Ipad Getting Your Melatonin All Types Of Fucked Up

The bright light emitted by an iPad could give some people reading before bedtime a bout of insomnia, researchers suggest.

This is because the iPad uses a back-lit display rather than the "e-paper" found in other popular e-readers such as the Kindle that mimic the printed, duller page by reflecting light from elsewhere.

"If you're using a Kindle — which doesn’t use a significant light source — that may potentially have less of an impact compared to a device like a laptop or an iPad with more significant light exposure," said Alon Avidan, a neurologist and associate director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Sleep researchers have long known that light inhibits the release of melatonin, a hormone that settles the body into sleep mode toward evening time. "Melatonin is pro-sleep," said Frisca Yan-Go, director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center.

Any artificial light source at night, whether it be from a television or a bedside lamp, can mess with the body's melatonin production, Yan-Go said, which rises when darkness falls, then tapers off toward morning as part of a natural cycle called the Circadian rhythm.

According to Yan-Go and other sleep researchers, the reason for concern with the iPad over other forms of late-night light is that readers hold the device relatively close to their face. In theory, this could mean that the iPad affects the body's melatonin cycle more than watching late-night reruns on a television that is clear across the room, Yan-Go said.


And this ladies and gentlemen is exactly why I do all my blogging from a type writer. Now I know what your thinking "how do you blog from a typewriter? they dont even have the internet?" Well Shutup geek squad I got it figured out so just read my shit and shut the fuck up. Back to the matter at hand, You think I can pour out straight genious thoughts all day long 24/7 if I got an Ipad's bright light fucking up all my melatonin levels, answer, no, I can't. I keep my melatonin levels in check. So I do it like I do everything else. Old school. Right now im blogging on my typewriter, rocking my Larry Bird Jersey and just got done fueling up my reebok pumps son. Im all over this shit got the crank radio blasting Roy Orbison in the background and everything. Gotta wrap this blog up right now actually and do some laundry on the washboard so i got some fresh gear for the weekend ya dig.


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