Your bedtime scrolling habit might not be wrecking your sleep after all

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TL;DR

• A study found no clear link between bedtime phone use and poor sleep in adults.
• Both regular and occasional bedtime scrollers reported better sleep than moderate users.
• Researchers say age and how you use your phone may matter more than blue light itself.

For years, we’ve been warned to ditch our phones well before bedtime, with experts saying the blue light is likely to be detrimental to our sleep quality. Turns out, you might not have to feel so guilty about that final scroll after all.

As reported by Gizmodo, a new study titled The Complex Association Between Bedtime Screen Use and Adult Sleep Health found no clear link between nightly screen use and poor sleep among adults. In fact, both occasional and regular bedtime screen users reported better overall sleep health than those who used their phones moderately.




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