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Quick Summary Blue light from screens delays sleep by just 2 to 5 minutes under realistic conditions, not the hours that marketing suggests. The 2023 Cochrane review found blue-light-blocking glasses produced inconsistent and unreliable sleep improvements across 17 trials. Screen brightness, proximity to your face, and emotionally engaging content all matter more for sleep than … Read more
Reading Time: 8 Minutes Walk into any pharmacy and you will find an aisle of products promising to save your sleep from blue light. Glasses for $20. Glasses for $80. Screen protectors, light bulbs, night-mode apps, and specialized lamps, all built on the same premise: blue light from your screens is destroying your melatonin, wrecking … Read more
Quick Summary Doomscrolling is the compulsion to keep scrolling through negative news despite feeling worse, and it’s driven by specific brain mechanisms, not weak willpower Your brain’s negativity bias and the dopamine-anxiety feedback loop make alarming content nearly impossible to ignore The same variable reward mechanism that makes gambling addictive powers doomscrolling Breaking the cycle … Read more
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