Electronic sunset
Of course it's not little animals that rob us of sleep. In reality, it is the radiation that our smartphone emits even at night. That's why experts suggest turning off all electronic devices in the bedroom an hour before going to bed. The electronic sunset, as experts call it, is essential for the development of the sleep hormone melatonin. If the light is too bright, such as on a cell phone display, the release of the hormone can be severely inhibited.Also Dr. In his book The Sleepless Society (2017), Hans-Günther Weeß emphasizes that the constant availability and flow of information on the Internet, and therefore also on our smartphones, is a real sleep killer for many people.
Do not you believe? Then listen to what the stars have to say about it...
Miranda Kerr, model, mother and wife, knows exactly how important it is to put away your phone and stop doing 100 things at once. Before going to bed, she turns off her internet connection and doesn't even take her cell phone into the bedroom. But celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Maria Menounos or Bill Maher and Jeff Weiner also prefer to leave their smartphones outside the bedroom.
We should all take a leaf out of this. And that's exactly why we started a self-experiment!
