Be honest. How much screentime do you clock each day?

Americans are averaging around seven hours a day on their devices, and that may just be setting us up for some extremely negative cognitive effects.

One analysis showed that increased screentime (six hours a day or more) can lead to decreased grey matter. Grey matter is where information processing happens. About 40 percent of the brain consists of grey matter. It’s where most of the neuronal structures are, which means it’s where the most important brain functions take place. The Cleveland Clinic explains, “Grey matter is the place where the processing of sensation, perception, voluntary movement, learning, speech, and cognition takes place.”

The same study found that too much screentime also decreased the amount of white matter, which is where a lot of the communication between brain regions takes place. It’s white because it’s made of a fatty substance called myelin that helps speed communication throughout the brain.

Even if I didn’t explain why, I hope you’d be encouraged to reduce........

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