Put Your Phone Down
Put your phone down! How creating 'no phone zones' in your day can enhance your brain power, improve your social life, reduce aches and pains and do wonders for your mental health.
Most of us in the UK use our phones for over three hours/day! They are incredibly useful - but using them just a little bit less can have big benefits for your health and wellbeing. Studies have shown that reducing your phone use by one hour each day can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. It can also increase life satisfaction, reduce smoking and enhance physical activity levels. On top of that, limiting social media use to 30 minutes a day has been found to reduce feelings of loneliness. But if you can鈥檛 bear doing any of that, just putting your phone out of sight whilst you鈥檙e doing something can have significant benefits. Michael Mosley speaks to Dr Adrian Ward from the University of Texas at Austin who has found that just the sight of your phone can have a powerful impact on your cognition. He finds out about the alluring pull of our phones on our brains (which can attract our attention even when they鈥檙e off), and why multitasking is a myth!
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