Late To Bed, Early To Die? Night Owls May Die Sooner (livescience.com) 217
An anonymous reader shares a report: Bad news for "night owls": Those who tend to stay up late and sleep in well past sunrise are at increased risk of early death, a new study from the United Kingdom suggests. The research, which involved nearly half a million people, found that self-described "evening people" were 10 percent more likely to die over a 6.5-year period, compared with self-described morning people. The findings add to a growing body of research that suggests that being a night owl could have negative effects on health. Many of these effects may be attributable to a misalignment between a person's internal clock, or circadian rhythm, and the socially imposed timing of work and other activities, the researchers said. "'Night owls' trying to live in a 'morning lark' world may have health consequences for their bodies," study co-author Kristen Knutson, an associate professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a statement.
"sleep past sunrise increased risk of early death" (Score:5, Funny)
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Early to rise, early to bed
Makes a man poor, stupid and dead.
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If one sleeps past sunrise then dies then his death would be late rather than early :)
Unless he died in his sleep. B-)
I run on "substandard time" and always intended to be late to my funeral.
(So I joined a cryonics organization. That way I get to compound the pun by making it literal.)
No wonder (Score:5, Interesting)
To even get out of bed in time we have to add unhealthy chemicals to our body that increase our blood pressure. Stop messing with the damn clock and let me come to work around 1pm and I'll be fine.
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Actually caffeine doesn't raise your blood pressure, it widens your blood vessels which lowers it. Your body's natural homeostatic reaction constricts it back, which is reasonably healthy in moderation. Anything can be unhealthy done too much.
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Actually caffeine doesn't raise your blood pressure, it widens your blood vessels which lowers it.
And three to five cups a day have been shown to substantially extend average lifespan. (And it's not "sick people tend to give up caffeine", like the little down-bump in death rateat one alcoholic drink per day proved to be.) So my (quite reputed) cardiologist PRESCRIBED a couple cups of coffee per day for me. B-)
Personally, I like to start the day with a warm shower. That way I get my body temp up without
Re: No wonder (Score:4, Insightful)
Both cocaine and caffeine constrict your blood vessels. It does eventually self-regulate to a more normal state. That's why caffeine withdrawal headaches happen - the body over-dilates the blood vessels in the brain to compensate for caffeine that isn't there.
Re: No wonder (Score:5, Interesting)
Both caffeine and cocaine are potentially unhealthy chemicals people are taking to manage the sleep patterns that arise from night owls having to adapt to a world which has a schedule catered to day larks as an artifact of having once been centered around natural lighting and agriculture.
Today we are familiar with cocaine as an ultra pure extract of insane concentration being used by drug addicts, when it was outlawed it was generally a very dilute tea made from leaves with similar properties to caffeine and milder side effects. It was outlawed because the tea and coffee industries had a better lobby. The highly concentrated stuff mostly came about because it is smaller and easier to smuggle that way. If you treated caffeine the way we've come to treat cocaine it wouldn't be highly addictive only because you'd be dead. Nobody researches positive health effects of cocaine but it shares many of the same mechanisms believed to be responsible for the positive effects of caffeine. It may be trivia but it is worth challenging societal and preconceived notions now and then. In countries where they grow naturally it is quite common for workers to chew coca leaves in a use similar to our drinking of coffee or British drinking of tea.
Re:No wonder (Score:4, Interesting)
This exactly. As a natural night owl, when I'm in situations where I'm able to stick to my natural body clock, go to bed late, and wake up later. I feel refreshed and awake.
Do I normally get to go to bed late and wake up late? No. In our current society I've spent the majority of my life having to get up early and then trying to force myself to sleep early. Not to mention time changes, and everything else the world does to try and mess with anyone deemed not on some random "perfect" schedule. There's no way being exhausted all the time is healthy for anyone.
But give me a couple weeks of vacation and the majority of that is spent going to bed at 3-4am, waking up whenever, and feeling better than ever.
Re:No wonder (Score:5, Insightful)
Reminds me of the book, "Eastern Standard Tribe", by Cory Doctorow.
Since you don't know each others timezones, you might both be waking up at the same time, putting you both in the same tribe.
