Arthur Brooks

If you have the phone on the table while you eat, or God forbid, if you're looking at it, there's no, none of this neurochemistry happens.

What if you're on your own?

Then you might read a book, you might listen to music, but don't look at your phone.

Or died of sepsis because he didn't go to the bathroom.

He couldn't take his phone in there.

And last, but at least it's the last hour of the day.

Now, that part of that is sleep architecture and blue light, et cetera, et cetera, the pineal gland, melatonin, yada, yada.

We all know the physiology of that.

But part of that is just the way that you actually understand yourself at the end of your day and get ready to rest.

If you're living with your partner, that's critically important to your relationship is not to be looking at your device in the last hour so you can be fully present as you drift off to sleep together.

That's super, super important for your relationship.

But just those three things.

Then there's phone-free zones.

You shouldn't have your phone in the bedroom ever, ever, ever, ever.

Because, I mean, God forbid you get up to pee at 3 o'clock in the morning and look at your phone.

That's a big mistake.

Game over.

Well, I mean, it's your pineal gland shuts off, right?

No more melatonin for you.

And so, which is problematic on its face, but it's also, you spike your cortisol.