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Scientists from 5 Universities warn that cutting sleep is leading to serious health problems.

The body clock drives huge changes in the human body and alters mood, alertness physical strength and even the risk of a heart attack in the daily rhythm.

It stems from our own evolutionary past when we were active in the day and sleeping at night.

The article gives some tips for living with your body clock and says that experiments show that people can become pre-diabetic after a few weeks of shift work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27286872

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17680882
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/129/129ra43


There is a quiz to see if you are getting the right balance or you are classed as an owl or a lark.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27161671
 
Hello cc how are you, keeping well I hope? I will take the test, but I know I am definitely not a night time person,more a lark.
With best wishes.
 
Apparently I'm as much of a night owl as I can possibly be... I'm definitely more productive in the later hours and would work nights if I could, but I never really notice it having an impact on my life. Still get ready at 5.30am and leave the house for 8am, get back home for around 7pm. I sometimes sleep and sometimes don't but I just really love the peace and quiet of the night time.
 
Giverny said:
Apparently I'm as much of a night owl as I can possibly be... I'm definitely more productive in the later hours and would work nights if I could, but I never really notice it having an impact on my life. Still get ready at 5.30am and leave the house for 8am, get back home for around 7pm. I sometimes sleep and sometimes don't but I just really love the peace and quiet of the night time.
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Ah but you're still a youngster, compared to some of us lol I am going to take the test now.
 
Robinredbreast said:
Hello cc how are you, keeping well I hope? I will take the test, but I know I am definitely not a night time person,more a lark.
With best wishes.
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Did the quiz twice to make sure and I am definately a lark.
 
Hi daisy living in beautiful Switzerland ,I'm not surprised you're a lark :-)
 
I was listening to a Professor on Breakfast News at the weekend arguing that it would be more beneficial for schools to start at 10am as teenagers need more sleep. To be honest, I could have put my foot through the TV (maybe lack of sleep?) as not once did he dare to consider that teenagers could actually go to bed earlier instead of spending the night on ipads, phones, x-boxes etc etc.
I am interested in all things evolutionary but sometime think that we forget that this is an ongoing process. Yes, our ancestors may have been ruled by daylight as they had to hunt or gather and then bed down for the night to avoid being hunted or gathered themselves. However, they had no distractions to keep them amused and no central heating to make the evening an enjoyable time, especially in the winter months. As societies have evolved we have pushed the boundaries and found ways to be warm, well lit and entertained in the darkness. I think this has been the case for long enough now that our bodies will have adapted in some way, shape or form.
If the human body, evolutions single most impressive bit of machinery, still has a body clock living so far in the past then we are all in deep trouble.
 
We are talking less than a hundred years that even a significant portion of the population had electric light. Candlelight and firelight were ineffective and expensive. If 6-10 thousand years isn't enough time for us to evolve to eat a grain based diet without lots of us getting ill, a hundred years or so is barely the blink of an eye in evolutionary time.

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