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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