The headline is also a lie. It's contradicted in the summary itself. This study isn't about going to bed early or late; it's about how much sleep one gets at night (ie: "Night owls' trying to live in a 'morning lark' world"). If the night owls' simply slept in just as much as they stayed up, it would be an entirely different study.
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The only time I was ever early for work was when I was working remotely for a US company in Cali while sitting in Europe...
Yeah, even I can be on time for meetings at 8am when I'm living 9 hours away.
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Reminds me of the book, "Eastern Standard Tribe", by Cory Doctorow.
Since you don't know each others timezones, you might both be waking up at the same time, putting you both in the same tribe.
The headline is also a lie. It's contradicted in the summary itself. This study isn't about going to bed early or late; it's about how much sleep one gets at night (ie: "Night owls' trying to live in a 'morning lark' world"). If the night owls' simply slept in just as much as they stayed up, it would be an entirely different study.
Exactly what I thought, too.
Correlation =\= Causation (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Correlation =\= Causation (Score:5, Insightful)
I couldn't agree more. I think its more likely that people who tend to stay up late and sleep in are associated with more risk taking behavior.
"Death" is a hell of a test factor for an experiment, especially irrespective of cause.
That said, i bet if we dug into the data there's way better clickbait titles to be mined in there.
If someone contracted herpes during the experiment, would sleeping in increase your chances of getting herpes?
How about buying a new car?
If you sleep in are you more likely to buy a Ford?
If i were to completely unscientifically and sight unseen postulate an actual takeaway from a study like this, I would bet that most of these "night owls" work part time or multiple jobs. That is a data point that I would be more interested in.
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Re:Correlation =\= Causation (Score:5, Informative)
"The primary outcomes were all-cause mortality and mortality due to cardiovascular disease (CVD). Prevalent disease was also compared among the chronotype groups. Analyses were adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, smoking, body mass index, sleep duration, socioeconomic status and comorbidities. Greater eveningness, particularly being a definite evening type, was significantly associated with a higher prevalence of all comorbidities." [Emphasis mine]
Association is of course not causation, and the abstract doesn't imply causation at all beyond the obvious and already-stated: "Mortality risk in evening types may be due to behavioural, psychological, and physiological risk factors, many of which may be attributable to chronic misalignment between internal physiological timing and externally imposed timing of work and social activities. These findings suggest the need for researching possible interventions aimed at either modifying circadian rhythms in individuals or at allowing evening types greater working hour flexibility."
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You realize that essentially says nothing right?
Pay attention the the clear effort to avoid making any concrete assertions.
"Mortality risk in evening types MAY be due to behavioural, psychological, and physiological risk factors, MANY OF WHICH MAY be attributable to chronic misalignment between internal physiological timing and externally imposed timing of work and social activities. These findings suggest the need for researching possible interventions aimed at either modifying circadian rhythms in individ
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...just trying to start a conversation.
Re: Correlation =\= Causation (Score:5, Interesting)
The biggest problem "night owls" have is living in a society that forces them to live in a state of life-long sleep-deprivation if they have any kind of normal job.
I just don't get tired naturally until 2 or 3am. I can fall asleep earlier if I'm sleep-deprived, but THEN my body treats it like an afternoon nap... I'll wake up 3-5 hours later, then be unable to fall asleep again until dawn. My earliest sustainable go-to-bed time is ~12:30am (with Ambien & melatonin).
I worked happily for years at a company that let me work 11-7 (usually a little later, but I didn't mind). I rarely got sick & did the best work in my life. Sadly, the company didn't survive The Great Recession.
I later worked for 2 months at a job that required me to get up at 6:30am... it damn near killed me. I was getting sick enough to need antibiotics every 2-3 weeks (mostly strep & sinus infections), crashed & burned into Friday night, and didn't start to feel "not awful" until Sunday... and then the hell began started again. My short-term memory went down the toilet & took months to heal after I quit.
By week 4 of my hellish early-morning job, I was having worse & worse muscle cramps... first, randomly at night. Then, sitting at my desk. Then at completely random moments, including driving or just walking. I'm convinced I was weeks away from having a heart attack that would basically have been just another muscle cramp, and probably would have literally died if I'd kept it up.
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The biggest problem "night owls" have is living in a society that forces them to live in a state of life-long sleep-deprivation if they have any kind of normal job.
Boy, isn't THAT the truth!
