digital addictions and sleep deficiency

Summary/Abstract: Scientific papers show that quality sleep helps people live longer and with a higher quality of life, improves memory and creativity, reduces appetite and maintains optimal physical shape, protects against dementia, diabetes and cancer, strokes and heart attacks, anxiety, depression and a whole procession of mental conditions. The overall number of disorders that lack of sleep or poor quality sleep produces is over a hundred.The same researches, however, discovered that in the last hundred years, at the level of mankind, the period of sleep has been significantly reduced, especially in highly industrialized countries, which makes it a real epidemic, with serious effects on the physical and mental health of man. The deliberate choice of shortening the sleep period is therefore a true genetic engineering technique, the results of which are dramatic, an act of self-euthanasia.An essential cause of sleep deprivation or poor sleep quality is the excessive use of digital technology, and especially in the late hours of the series. „Digital blue”, the colour of screens, severely affects the secretion of melatonin, the sleep-inducing hormone, through what scientists call „physiological lying”. Being the colour of the dawn, the blue of the screens „tricks” the pituitary gland, keeping the brain attentive and alert, even several hours after the cessation of their use. Using digital technology two hours before bedtime delays the peak time of melatonin secretion by another three hours, to the early hours of the morning. Against such conduct, some principles of sleep hygiene are recommended, for healthy and natural development, especially of children and young teenagers, the most vulnerable consumers.

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