How To Avoid Digital Poisoning And Stay Healthy

The Silent Killer In Your Pocket

Deepak R
4 min readMay 3, 2023
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This one is deeply personal for me.

For a long time, I’ve known that there are 5 devices that run/ruin my life — my personal phone, my work phone, my personal laptop, my work laptop and the TV. Seems like a lot, right? How about you?

I was hoping to not be the outlier and the research confirms the same.

6.7 hours for my reading time on average sounds low considering my job has switched to one-day per week requirement for the office.

On the most days, I’m on the work laptop between 9–5 taking very few breaks and then I’m so tired by the end of it that I simply want to numb myself through social media or binging the latest Netflix TV show.

This simply isn’t healthy! And after seeing it impact my health, home relationships, work performance and just having a continuous sense of burnout, I started researching into the topic to find that there is actually a term attached to it — Digital Poisoning.

Digital poisoning is a term used to describe the negative effects that prolonged exposure to digital…

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Deepak R

🏆 Award winning tech sales geek with a passion for wealth creation, technologies and career success