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Re: Correlation =\= Causation (Score:3)
Incidentally, there's abundant evidence that magnesium deficiency is a bigger risk factor for having a heart attack than cholesterol or fat.
Chronic sleep deprivation frequently results in magnesium-depletion.
Magnesium is what signals your muscles to relax. That's why cramps are easy to trigger when you're magnesium-deficient... muscles get the signal to contract... and do... but don't get the signal to relax, so they keep pulling as hard as they can. And often, opposing bundles of muscle start to pull simul
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Just a thot: magnesium acetate is more bioavailable and so less likely to loosen the bowels (because the mag doesn't get that far).
I mix magnesium laxative (e.g. Milk of Magnesia) 1:4 in apple cider vinegar and mix an ounce of the solution into a liter of water that I drink from throughout the day. Works fine with no worries.
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Just a thot: magnesium acetate is more bioavailable and so less likely to loosen the bowels (because the mag doesn't get that far).
I mix magnesium laxative (e.g. Milk of Magnesia) 1:4 in apple cider vinegar and mix an ounce of the solution into a liter of water that I drink from throughout the day. Works fine with no worries.
Thanks for the tip; but that sounds REALLY vile... And I LIKE Apple Cider Vinegar!
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It's not something I'd order at a bar, but it's within the realm of tolerable for most folks. Just avoid the flavored MoM -- the cherry flavor is particularly disgusting in this solution.
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It's not something I'd order at a bar, but it's within the realm of tolerable for most folks. Just avoid the flavored MoM -- the cherry flavor is particularly disgusting in this solution.
I'd imagine the mint wouldn't be so hot, either...
Re: Correlation =\= Causation (Score:4, Interesting)
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"Everyone else gets here on time every day..."
Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder is a one of the big reasons I've been self employed for a couple o' decades now. I fought the disorder for years because society demanded it, but all I got for it was more and more burned out and far more susceptible to troublesome bouts of insomnia lasting as long as a month. Insomnia beyond about two weeks makes it completely impossible to live up to normal expectations and feels like slowly dying. There's no such thing as a job th
...and no cross checks (Score:2)
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The only reason society has evolved to match
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the $64,000 question though is if one's circadian cycle can be adjusted over time.
If you're born a lark, are you destined to never become a pro-gamer, or simpson's marathon champion?
(in all seriousness, being a life-long 'night-owl', maintaining a 9-5 schedule has always been a struggle.. so really, if it were possible through diligence and suffering, I'd totally go for it.)
I am sick of these articles (Score:3)
Other factors (Score:4, Insightful)
The researchers found that the evening people were more likely than the early risers to have poor sleep quality and unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, sedentary lifestyles and eating late at night, Kim said. The night owls also tended to be younger, but were more likely to have high levels of body fat and triglycerides, or fats in their blood, than early risers. (Having high levels of fat is usually associated with older age.)
I wonder if any of these factors could attribute to a higher mortality rate? This study simply states that night owls have a higher rate of unhealthy lifestyle choices.
I would be more interested in the mortality rates of night owls who do not exhibit these behaviors. But then again there were only 95 night owls in this study, so I doubt you would be able to determine that from such a small sample size.
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The researchers found that the evening people were more likely than the early risers to have poor sleep quality and unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, sedentary lifestyles and eating late at night, Kim said. The night owls also tended to be younger, but were more likely to have high levels of body fat and triglycerides, or fats in their blood, than early risers. (Having high levels of fat is usually associated with older age.)
I wonder if any of these factors could attribute to a higher mortality rate? This study simply states that night owls have a higher rate of unhealthy lifestyle choices.
I would be more interested in the mortality rates of night owls who do not exhibit these behaviors. But then again there were only 95 night owls in this study, so I doubt you would be able to determine that from such a small sample size.
This entire study is pseudoscience at its worst. Or best. However you parse that phrase; I'm too sleepy to figure it out...
A "morning lark" world (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:A "morning lark" world (Score:5, Insightful)
The puritan bullshit thinking. If you're sleeping, you can't be productive and thus you're BAD. And since they're already sleeping again ("after a hard day's work") when you're at peak performance, they don't see you work so you're BAD.
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Re:A "morning lark" world (Score:4, Insightful)
We have all that now, but a million years or more of evolution have trained our bodies to be more sunlight synchronized. Think of the research stations at the poles where there's a very real concern of depression and it's accompanying conditions without sunlight.
