![]() ![]() There’s no set pattern or standard progression of the disease, so each person’s experience is unique. Ironically, the only real constant for people living with MS is change. To learn more about how B-Society's fighting to do just that, check out its website. Night owls, let's fight for our right to stay up late and sleep in later and put this issue to bed - once and for all. "Quality of life, health, infrastructure, and productivity would all improve if we offered people work hours matching their circadian rhythms." To be blunt, our world would be a better place if night owls were treated equally, damn it.īut don't take my word for it - take Kring's (who put it a bit more eloquently): We all deserve to get adequate shut-eye, regardless of when our internal clocks start and stop. ![]() "It's something you're born with."Īnd when you miss out on those precious ZZZs because you're up late then forced to wake early, it could take a toll on your health.Īs the CDC notes, people who don't get enough sleep are disproportionately affected by a range of health complications - from diabetes and hypertension to depression and cancer. "A circadian rhythm is not something you choose," as Kring pointed out. If you're not an "early to bed, early to rise" type, our society's 9-5 structure could be hurting your health. It's not you, it's this messed-up world we live in. ![]() Teens, don't feel bad about hitting snooze. Carskadon, Ph.D., a sleep expert and researcher at Brown University, told Real Simple. When teens are experiencing puberty, melatonin is released into their systems later in the evening, and “this shift often makes many teenagers incapable of falling asleep before 11 at night,” Mary A. This makes sense - especially considering young people are naturally more night-owl-ish, so to speak. It recommends start times of, at the earliest, 8:30 a.m. This, I'm guessing, wouldn't surprise many folks at the CDC, which thinks far too many middle and high schools start too early, robbing students of vital rest. Tardiness fell, grades went up, and more students showed up ready to learn. And officials noticed big changes - immediately. So the school pushed its start time back from 7:25 a.m. "We didn’t want students to fall back to sleep." “At one point, we asked teachers not to turn off lights or show movies,” former principal Tom Conrad told The Boston Globe this past March. On the other hand, some research suggests more flexible work schedules make us happier, healthier, and - get this - even more productive. economy sheds over $63 billion in productivity losses each year due to lack of sleep among workers. This collective sleepiness ends up costing us.Īccording to a study out of Harvard University, the U.S. And, believe it or not, when these tired Americans - a disproportionate number of them night owls, I'd imagine - stumble into the office each morning with their eyes half-shut, they aren't on their A-game. Everyone wins when employers think of their workers less like robots programmed to turn on at dawn and more like, say, humans.Īs I'm sure you know by now, many Americans don't get enough sleep. In fact, some studies have suggested we might be more creative, " more intelligent" (researchers' words, not mine), and have bigger incomes than our early bird counterparts. Yet they live on, making night owl-types feel less than. You like to stay up late and sleep in, so you're lazy and on the fast track to failure. Stereotypes about night owls and late sleepers are baseless and harmful. ![]()
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