For those who just love late night reading in the tablets and smartphones, now there’s a good news for all of them.
As a recent study has now stated that daytime light exposure can be helpful in fighting sleep disturbances, which may be caused due to the late night use of electronic gadgets.
The study has further revealed that an ample exposure to the daytime bright light can help the young people ,who usually used self-luminous gadgets for up to two hours in evening in getting a sound sleep.
The levels of hormone which does affects, the sleep-wake cycle in humans – melatonin – were not affected in any of the significant way, the study revealed.
“However, one has to keep in mind that the utilizing electronic devices for the sake of further checking your work e-mails or some social network accounts before, snoozing may also lead to sleep disturbances because they may cause emotional arousal,” explained Christian Benedict, Associate Professor at Uppsala University.
Using phone late night, does not affect your sleep
Previous research has been associated with the evening use of smartphones and tablets with sleep disturbances, as well as the blindness in adverse cases.
According to a study, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, two women has been affected by the transient smartphone “blindness” in one of the eyes due to the gazing their smartphones right before they slept.
The current study has been published in the journal of the Sleep Medicine for which the team has compared the effects of bedtime reading in the case of a tablet versus an actual book in around fourteen young women and men from Sweden.
Moreover, the participants were further asked to read from 9 pm to 11 pm, half of them being were asked to use a tablet and the other half had to read a hard book. The study concluded that there were no differences in the pre-sleep saliva melatonin levels and also the sleep parameters between the two groups.