That said, no judging from here; I've always been a bit of a night owl myself, but not to a great extent. On weeknights I'm usually in bed by 11:30pm and on weekends, I stay up another hour, maybe two, depending. 2am is the latest and that's rare.
Or maybe it's just more accurate to say I'm definitely not a morning person. I tend to sleep quite soundly at 7am or later, if allowed. Sometimes I even feel drowsier just as the sun starts to come up.
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Recent research has indicated this is false. Mere thousands of years of agricultural based society have attuned our artificial environment to revolve around sun cycles. People do not all share a "day lark" rhythm. It is questionable that most even do given the prevalence of alarm clocks to get up for early work start times.
The summary is badly written, probably with the bias of a day lar
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Why is the world designed for "morning larks?" We have telecommuting, electric light, etc -- not all jobs need to be done on 18th century farmers' hours. Is this just the human knack for self flagellation?
Because of children and parents. Sorry if you think that's discriminatory, but life must go on.
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Children get up early because they go to bed early, they go to bed early so their parents can have a couple hours to themselves, or even to more easily accomplish chores without having to juggle managing them.
Re:A "morning lark" world (Score:5, Insightful)
Why is the world designed for "morning larks?"
It's not. Movies start at 7:30 or 8, not 6pm. Lots of good TV dramas don't start until 10pm - Heck, Seth Meyers doesn't even come on until 12:35am (to be sure, less of a concern in this era of PVRs). Most restaurants don't even open until 8am on weekends. What breakfast at 6:30am? Unless you want an Egg McMuffin or your have a 24-hour Denny's nearby, ferget it. If your friends invite you out, you're considered a lame weirdo if you need to be home by 11.
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If you are "morning lark" or day walker
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2 AM on weekends.
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Exactly this. It isn't staying up late that is harming people's health. It is forcing those with biological clocks that don't conform to societal standards of 9-5 that is harming people's healths. If more companies realized this and shifted non-time-critical work around this (most non-retail jobs), things would run a hell of a lot more efficiently. I know as a software engineer, I do my best coding work at around the 8PM to Midnight hours, but the company I'm at shifted me from "work from home at your own s
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True.
"There is about as much validity to "biological clocks" as there is to biofeedback mania of the 70's. There is no such thing as biological clock determinism."
So this would be you making an assumption without evidence? There has been evidence of a biological clock or circadian rhythm and adverse health effects to violating it. It was assumed this was the same for
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Why is the world designed for "morning larks?" We have telecommuting, electric light, etc -- not all jobs need to be done on 18th century farmers' hours. Is this just the human knack for self flagellation?
No, it's because when people get older, their sleep schedule often changes as well, and they tend to rise earlier. At the same time, most people in management positions tend to be older, and it's management that dictate the working schedule.
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Cause or Effect? (Score:2)
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Assuming the study is valid, the real question is whether it's unhealthy to be a night owl, or that it's unhealthy to be a night owl with the structure of our society.
The way I read the article, it's the latter, though it's not very clear.
In general, I find it amazing how governments and businesses are willing to sacrifice the working performance of people in the name of conforming office hours. All this talk about increasing competition and efficiency, and yet only a few companies are letting people work in ways they perform the best.
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Many of these effects may be attributable to a misalignment between a person's internal clock, or circadian rhythm, and the socially imposed timing of work and other activities, the researchers said. "'Night owls' trying to live in a 'morning lark' world may have health consequences for their bodies ...
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Indeed. Forcing an Owl to raise early causes jet-lag. It is absolutely no surprise this impacts health.
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Also, most night owls are able to switch over to more "normal" hours, so to a large extent this is a study of people who can't change their circadian rhythms.
What if something is causing you to stay up late? (Score:5, Interesting)
Linked articles don't really have anything on things which might co-exist with staying up late. For instance, in mortality cases, did staying up late cause health issues leading to death, or was there a health issue which made it hard to sleep which also eventually caused death? Does stress affect sleep? Does staying up late correlate with lack of exercise? The list could go on and on. Without a mechanism, it's silly/stupid to suggest modifying things like the job market to fix the problem. It's comparable to saying "Cholesterol is bad, you should be really careful about eating eggs."
