New alarming evidence suggests that it may not be wise to be a nightly owl.
The research has stated that night creatures have an increase in the risk of diabetes, mental health problems and even premature death.
A new study from the Netherlands proposes that night owls can experience cognitive decline faster than early birds, but not because of their sleep times.
“The good news is that you can partly influence this cognitive decline by adjusting your behavior,” said Dementia Ana Wenzler researcher at the University of Groningen.
Dementia, a decrease in memory, language, reasoning and problem solving skills, is a growing problem in the United States. The number of new U.S. dementia cases is expected to jump from 514,000 by 2020 to about 1 million in 2060.
High blood pressure, physical inactivity and social isolation are among the factors that increase the risk of dementia.
Wenzler’s team wanted to see if a previous or subsequent lead calendar had a role in this risk.
About 40% of the world’s population is known as “morning larks”, 30% are believed to be at night and the rest falls somewhere in the middle.
Wenzler analyzed about 23,800 sleep survey responses as part of a large Netherlands study, and found that only 5% of participants were night owls.
“Children are in the morning.
“At around the age of twenty, he turned to the morning people for most people,” he continued. “At the age of 40, most people are again in the morning. But it is certainly not the case with everyone. In this way, people at night deviate from the rule.”
Armed with everyone’s chronotypes, Wenzler compared the results of participants’ cognitive function tests for ten years.
He determined that the movements of the moonlight decrease cognitively faster than the sunrise headlines.
The reason? Unchealthy behaviors such as smoking, drinking and poor food are more often produced in the evening.
“Night people smoke and drink more often and do less exercise,” said Wenzler. “Twenty-five percent of the risk of cognitive decrease can be explained from our smoking research and poor dream.”
This effect was more pronounced in highly educated people.
“It probably has to do with his sleep rhythm,” Wenzler explained. “They are often people who have to return to work early in the morning and are therefore more likely to sleep too short, giving -the brain too little.”
Unfortunately, Wenzler said it is difficult to adjust the biological clock and related sleep patterns.
“You can try to go to sleep earlier, but if your body still does not produce melatonin,” he said, “won’t work: your body simply does not want to sleep.”
She suggests leaning in your favorite sleep style, and if this is midnight madness try to make healthy life options to make up for it.
These findings were recently published in the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Wenzler is planning to further investigate the relationship between night owls, the fastest cognitive decrease in the Middle Ages and dementia.
“This will finally help us to give people informed about how to try to prevent dementia,” he said.
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