Have you ever checked how long you spent using your phone? If you spend hours in a day accessing your phone, you should be vigilant. Cathrine Price, author of the book "How to Break Up with Your Phone " and the trigger of the "Screen/Life Balance " movement reveals, the less time we spend on the phone, the longer our life expectancy. Conversely, if you feel at home for a long time operating your phone, your health can be impacted.
Coristol hormones trigger physical changes, such as rising blood pressure, heartbeat, and blood sugar that help humans respond, both in controlling and against potential physical threats. That is, this hormone can give signals when the physique feels threatened.
The body will remove the coristols to respond to the emotional stressor when the heartbeat is less able to control the emotional stresses that come. Related to the mobile phone, "threats " occur can vary and take other forms. For example, getting e-mails or annoying messages, monitoring unpleasant timelines, reading news of grief or angry news, reading bad comments and so on.
The health problem triggers
Price says Koristol is not a problem if it happens occasionally. But with the longer you use the phone, the more information gets, the more potential stress it receives, the results, the coristol will have a bad impact.
Dilansir KompasTekno of the New York Times, Monday (29/4/2019), the average American spends time playing mobile phones about four hours a day.
The number is obtained from the health tracker app called "Moment ". The results, according to Google, are more mobile phones used for social media, e-mail, and news applications, resulting in unwanted pressure.
"The level of human coristol will increase while using a cell phone or placing a cell phone nearby," explains David Greenfield, professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
"That is a stress response and it feels unpleasant, then the natural response of the body is to check the phone to eliminate the feeling of stress earlier, " added Greenfield who also founded the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction.
Although there is a feeling of calm, but that feeling will not last long. It will even get worse for a longer period. Every time you check your phone, you'll find more stressful things. Then, the coristols will increase and the desire to check the phone continues to be done in an excuse to dispel anxiety.
This cycle is like a vicious loop that is hard to break, until its worst impacts, the coristols will surge chronically. The increase in cortisol will chronically cause other health problems, such as depression, obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, fertility problems, high blood pressure, heart, dementia, and stroke.
"Every chronic illness that we know is exacerbated by stress," explains Dr, Robert Lustig, professor emeritus and pediatric Endicronology at the University of California. "The phone contributes greatly to this, ".
Reduce phone usage, reduce stress Lustig adds that increased cortisol levels will damage the prefontal cortex. The prefontal cortex is an important brain area in the process of taking decisions and thinking rationally. If the area is interrupted coupled with a desire to eliminate anxiety by unlocking the phone, irrational things can happen and are fatal.
For example, unlock your phone and type messages while driving. If you want to reduce levels of coristol, the anxiety circles as described earlier should be trimmed. This can reduce the risk of health problems due to stress over the long term. Reducing stress can begin by disabling all notifications on your phone, except those that really matter. Then, choose which apps are roughly causing more stress.
If it's still needed, the app can be hidden in a folder that doesn't appear directly on the home screen or deletes it if it doesn't really matter. You can also apply the "fast smartphone " to rebalance the chemical compounds in the body and restore the controls. A small example to start with is to leave your phone while you're having lunch or dinner.
You also need to learn how to feel anxious and how to control it to take the right response, not by unlocking the phone. It is indeed sulilt done considering that the mobile phone vendors and applications continue to update the feature so that the user will linger to hold the phone. However, it does not hurt to start small steps for longer life expectancy.