Sleep is vital for our health, but according to the CDC, more than one in three adults say they are not getting sufficient sleep. Now, new research suggests it’s not just how much sleep you get, but when you are going to sleep and waking up that matters. more than 1 in 3 adults say they are not getting sufficient sleep. Now, new research suggests it’s not just how much sleep you get, but what time you go to bed and wake up that matters. those people who stay up late and wake up later, appear to have superior cognitive function, while early risers had lower scores on the cognitive test. people who stay up late had, quote, superior cognitive function, while early birds had the lowest scores individuals who said they were morning versus people who are in between and those folks who were at night, and they found that individuals who said that they were intermediate in between morning and evening, and those individuals who were night old’s, they had better cognition in this study. really provides a unique, interesting opportunity for us to understand the timing of sleep and the type of sleep, where you are, when you most optimally, will do better in your day people who are oftentimes seen as morning individuals, these are the individuals who go to bed earlier and wake up earlier, they actually have lower rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. So how you can maximize your rest is pretty much you want to make sure that your sleep schedule is consistent. You want to also ensure that you reduce the amount of stress that you get before you go to bed. You want to reduce also the amount of food that you eat right before bed, and you want to remove all the different blue light from your phones or your mobile devices, because that can significantly impact your quality and the time of sleep that you get.
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Friday, September 13, 2024