I hate to nitpick an otherwise well-intentioned and decent article, but on the point with regard to melatonin, the author makes the following suggestion:
"[If you cannot resist checking your device before bed, then] hold it at least 14 inches away from your face to reduce the risk of sleep interference." This is utter hogwash, for two reasons:
1) Good luck reading a smartphone screen from a distance of 14 inches. This is an unrealistic suggestion.
2) The light intensity and your reception thereof is basically unchanged, which is all that is needed to hem melatonin production. Small amounts of light are enough to disrupt this mechanism. I would cite some good papers as evidence, but I currently cannot find them. I suggest to anyone interested to do research into the properties of melatonin --- it's pretty interesting, not to mention useful.
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Maybe google should penalize Time or Health.com?
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TIME was never really a bastion of top journalism; it was a very popular news magazine but even looking back almost 100 hundred years it has depended on publicity gimmicks like "Man of the Year".
They've also resorted to what I like to think of as 'scamverts' - those adverts for absolutely lowest-common-denominator articles like "how to get an iPad for $15", provided - in this case - by a third-party service called 'Taboola'. Totally devalues the parent brand (i.e. Time) in my opinion.
For those interested in improving the whole "screen lights mimic the sun and keep you awake" thing, consider checking out Flux -- https://justgetflux.com/
It adjusts the colors of your screen late at night.
If you're on Linux, Redshift is a good alternative to Flux. It's in Fedora and Ubuntu package managers - 'yum install redshift' or 'apt-get install redshift' respectively (if memory serves).
Or you have hypothyroidism, and need to treat it (I am gathering more data on myself, I will write about it when I have enough interesting data to write a full blown article).
Yes, TIME sure has a point there,
I noticed that taking extra vitamins and exchanging coffee and cola for water and pure juice definitely improved my overall performance
Not related to the article, but I really like time.com’s new-ish (http://time.com/13113/time-coms-redesign/) design. They have finally understood that people do not want to click through to the next page. I found myself scrolling down to read other articles, which was as painless as reading through a paper magazine.
"[If you cannot resist checking your device before bed, then] hold it at least 14 inches away from your face to reduce the risk of sleep interference." This is utter hogwash, for two reasons:
1) Good luck reading a smartphone screen from a distance of 14 inches. This is an unrealistic suggestion.
2) The light intensity and your reception thereof is basically unchanged, which is all that is needed to hem melatonin production. Small amounts of light are enough to disrupt this mechanism. I would cite some good papers as evidence, but I currently cannot find them. I suggest to anyone interested to do research into the properties of melatonin --- it's pretty interesting, not to mention useful.