Take your health into your own hands

Take your health into your own hands

Take your health into your own hands

Smartphone addiction is like a drug

The 21st century is marked by new technologies, smartphones and everything that revolves around these devices that are as useful as they are harmful. According to Erik Peper, professor of health education at theUniversity of San Francisco,“addiction to smartphone use begins to form neurological connections in the brain similar to those that develop in those who acquire an addiction to opioid drugs for pain relief.”

The professor through a survey of 135 students found that those who continuously use phones have higher levels of feelings of isolation, depression and anxiety. The research, published in Neuro Regulation, confirms that this strong feeling of isolation is due to the fact that we have unfortunately replaced cell phones with face-to-face communication. This situation allows us to stay connected all the time, but at the same time prevents us from using body language effectively, also causing a sense of dissatisfaction. Being social, paradoxically, makes us asocial, developing a greater aptitude for communicating through a cell phone rather than in person.

App notifications

It seems that apps have also come into the scientists’ sights, in fact, according to research conducted,notifications can trigger neural pathways. During the survey, students were likely to look at their smartphones at any time of the day, while studying and eating, as if in a state of
“semi-tasking”
, in which they multitask at the same time, achieving, however, half the results they could have achieved without this harmful technological device. The main cause is push notifications, which almost force us to look at our phones and unconsciously activate neural pathways within our brains. Once these would have alerted us to danger, but today “we are diverted, by the same mechanisms that once protected us, to the most mundane information,” these are Professor Peper‘s words. People, especially young people, because of smartphones are totally losing control. This is the reason why its abuse is compared to that of addictive drugs.

Professor Erik Peper, along with the authors of the research, incited users to take back command of their lives, take their eyes off their smartphones and respond to notifications only at specific times of the day.

Can the smartphone make us fat?

Between apps to promote physical activity, monitor cardiopulmonary performance, weight and calorie intake, smartphones would seem to be great allies of physical fitness. Yet this is not always the case, especially if one’s use of it is associated with or encourages a more sedentary and “distracted” lifestyle toward food.
The details of the study
, which warns of risks to the scale.

Smartphone addiction: eliminate it this way

Virtually unknown until just over a decade ago, smartphones are now considered faithful companions and indispensable tools of life and work by most people. They keep in constant contact with real or virtual friends, provide free access to any information, offer opportunities for recreation, and perform a wide variety of functions through a diverse plethora of Apps. But do we really need to hold them all the time? Or have we become slaves to it? If you suspect the latter is true, find here
some tips to free yourself
.

Lots of bacteria in your shoes and on your smartphone

Vast populations of bacteria inhabit our shoes and on our cell phones.

The research

The researchers collected samples from widely used objects that we all manipulate on a daily basis: shoes and cell phones.

Scientists analyzed a large number of DNAs, as many as 2,486 samples from people intent on sporting events or while visiting museums and exhibitions, so they could trace the microbial species present.

The organisms

Most of them were prokaryotic organisms (life forms in which the nucleus with the genetic material is not separated from the rest of the cell) well known, but in 10% of the samples tested there was also a little more: microbes that were not yet known, but certainly includable in what can be defined as the bacterial dark matter.

Bacterial dark matter

To this day, 39 phyla are known, which can be thought of as the largest branches of the tree of life. Researchers know that only the tip of the iceberg of this realm is really known: there are species we know very little about because they are extremely rare or because they cannot be observed in the laboratory, and others that are certainly ignored completely.

The discovery

Another 9 phyla, belonging to the bacterial dark matter were identified by means of this study .The scientists found among the collected samples specimens of Edwardsbactera, that is, very rare bacteria discovered for the first time in a groundwater Of underground water.

Still, in another sample was the dna of Diapherotrites, equally rare microorganisms that had been detected in water inside a mine.

Where they lurk

The places of their greatest prevalence are: at our feet, that is, in our shoes, and in our hands, right on the smartphone.

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