Insomnia is a common sleep disorder that can make it difficult or difficult to stay asleep, or cause you to wake up at night with no ability to fall back asleep, feeling tired when you wake up. Insomnia can impair your energy level, mood, health and performance at work. and quality of life.

The amount of adequate sleep varies from person to person, but most adults need seven to eight hours a night.

Sometimes many adults have short-term (acute) insomnia, which lasts for days or weeks. It usually occurs as a result of a stressful or traumatic event. However, some suffer from long-term (chronic) insomnia that lasts a month or more. Insomnia can be the underlying problem or it may be related to medications or other medical conditions.

But you don’t need to live with sleepless nights. Usually, simple changes in your daily habits can help.

There is no doubt that social networks have become an integral part of our lives, but how we use them can have an enormous impact on our sleep.

According to a new study, posting on social media before bed can keep you awake for hours.

The study found that posting content an hour before bedtime reduces sleep by up to three hours.

The researchers tracked more than 51,000 Reddit user posts from 2005 to 2021 to see how the time they posted affected their stay on the site.

They analyzed more than 236 million posts over 16 years, and measured the number of posts made after a user’s bedtime.

According to the findings, published in the journal Sleep Medicine, users were more likely to stay on Reddit one to three hours after their usual bedtime when the last post was an hour before their bedtime.

And users who posted content several times an hour before bedtime were significantly more likely to stay up later than their bedtimes.

Dr William Myerson, from Duke University, said: ‘This could be the result of several factors – from screen lights disrupting the circadian rhythm, to anticipation of a response. Reddit users were more likely to stay awake beyond their usual bedtime and post through the night when they posted content on social media an hour before bedtime, especially if they are active in highly interactive forums.”

And with using social media even right before bedtime becoming an increasingly popular routine, with many checking their phones while in bed, researchers have raised concerns that staring at the blue light of a screen prevents the body’s natural sleep cycle from kicking off, disrupting the hormones that make us feel. sleepy.