Health Zone: Checking your smartphone in middle of the night is really damaging to your health (Must Read)

It’s something we’re all guilty of. You’re suddenly awake in the middle of the night and decide – for no reason whatsoever – to check your phone .

Sleep experts have warned us over and over how looking at our phones at night can compromise our health.

It’s all to do with the blue light our phone’s screen gives off.

This light tells our body it’s daytime, which means when we do eventually fall back to sleep, that quality of sleep is not as good as it should be.

The blue light “shifts” people’s sleep schedules by up to three hours found researchers at Harvard. Other studies also showed how it prevents people from getting the most restorative REM sleep they need.

Paul Lee, head of technology research at Deloitte told The Metro, “What smartphones enable people to do is to keep tags of what’s happening, what people are saying, what people are posting.

“You can do that throughout the day and what smartphones are encouraging people to do is to do that at night.”

So unless it’s a matter of life or death, make sure you get some good shut eye. Facebook’s not worth it.

-The Metro