S M A R T P H O N E - I N D U C E D I N S O M N I A the Weekly Wellness Tip FROM SMITH CHIROPRACTIC Volume 1 Issue 3 Health & Technology Wellness Tips Technology is everywhere, helping us with our everyday lives and sometimes hurting us. For this reason, we chose Health & Technology as the topic for our first series of Wellness Tips at Smith Chiropractic. Every week, we will be providing advice on health problems caused by the use of technology. Our Weekly Wellness Tips can be found at: • Smith Chiropractic Website: www.drpatricksmith.com • Smith Chiropractic Facebook Page: DrPatrickRSmith • Our office for printouts IS YOUR SMARTPHONE KEEPING YOU UP AT NIGHT? Smartphone-induced Insomnia Smartphones have the profound ability of keeping us up-to-date on all of the information concerning the great wide world we live in. But can having all this knowledge at your fingertips be detrimental to healthy sleeping patterns? A recent survey found that four in ten smartphone users would check their phone at night, if it woke them up. This can be a huge problem as the blue light emitted from smartphones can suppress the production of the sleep-regulating hormone know as melatonin. A reduction in melatonin production can interfere with getting a good night’s sleep.