The Tea On The Scroll-to-Burnout Pipeline Nobody’s Talking About

Welcome to Season 4!

Did you know that over 1 in 2 American adults use a screen in bed everyday and more than 56% of perimenopausal women are sleeping less than the recommended 7 hours per night? 26% of adults reported that they regularly sacrifice their recommended hours of sleep in order to have more screen time. Yet, over one-third of American adults say using their phone to check news before bed makes their sleep worse. Add doomscrolling to that equation, and your hormones, metabolism, and waistline are paying a price most don't even realize.

On today's episode of the Essence of Health Tea Time Podcast, Dr. Shayla Toombs-Withers will be spilling 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚 𝐎𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥-𝐭𝐨-𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲’𝐬 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭. Today’s episode features a newly released article about a survey published by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) titled "Americans Are 'Doomscrolling' at Bedtime, Prioritizing Screen Time Over Sleep".

Synopsis

• Discover what the AASM's 2025 Sleep Prioritization Survey revealed about Americans' bedtime screen habits.
• Understand what blue light actually does to your melatonin and cortisol levels, and why this hits harder for women in perimenopause and menopause.
• Learn the progesterone-sleep connection that your doctor probably didn’t mention to you and why waking up at 3am may be a hormone story, not a stress story.
• Explore how chronic sleep deprivation drives hormonal imbalance leading to insulin resistance, hunger cue dysregulation, weight gain.
• Understand why Daylight Saving Time causes physical and safety risks with just that 1 hour of time difference.
• Get Dr. Shayla’s “sleepy scrolling tea” on the 5 tips to integrate into your sleep routine starting tonight to improve your quality of sleep.

Today’s Highlighted Article:

“Americans are ‘doomscrolling’ at bedtime, prioritizing screen time over sleep”

https://aasm.org/americans-are-doomscrolling-at-bedtime-prioritizing-screen-time-over-sleep/

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