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Sleep Is Affected By Social Media

January 27, 2016 By Chen Lai Leave a Comment

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The light emitted by our devices can increase brain activity preventing us from falling asleep.

A recent survey that involved 1,700 participants concluded that sleep is affected by social media. It seems that young people are caught in a vicious cycle in which they cannot sleep, therefore, decide to check their social media accounts which leads to insomnia to kick in.

The book on the nightstand was replaced a couple of years ago with a tablet or a smartphone. People, especially the targeted audience of the study which were male and female individuals between the ages of 17 and 32, seem to think that checking their Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tinder before going to bed is a good way of relaxing and getting ready to catch up on some missing Zs.

But the latest study shows that sleep is affected by social media and this habit is exactly what’s keeping a lot of people from resting up and look fresh in their morning selfies.

The study in question was conducted via a nationwide survey. The list of queries was comprised out of 11 questions developed by the researchers in order to discover if sleep is affected by social media. The questions were focused on the frequency with which the volunteer participants used social platforms like Facebook, Tumblr or SnapChat before going to sleep and the frequency of sleepless nights.

A researcher with a post-doctorate degree, Jessica C. Levinson, who is also the author of the study in question, says this is the first time when somebody researches the link between a poor sleep quality and social platforms. And the results state clearly that sleep is affected by social media.

It seems that a good night’s rest doesn’t depend only on how often or for how long you check your Facebook before going to sleep, but also, the amount of physical exercise you do during the day. According to Levinson, the people who spent more time outdoors and engaged in a physical activity like sports or exercise, and who kept their mobile devices on silent more, slept much better than those who kept in touch with the virtual world.

Levinson says that out of all the volunteer participants in the study, 30% were dealing with some sort of sleep issues. These individuals were also likely to spend an average of 61 minutes a day on social media, which leads to a total of 30 visits on the platforms in a week.

The participants who spent more time on the platforms had up to 50% chances of falling asleep after a longer period of time or even falling asleep at all. This is due to the display units of our devices which stimulate our brain.

Levinson published the study in which she concluded that sleep is affected by social media in the online magazine Preventive Medicine.

If your sleep is affected by social media, experts recommend reading a book or meditating before sleep. The white pages of the book or the calming effects of meditation will help you fall asleep instantly.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: facebook, insomnia, Instagram, sleep problems, smartphone, Snapchat, social media, tablet, Tinder, Tumblr, twitter

Diabetes Drug May Be Cause Of Thyroid Problems

September 23, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

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Metformin, a drug that is commonly prescribed to diabetes patients may be the cause of thyroid problems in some patients. People at risk are those with low levels of what is referred to as thyroid-stimulating hormone aka TSH especially if they have an underactive thyroid according to are recently published study warns.

Low levels of the hormone can cause bone frailty and heart disease however no solid link between the drug and the maladies can be found from the study’s data. It’s reported that 495 incidents of low levels of TSH occurred among participants with underactive thyroids in comparison with 322 participants with normal thyroid function. The participants who with low TSH were given metformin for their diabetes at 55% of the time while others were given sulfonylurea. The study wasn’t 100% conclusive that metformin in combination with low TSH levels caused the problems, the potentiality of such occurred enough of the time to warrant suspicion and further investigation.

The preliminary result predictions paint a warning sign regarding the millions of people with Diabetes II and low thyroid function might be in jeopardy. The potential that metformin might be detrimental to people with low TSH is to blame for thyroid dysfunction, they had to admit that the measurements of the participant’s blood was not done. It will take much more investigative effort to to determine if there is a solid lead here.

Again, no conclusive data has proven the connection but the possibility is there, yet evidence shows that the drug can decrease production of glucose in the liver and this suggests metformin can be the source of unknown side effects in other regions of the body.

Additional data comes from smaller more cross sectional studies pointing to metformin as a drug that might lower TSH levels with patients who have hypothyroidism and diabetes. One collection of data was by the Clinical Practice Research Datalink that collects information from 13 million people from some 680 practices located I the UK who started using metformin or sulfonylurea between the years of 1988 and 2012. In this research some almost 60,000 people had normal thyroids compared to some 5,600 plus who had hypothyroidism. It was discovered that a significant increase of risk of lower TSH levels was found among people treated for hypothyroidism after they were given metformin in comparison with sulfonylurea. The rate of incidence of low TSH levels was found to be 123.2 per 1,000 person-years from metformin in comparison to 79.5 per 1,000 person-years using sulfonylureas.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Clinical Practice Research Datalink, diabetes drug, metformin, sulfonylurea, tablet, thyroid problem, tsh

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