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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: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 29 2018, @09:35AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 29 2018, @09:35AM (#673327)

    It isn't being a nightowl itself that causes the problem, it is the morning peoples' insistence on trying to force us to their schedule. For true nightowls (leave the Scotsmen out of this, please), it isn't a matter of getting used to it. Forcing a morning person to our nightowl schedule would cause the same problems for them. There is a flexible group that can adjust either way, they may even be the majority, but some of us really are nightowls or morning people. And forcing either to the other schedule will cause problems (sleep deprivation, elevated cortisol levels, etc.).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 29 2018, @11:42AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 29 2018, @11:42AM (#673350)

    I am a nightowl.

    I would never dream of going over to my neighbor and ding-donging his doorbell at 2AM to ask if he wanted to buy cookies for my fund raiser.

    Yet I have people go do the knock-knock thing at 10:30 AM to ask if I need my house painted or want to take a paper.

    And consider ME rude if I should keep a pail of water next to the door to greet these guys with.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 29 2018, @02:20PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 29 2018, @02:20PM (#673397)

      How about a flower that squirts water in their faces when the ding the doorbell?

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:39PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:39PM (#673468) Journal

        Water? Only if it's after 9 AM. Before 9 AM? Nitric acid.

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        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NotSanguine on Sunday April 29 2018, @11:43AM

    It isn't being a nightowl itself that causes the problem, it is the morning peoples' insistence on trying to force us to their schedule. For true nightowls (leave the Scotsmen out of this, please), it isn't a matter of getting used to it. Forcing a morning person to our nightowl schedule would cause the same problems for them. There is a flexible group that can adjust either way, they may even be the majority, but some of us really are nightowls or morning people. And forcing either to the other schedule will cause problems (sleep deprivation, elevated cortisol levels, etc.).

    Funny you should say that. I just watched this bit [c-span.org] and, apparently (although I wasn't surprised, being a night owl myself), the science agrees with you. Good show!

    In case anyone is wondering why they should click that link (it's good cyber, fake Trump), it's a book discussion about Daniel H. Pink's (No relation to Dr. Who's Danny Pink) new book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing [amazon.com].

    So, if you read books, your probably want to get the book. If you don't, you might like to watch the video, as it gets into quite a bit of different stuff about how we use and perceive time, how our bodies and minds are impacted by timing, etc., etc.

    There's a discussion of early birds and night owls, as well as the majority (who are neither), as well as a detailed description of a Nappuccino

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
  • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Sunday April 29 2018, @01:02PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Sunday April 29 2018, @01:02PM (#673384) Journal

    Yeah, tell me about it.

    I have to get up at 05:30 to get to work. It's wearing me thin. But it brings in the money.