Putting Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer
By raising levels of the
stress-related hormone cortisol, our phone time may also be threatening our
long-term health.
Pharafrase:
Our phone time may also threaten our long-term
health by increasing levels of stress-related hormone cortisol.
If you’re like many people, you may
have decided that you want to spend less time staring at your phone.
Pharafrase:
You may have decided to spend less time staring at
your phone if you're like many people.
It’s a good idea: an increasing body of evidence suggests that the time we spend on our
smartphones is interfering with our sleep, self-esteem, relationships, memory,
attention spans, creativity,
productivity and problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Pharafrase: It's a good
idea: a growing body of evidence suggests that the time we spend on our
smartphones interferes with our sleep, self-esteem, relationships, memory,
spans of attention, creativity, productivity, problem-solving and
decision-making abilities.
But there is another reason for us
to rethink our relationships with our devices. By chronically raising levels of
cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone, our phones may be threatening our
health and shortening our lives.
Pharafrase: There is another
reason why we should rethink our relationships with our devices. Our phones may
threaten our health and shorten our lives by chronically raising levels of
cortisol, the main stress hormone of the body.
Until now, most discussions of
phones’ biochemical effects have focused on dopamine, a brain chemical that
helps us form habits — and addictions. Like slot machines, smartphones and apps
are explicitly designed to trigger dopamine’s release, with the goal of making
our devices difficult to put down.
Pharafrase: Most discussions
of the biochemical effects of phones have so far focused on dopamine, a brain
chemistry that helps us form habits — and addictions. Smartphones and apps,
like slot machines, are explicitly designed to trigger the release of dopamine,
with the goal of making it difficult to put down our devices.
This manipulation of our dopamine
systems is why many experts believe that we are developing behavioral
addictions to our phones. But our phones’ effects on cortisol are potentially
even more alarming.
Pharafrase: This
manipulation of our dopamine systems is why many experts believe that our
phones are developing behavioral addictions. But the effects of our phones on
cortisol may be even more alarming.
Cortisol is our primary
fight-or-flight hormone. Its release triggers physiological changes, such as
spikes in blood pressure, heart rate and blood sugar, that help us react to and
survive acute physical threats.
Pharafrase: Cortisol is our
primary hormone for combat or flight. Its release triggers physiological
changes that help us react to and survive acute physical threats, such as
spikes in blood pressure, heart rate and blood sugar.
These effects can be lifesaving if
you are actually in physical danger — like, say, you’re being charged by a
bull. But our bodies also release cortisol in response to emotional stressors where an increased heart rate isn’t going to do much good,
such as checking your phone to find an angry email from your boss.
Pharafrase: These
effects can be life-saving if you're in physical danger— like, say, a bull charges
you. But in response to emotional stressors, our bodies also release cortisol
where an increased heart rate will not do much good, such as checking your
phone to find an angry email from your boss.
Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/well/mind/putting-down-your-phone-may-help-you-live-longer.html
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