We all know the importance of a good night's sleep when it comes to feeling rested and ready for the day ahead, but Britain is currently experiencing a sleep crisis.
This sleep crisis is being built in the bedroom.
“The smartphone in the bedroom is the single largest population-scale anxiety driver we've ever seen,” says Dr Allie Hare, President of the British Sleep Society.
A staggering 70% of struggling sleep is rooted in smartphone use. People carry phones to bed and the anxiety stays in the room with them. Zebble removes the device while preserving emergency reachability. The physical and mental benefits of this are impressive.
Zebble is a beautifully simple bedside pebble designed to help you switch off from your phone while still staying reachable by the people who matter most. It can also be used as your alarm and provides access to sleep sounds, breathwork, and expert guidance from some of the world’s leading doctors in sleep and wellbeing.
Zebble users are able to stay contactable in an emergency and keep to their wake-up routines, without the need for their phone to be in the room with them overnight.
No phone in sight, but still reachable. That leads to better sleep.
According to a study by the Journal for Adolescence (2022), removing the phone from the bedroom led to a 23% reduction in anxiety symptoms within just one week. And a report from Mind revealed that the smartphone is the single largest population-scale anxiety driver and the bedroom is where it does the most damage.
Zebble does the one thing that moves this number: remove the phone, relieve the stress.
Another study found that after six weeks of phone-free sleeping at night, patients experienced a 20% drop in their cortisol levels. Cortisol, often called ‘the stress hormone’, is released as a response by the body to keep us alert. It’s typically at its lowest overnight, but when we experience physical or mental strain it rises and a very common cause of cortisol being released is exposure to blue light.
Blue light exposure triggers cortisol release by stimulating specialised cells in the eyes that signal your brain to wake up and become alert. While this is a normal process that aids your morning routine, late-night screen time can elevate stress hormone levels, disrupting your natural circadian rhythm and sleep quality.
