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posted by mrpg on Sunday April 29 2018, @06:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the I've-burned-twice-as-fast dept.

Vox reports

We all have a preferred time for sleeping — a body clock. There are “morning people,” “evening people [aka 'night owls'],” and those in between. Our preferences for when to sleep are called chronotypes. And, increasingly, researchers have been investigating what happens to people whose body clocks are out of sync with the rest of society.

[...] Those who reported having a later chronotype (people who are night owls) had a 10 percent increased likelihood of dying compared to people who had an earlier chronotype. And this was true for people of all ages in the study, and for both men and women.

[...] It’s hard to know how all these risks interplay with one another, and there’s no clear answer as to why there may be health risks to being a late sleeper.

But here’s a compelling hypothesis: When our biological clock is out of sync with society’s, our whole biology gets thrown off, and many aspects of our lives grow more stressful. Having a very late chronotype is like living in a constant state of jet lag, which takes a toll on the body.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:20AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:20AM (#673280) Journal

    Maybe, being late at night somewhere on the Globe, we are already dead, and this what we see before us, is an aristarchus submission, and he is finally free, liberated from the slings and arrows of outrageous editors. . . . "I see dead Soylentils, and, they don't even know they are dead!"

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