New Tax Announced (Score:5, Funny)
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late-to-bed tax
We don't have to go that far. Just make sure that all electronic devices display this [pinimg.com] after 11:00 PM.
I believe it (Score:3)
I was a night owl, and then my job started forcing me to do to 7 to 3. That means I'm often up at 5AM to comfortably get ready for work and have a non-shitty commute (ie 30 minutes, not 1.5 hours). I relented and started making a point of trying to be asleep by 9PM every night.
A lot of things mentally, emotionally and physically started bouncing back to normal. I had attributed a lot of it to caffeine, but it turned out that if I get 7+ hours of sleep on a forced early bird schedule, caffeine barely phases me in the mid afternoon. It really is that much about sleep schedule and length, nothing else.
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I faced the same problem.
I changed jobs.
No job is worth bending over backwards for it. I'm good enough to write the rules. You don't like me coming in at 10-11, I find someone who does.
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Same here, with occasional exceptions. The nice thing about consulting work (not body-leasing) is that you can always claim to have that time in the early morning already sold to another customer...
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If you are an Owl, you cannot do that. Sounds very much like you were a Lark that just abused his body. For a genuine Owl, raising early just puts them into perpetual jet-lag.
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If you are an Owl, you cannot do that.
Late-night partiers and gamers claim disability status in 3...2...1...
Correlation does not imply causation (Score:2)
I think the article implies that simply staying up late means you get less sleep and therefor are less healthy, but it could also be that people who prefer late to bed and late to rise tend to snack more at night and, in more general ways, have unhealthier lifestyles.
On the other hand, I agree wholeheartedly that night owls should be allowed to be at work later than their early bird counterparts. I'm good with working later, too.
Shift Worker (Score:5, Interesting)
OMG, I do not care! (Score:2)
Seriously. The incessant attempts of the Larks to demonstrate their superiority over the Owls is just tiring and stupid. I will continue to ignore them, in particular because there is nothing wrong with being an Owl and there is no way to change it anyways. Because one thing is for sure: A major reason for this difference is the fault of the Larks. They are forcing Owls to get up when they have not yet finished sleeping. It is really no surprise that impacts health.
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because there is nothing wrong with being an Owl
TFA says that there is.
and there is no way to change it anyways
Maybe not now that you are an adult. But remember when you were a teenager and people told you that you needed to learn to adjust your sleep cycle to the realities of the educational and working world? And how you all cried and moaned about how that was not possible? If it really isn't possible, genetics dealt you a shitty hand. Enjoy your sundowner syndrome, dementia, early onset Alzheimer's and death. But wouldn't it really suck if this behavior was in fact learned and you could hav
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Such an excellent example of what GP wrote about.
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New plan, we'll give you a call at 2 A.M. for nightly meetings where we can discuss it fully.
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Well, for starters, unlike you I am not a psycho, so I do not fail at being human. That alone already puts me far ahead of you. And second, since you seem to need being toxic here and trying to put people down, I can only conclude that you are a really pathetic looser, money or not. Incidentally, you read far too much into that study, possibly again in a desperate attempt to convince yourself of your imagined superiority. In actuality, your whole set of comments drips desperation. Go troll somebody else, yo
Everything dies (Score:2)
Are you a bird or a worm? (Score:2)
The Early worm gets eaten by the bird.
Night owls might die sooner, but the make most of their life. The early birders get up early, show up for appointment on time and wait for the masters of the world, us, night owls, to show up late. They waste so much of their time, the extra years they live is probably not worth it.
An interesting story from Hindu scriptures. When a childless couple prayed to Lord Shiva, He gave them a choice, a dimwit who will live for 100 years, or a g
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Oh gross!!!!
First thing I've ever read that made me think about becoming an early riser.
It's a conspiracy (Score:2)
My Proverb.... (Score:2)
Late to bed and early to rise.... Makes it hard to keep open your eyes!
Closed eyes lead to early death when driving, working, walking, running, and doing just about any daytime activity.
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From HST's suicide note:
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun - for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your (old) age. Relax - This won't hurt."
To my reading, his suicide is entirely in line with his stated philosophy...the only problem was that his body held out longer than he thought. That is the hazard of the "live fast, die young" credo: what do you do when you survive the consequences and end up old and worn out? I don't mean to help rationalize suicide, but it fits his stated belief.
