Topic: Not a Morning Person? Don't Force It, science says
Keebler
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- Excellent article that, um, shines a good light.
Of course, note that this discussion does not factor in illness issues that interfere with whatever type of sleeper you really are / would be without lyme, babesia or other interfering elements.
Attention to good sleep hygiene should not go out the window in any case. Yet this might help balance your goal when considering your actual biology and circadian fingerprints of sorts.
. . . It’s estimated 50% of the population isn’t really morning or evening-oriented, but somewhere in the middle. One in four of us, though, are night owls . . . .
. . . circadian cycle . . . .
. . . your sleep preference may be biologically ‘bundled’ with other characteristics. . . .
. . . Again, correlation isn’t causation, she says. But there may be a connection to genetics. . . .
. . . Being a 'morning person' can be forced, but late-sleepers who set early alarms aren't necessarily any happier or productive . . . . -
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Keebler
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- Many with lyme might think they have become night owls but that could be a dangerous assumption.
Why dangerous, you ask? Because if the adrenal dysfunction that goes with lyme, et.al. is left unchecked,
the cortisol surges that often seem to give a late evening or even midnight "second wind" can cause body & brain great damage. More explanation about that & What helps:
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