Screen time is not as bad as we think

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast I talk about screen time, sleep and what the research really tells us about technology use before bed. This is a replay of a Neurolive webinar I did on my app. For the full webinar AD-free, please see Neurocycle.app look for Neurocycle on the App Store or Google Play.

As technology advances, our sleep duration decreases. Or, so we have been told. But, are these two phenomena directly connected? And does this apply to all age groups? When it comes to our circadian rhythm, is screen time always a bad thing?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental
0:08.9	Mess. As technology advances, sleep duration decreases, or so we have been told.
0:17.0	But are these two phenomena directly connected in a cause and effect fashion?
0:22.0	And does this apply to all age groups? It does seem entirely
0:26.3	intuitive to believe that they are and most people have experienced a level of
0:30.9	this happening in their lives, made especially so since we are immersed in this
0:34.8	message that using technology in the evening is bad for sleep.
0:38.8	However, evidence over the past 10 years has actually shown that the link between technology
0:44.7	and sleep is much more nuanced and complex than originally thought, which is what
0:50.1	I'm going to unpack for you in today's podcast.
0:53.0	Just a quick note, if you're hearing this, you are currently not on the Neurocycle
0:57.2	app and will only be hearing the first half of this conversation.
1:00.8	In order to hear the full episode, you will need to subscribe to the Neurocycle app where you can listen to full episodes in the neurolife section and you can listen and watch ad-free and lots of different topics on the Neurocycle app.
1:13.7	The link and details will be in the show notes.
1:16.5	Let's dive in.
1:17.5	Well, welcome back to Tonight's Neural Live and tonight I'm going to be talking about
1:25.6	a screen time really a bad thing.
1:28.9	Now all we hear about is how bad screen time is and how blue, how blue lights are going to blue lights that are emitted from our screens are going to
1:36.4	cause problems by increasing our arousal.
1:39.6	It's been a massive thing as we know for a few years in the well be pretty much the research
1:45.1	across the world has been talking about this so tonight I want to talk about
1:49.4	this and I want to tell you about some new information that is actually saying that it's not such
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