Sleeping in bright light may explain this (Score:3)
I've recently read studies that show that sleeping in bright (especially UV-lit) conditions harms sleep efficiency. I wonder how much of this test's variance would be explained by that? I have blackout curtains in my bedroom for a reason. (The Live Science article even eludes to this in the researchers' recommendation "that people make sure they're exposed to light early in the morning, but not at nighttime." No mention of whether this was controlled for in the study, but I doubt it.)
Another similar thought is that of consistent bed times, which are also shown to help sleep efficiency. Night owls are (perhaps) less likely to consistently go to bed at the same time every night while early risers (perhaps) go to sleep --and wake up-- at consistent times. These are guesses though.
Wouldn't change if it gave me 50 extra years ... (Score:2)
Night Owl here and loving it. I have a 25.5 hour body clock .... if I stick to a regular job I'm fighting to get to bed, in fact before 1 AM is quite rare, even when I'm getting up at 6AM for work. It's the ONLY way to keep my body in a 24 hour clock cycle.
Now that I'm retired, I live the 25.5 life, and don't worry about it. Five to seven hours sleep and I'm up and feeling refreshed. It does mean that sometimes I'm sleeping in the afternoon after burning daylight, night light and morning light, but eventual
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Is it time to mention the obligatory xkcd comic for this topic?
https://xkcd.com/320/ [xkcd.com]
Night Owl Here (Score:2)
Contradict much??? (Score:2)
Aerobic capacity (Score:2)
Banksy (Score:2)
Appropriate Banksy quote: "People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine."
What were the causes of death for people who stay up late?
And what is the effect of the environment? (Score:2)
I don't see any mention of seeing if this early night owl death effect is exactly because the entire social and work structure is set up to be detrimental to night owls ?
Surely night owls have additional stress because work timings in general are completely ill-suited to the night own circadian rhythm.
Vitamin D (Score:2)
Vitamin D protects against cancer, and you make it by getting sunlight on your skin. The dirty secret about tanning beds is that they do increase the risk of melanoma very slightly, but they decrease the incidence of all other cancers by a factor of about 30 in dark climates. It's no wonder that Obamacare's first tax was against tanning beds - Medicare is too damn expensive.
Three Kinds of... (Score:2)
There are three kinds of people. One, the morning larks, who get up early, have a fine day, get along with others, and don't mind what others do.
Then there are the fundamentalist evangelical morning larks, who think they are better than others, are sure that their Morning Lark way of life is perfect and good and proper, and believe everyone else must be beaten into compliance.
Then of course the night owls, who do fine sticking whatever schedule works for them, but have to put up with the fundamentalist l
Re:meh fuck em (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck... shit.... it's fuck'n 2:48am...
FUUUUUCK
going to BED NOW!!!
see you all tomorrow
FUUUUCK!!!!!
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So wait until past 6am or even 8am -- you'll get to bed really, really early. That should make you beat all records of lifespan!
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Give it to me in pain English.
If you truly want it in plain English. That would be:
'If you don't sleep enough, you'll die early. So either start working later, or start sleeping earlier. If the latter one is feasible for you is not yet determined and target of further research.'
If you want the nowadays popular 'angry world' version, it goes something like this:
'If you usually sleep in around 3 AM and your pointy haired boss expects you at the office at 9 AM, you can sue him for attempt of murder. You probably won't win 'though, 'cause t
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People were never primarily day larks, agriculture BECAME the primary motivator to rise recently in our history and it fit well with the whole sun cycle thing so we assumed that was how it naturally should be. We ignored that there are no shortage of natural creatures which are nocturnal.
As far as I can tell most people actually shift slowly toward day lark
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And all those pesky left-handers. And the people without facebook accounts. And the colorblind guys. And the occasional ebohphobe.
(point being eventually you end up writing off everyone but your cousin, with whom you end up reproducing)
I'd say "conform or die" but according to TFA it's more like "conform AND die".
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It is "conform and die" and that is no surprise. Permanently violating your body with an unnatural sleep-cycle is not a good idea. Now, how do we get rid of all these fucked up larks that think they rule the world?
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I'll be there too!
But if not Mars, my next choice is an O'Neill cylinder rotating at 26 hours/turn.