Blue light from your phone and computer reaches your retina and suppresses melatonin, messing with your sleep cycle. The speaker recommends stopping screen time 1-2 hours before bed to avoid insomnia.
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Is it's overstimulation. Being on all these devices, we're stimulating through the blue light and through the scatter, we're stimulating so many areas of our brain. Essentially, when we talk about the eyes, the eyes are just the vessel where that blue light hits, and then it goes straight to your, your brain. And that's where it's sending. It's changing your metabolism, it's changing hormone or having direct effects on your hormone levels, your sleep cycle, everything. And I think the signs of digital overload, the biggest sign is your ability to sleep. And there are so many patients who have insomnia or are taking sleeping pills, and there's an obvious sign that is that blue light. And we only need a little bit of it. We need a lot to cause disease, but we only need a little bit of it to mess up our sleep wake cycle and our circadian rhythm. And having that detox one to two hours before sleeping is so huge because once you get that blue light hit your retina, you are suppressing melatonin production, and that has been shown in countless studies. And your body's not going to know that you need to sleep, and that's why you're so awake.
