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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 29 2018, @11:42AM (2 children)
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)
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
Water? Only if it's after 9 AM. Before 9 AM? Nitric acid.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...