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Praise for ‘sleep-protecting’ phones

16-Jan-2016

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Phones produce large amounts of bright, blue-spectrum light that damages the body’s ability to sleep.

Wavelengths of light at the blue-green end of the spectrum can stop melatonin being produced.

Prof Paul Gringras had accused tech giants of being irresponsible.

The study was published in the Frontiers in Public Health journal.

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Frontiers in Public Health

Multidisciplinary open-access journal.

Paul Gringras

Professor Paediatric Sleep and Neurodisability at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

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