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It's pretty common knowledge that office workers across the world tend to have a sedentary lifestyle, which is linked with a whole host of potential health problems.
But did you know that most of us also unconsciously hold our breath when staring into an electronic screen?
The phenomenon was discovered by former Microsoft executive Linda Stone back in 2008 who named it email apnea.
While she did a lot of breathing exercises at home she realised those went out the window when she was in front of her computer screen looking through emails.
Stone would go on to carry out a rudimentary study finding that an estimated 80 % of people were affected by email apnea.
Their breath was altered or they'd hold their breath completely.
So the chances are it also happens to you.
Fast forward to the 2020s and it's not just emails that cause us to hold our breath, laptops and smartphones are now part of our everyday lives, meaning we spend more time than ever before using electronic devices, so that's how email apnea was renamed Screenopnea.
What's going on in our bodies when this happens?
According to Tana Garuda writing for insidehook .com in September 2023, ...screen apnea occurs because of your body and brain's reaction to the perceived stimuli you see on your device screens and the more unpredictable a stimulus the more the body perceives it as a threat.
Take the example of an email or slack notification at work.
When you get one you tend to freeze up as you read it.
your breathing also becomes shallower and as a result your whole body tenses up.
Over the course of a day at work, our nervous system can end up in a state of chronic threat, in turn leading to chronic stress.
According to mindful .org, our eyes also get fatigued and strained the longer we spend staring at a computer screen, exacerbating the shallow breathing problem.
And we're so focused on what we're looking at on the screen that we simply don't notice the change in breathing.
We've established that holding your breath chronically can leave you exhausted at the end of a work day, which of course has the knock -on effect of compromising your performance.
But experts say that it can also disrupt a person's sleep, lower their energy levels, and cause depression, anxiety or other mood disorders.
Dr. Russell Greenfield is Director of Integrative Medicine at Novant Health, Quoted in an article on the organisation's website, he explained how Screen Apnea changes the balance of gases like oxygen, nitric oxide and carbon dioxide within a person's body, that can result in inflammation and affect
the person's immune system, leaving them less able to fight off infections.
How can I make sure I'm breathing normally?
Thankfully there are a few different things you can do to tackle Screen Apnea and keep a natural breathing cycle when using electronic screens, these include mindful breathing, doing chair -yoga at your desk and getting up regularly to walk around, which of course will also help reduce risks that come
with being too sedentary, and don't forget the 20 -20 -20 rule we've talked about on do you really know in the past, every 20 minutes you should take your eyes off your computer screen, fixate them on something 20 step pink And look at it for 20 seconds!
There you have it. Now you know why we get screen apnea.
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