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Medical Video: What Happens When A Night Owl Wakes Up Early
Countless more health information calls for the benefits of getting enough sleep 7-9 hours per day and who cautioned about health risks if you often stay up late. But it turns out, there are a number of health benefits from going to bed late, which you might never have known before. (Psstt ... He said, people who like to sleep late at night have a thinner brain!)
People who sleep late have high creativity
People who go and wake up on schedule may be more productive, but those who sleep late are more creative people. This is because going through your daily routine is about what you can do to the fullest with the little time you have.
Those who wake up early spend the morning doing their usual routines, such as going to the gym, dropping by the coffee shop, and going to work. When you wake up at 6 am, you will usually feel tired at nine o'clock, which means you are tired at five o'clock in the afternoon. You usually start your day with a burst of energy, but by noon into the afternoon you already feel tormented with energy that is already very tight.
The opposite of those who like to sleep late. They use the time at night to work and move as usual, to create new things. And their energy will be able to remain constant for the time in the morning. And this was proven by a team of researchers from Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan who found that people who like staying up late are more likely to develop original and creative solutions to problems than people who wake up early.
What's more, when researchers at the University of Alberta compared the strength of nine people who like to get up early with 9 people who like to sleep late at night. The latter group experiences central nervous system impulses, thus increasing the motor cortex and spinal cord stimulation. That means groups of people staying up late have a higher energy boost in general, which can explain why they have difficulty following an earlier sleep schedule.
The same was found by a team of researchers from the University of Liege in Belgium in 2009. They reported that people who like staying up late have higher brain activity in areas associated with focus and attention, even after 10 hours they stay up late, rather than people people who sleep enough and wake up in the morning.
People who like staying up late are more immune to stress
Those who sleep late and wake up late may often be considered as lazy people, and lose a lot of time to start activities. But those who wake up late have better moods all day than those who sleep and wake up on time.
Experts believe that mood swings are bad because of waking up in the morning related to the time of longer morning activities to take care of various activities at one time and will continue to be busy until the whole day, so that they feel frustrated, upset, and lack of energy in the end Conversely, people who like to stay up late and wake up later feel more relaxed in their day.
The team of researchers from the University of Westminster analyzed saliva from 42 volunteers with different sleep schedules eight times throughout the day for two days. After analyzing all the samples, they found that people who slept on time and woke up early had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol than those who stayed up late and woke up later. People who like to wake up early also report more frequent headaches, colds and chills, and muscle aches - which make the mood more plummeting.
People who often stay up have a higher IQ
Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary scientist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has an explanation of why people who like to sleep late have this advantage. According to him, humans are designed evolutionarily to be more active during the day because humans cannot see in the dark, and therefore need light to guide the direction in which we go. That's why we are "programmed" to wake up at sunrise and go to sleep at night.
Kanazawa continued, smarter individuals intentionally rebelled this "fate" of evolution so they chose to stay awake all night and sleep at sunrise.
Kanazawa's research shows that those who create new evolutionary patterns (compared to those who survive the normal patterns developed by our ancestors) are the most progressive groups of humans. After all, those who first changed, dared to get out of stereotypes to look for something new, always being the most progressive and intelligent in a society.
Researchers at the University of Madrid looked at the circadian rhythm (body biological clock) of 1,000 teenagers and then evaluated their academic performance and general intelligence. About 25 percent of them include children who sleep on time and wake up in the morning, 32 percent are those who like to sleep late, and the rest are between them.
The group that likes staying up late shows a higher quality of inductive reasoning than the other two groups. Inductive reasoning is the cognitive aspect of the brain measuring general intelligence and can greatly predict academic performance. Late night sleepers also tend to have better job careers and higher incomes, when followed up later.
