Smartphone Effects on the Brain in Children and Teens | DrEricBergDC

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so today i want to talk about smartphone  addictions in teens and children okay it’s a big  

problem there was a study done in 2016 involving  1,240 parents and they found that 50 of teens felt  

addicted no surprise there 59 of parents believed  that their kids were addicted okay 77 percent of  

parents feel that their kids get distracted and  lose attention that’s uh no surprise of course  

you’re going to be distracted and 72 percent of  teens felt that they needed to respond to text and  

social media immediately when they get this like  text message because texting you get like a 95  

open rate so you have people that are just all day  long just responding responding responding it’s  

training you to respond um versus email which  is i think it’s only like 15 or 20 percent  

so it’s definitely a problem because you’re  glued to this phone and you’re literally  

addicted i only check text messages maybe twice a  day same thing with the email because i found that  

i wasn’t getting anything done at all because  i’m constantly it and when you think about  

multitasking you think you’re gonna you’re getting  more stuff done you’re not your power is in your  

attention so you really wanna do what you’re  doing when you’re doing it and not doing something  

else by doing this thing over here 78 of teens  check their devices at least hourly i think it’s a  

lot more frequent than that smartphone addictions  are similar to drug addictions in that they do  

influence the size and shape of certain parts  of the brain specifically in the gray matter  

the insula and the temporal cortex which is  involved with emotion speech hearing sight memory  

and self control they also found that  there’s more anxiety without your phone  

and i think a lot of people um if they lose  their phone or they forget their phone they  

they freak out because it’s their  lifeline we depend on that phone  

the problem is just the obsessive use of this  phone and and what it can do to your body which  

we’re going to cover in a minute um there’s less  social interaction with people in front of you  

because we’re communicating through the phone  and a lot of people have insomnia and fatigue  

because of this cell phone and so what is the  real damage with our cell phones it’s the emf  

electromagnetic fields there’s two fields one  is the electric fields which is different than  

the magnetic fields i’m not going to get into the  difference because i created a video on that which  

i’ll put a link down below but i found when i  measured my house with an emf meter by my bed  

there was a massive magnetic field because  of the wiring in the back of the wall which  

i had to hire an electrician to redo because i was  literally being bathed in a sea of magnetic fields  

and it was massively affecting my sleep cycle  so i fixed that bam sleep like a baby now all  

right so emf affects the brain and it affects the  heart mainly but it affects other parts as well  

it can even affect fertility so but if you put  your cell phone in your pocket next to the gonads  

you’re literally sending microwaves into that  area also the blue light from the devices  

not just your cell phone but other devices affects  melatonin so that’s going to affect your sleep  

so the main thing is damage control how can we  reduce the effect of emfs in our body number one  

avoid contact with your brain do not hold your  cell phone up to your head also if you have those  

earbuds or you have some type of earphones that go  right into your brain there’s a very specific type  

you need to get i think it’s called air buds or  something where there’s a space between your brain  

and the wire so you’re not driving this current or  these these fields right into your brain which is  

not good use the speaker on your phone but  keep it away from your head very important and  

really interesting when i was in practice i did a  series of talks to the natural science institute  

that’s when i first got introduced to emf because  there was a research scientist that came up to me  

and said did you hear about some of  the studies that they were doing on  

children developing brain tumors from exposure  to emf and i’m like really what so they were  

already involved in the research and that  increased my awareness on that connection  

number two if you have a sleeping problem you  don’t want to use the cell phone two to three  

hours before bed because the blue light is  going to interfere with your ability to sleep  

the circadian rhythm because it’s going to affect  melatonin and the next thing is that get an emf  

uh protection case especially if you’re carrying  in your pocket you want to limit the amount  

of exposure that you have the emf by having  this this case that can help at least reduce  

the exposure all right there you have it uh but  check out the videos i have down below hey before  

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