{"id":8818,"date":"2021-06-15T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T09:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=8818"},"modified":"2021-08-12T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T10:13:12","slug":"snooze-and-you-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/snooze-and-you-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Snooze and you lose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With remote working blurring the boundaries between work and home life, many Brits are using their computer screens for longer periods \u2013 and many are not shutting down their laptops until late at night.
\nAccording to one study, evening exposure to intense blue light \u2013 the type emitted by mobile phones and laptops \u2013 has been found to cut our sleep intake by as much as 16 minutes per night.<\/p>\n

With more than 310 working days since the country was first plunged into lockdown in March 2020, this means home workers may have missed out on almost 85 hours of sleep (5,000 minutes) as a result of increased pre-bed screen time.<\/p>\n

And if left unchecked throughout the rest of 2021, we could miss out on a further 5,840 minutes of snooze time \u2013 that\u2019s a staggering 97 hours!<\/p>\n

Haley Fitzpatrick, who works for Apothem (the company that conducted the research), believes it is important everyone takes some simple and effective steps to reclaim this lost time.<\/p>\n

\u201cSleep is vital to all aspects of our h...<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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