Digital Fasting Effective: Focusing and well -being improves

Now It has been proven in the study: digital fasting makes the brain manna. Man becomes more satisfied, mental health improves and concentration improves.

This is how a recent US-Canadian says researchwhere participants were put on a digital detox course for two weeks. In it, participants uploaded their smartphones an application that prevented the Internet.

The concentration improved even to the extent that the participants, after the digital fasting, influenced the maintenance of attention, in a way, from ten years younger.

US spend a single query Included daily for 5 hours and 16 minutes with their cell phones. The screen time seems to be increasing as the number increased by 14 percent from the previous year.

Already in 2022 the majority of US adults were Gallup in the survey They think they use their smartphones too much. However, it is difficult to break from the addictive gadgets.

Many are concerned about what the constant staring on the phone’s screen does, for example, to concentration and, more generally, well -being.

In studies There is no clear evidence of this. Fresh meta-analysis However, it seems to be leaning on the fact that the mere presence of a smartphone interferes with data processing, albeit less than feared.

Vancouver Professor of Psychiatry at British Columbia University Peter B. Reiner And his colleagues recruited 467 participants in their recent research. These were randomly divided into two groups.

Initially, one group used their smartphones as usual for two weeks, while the other half downloaded an application on their cellphone, which prevented the Internet and thus social media, for example.

The phone could be used for calling and sending traditional SMS. In addition, participants were able to use the Internet on other devices, such as laptops. So the intention was to remove their “smart features” from smartphones.

With the help of the application, researchers were able to monitor whether the participants had to digitize.

After a two -week period, the subjects changed parts: the digital fasting of others ended, others just started.

Scientists They explored the effects of digital fasting on three things. The first was the participants’ own assessment of their well -being.

Secondly, the participants were mapped by all mental health, such as symptoms of depression and anxiety. The diagnostic tools of the US Psychiatric Association were helped.

Third, researchers investigated the maintenance of attention. This aspect of attention means for a longer period of attention in the desired object.

All three things were investigated at the beginning of the intervention, after the first two weeks and two weeks later.

Digipaaston Implementation proved difficult. Only 119 of the 467 participants kept blocking for at least 10 days.

Seven out of ten of those who participated in the digital fasting showed an improvement in mental health. Digital fasting seemed to alleviate the symptoms of depression even more than what antidepressants typically.

The change in the maintenance of attention was made by the amount that the maintenance of attention is normally reduced as a person ages ten years. Such a measure to diminishing attention as if wiped out in digital fasting.

The well -being and mental health of the group that started with digital fasting was a better model for another two weeks after fasting, when the subjects had already been able to use their cell phones as usual.