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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Sunday April 29 2018, @10:39AM
According to them it seems the stress indicator is that "evening people" run a 10% higher risk of dying sooner (after all we will all die) because they try to adjust to the "morning people" and their schedule. So if you don't adjust does the increased risk go away? Is the risk in that you force yourself to wake up at the same time as them even tho you went to sleep several hours later? Or is it that you are just off the clock of society? When they eat breakfast you are sleeping, when they eat lunch you wake up etc. So just get a job with a a free schedule or later workshifts (might be easier said then done)? Even tho there are amble studies that say that night shift workers die earlier to, but the same thing might be true there - do they die cause they work night or do they die earlier cause they try to adapt to other peoples clocks? or is it just a lack of sunlight?
Once again then is this due to sleeping other hours or trying to live on someone else's schedule?
That might then indeed be the case. It's not how or when you sleep it is that you adapt your sleep to your schedule and schedule to sleep and not just do what everyone else does.