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143: Dr David Cunnington (MD) - Sleep Specialist, Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre

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The Negative Effects of Screen Time on Sleep

Melatonin to the eyes is like the midday sun biologically to our body clocks and that he's going to be a looting and make it harder to get to sleep. To someone who's a digital native like an adolescent in 2018 yes yeah i'm almost settled for them having the phone as a distractor because they don't deal with empty space particularly well so you know we talked about having that eight hour window thinking for seven hours of sleep and some winding down time at the start. Once you're switching to right i'm going to bed mode then it's screen down switched to something that's not got that light in itYeah that's where a book something like that can be helpful because that'll

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