Binge watching could lead to poor sleep says study, know reasons why
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Binge-watching may be fun, but it comes at a price, according to a recent study. The study, which is the first to link binge-watching in young adults with poorer sleep quality,
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More fatigue and increased insomnia, suggested that the mechanism explaining this relationship is increased cognitive alertness resulting from binge-watching
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More than 80 percent of young adults identified themselves as a binge-watcher, with 20.2 percent of them binge-watching at least a few times a week in the previous month.
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Those who identified as a binge-watcher reported more fatigue, more symptoms of insomnia, poorer sleep quality and greater alertness prior to going to sleep
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Lead author Liese Exelmans from the School for Mass Communication Research at the University of Leuven in Belgium noted, “We found that the more often young people binge-watch, the higher their cognitive pre-sleep arousal.