re: Getting up early destroys staying up late

Now its someone else's turn to start a thread stating the obvious.

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Care to share what it is for anyone else who may struggle?

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Trazadone

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People who wake up early always brag about waking up early. Why?

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I don't know why they do it, but they do....and it's annoying as frick. My FIL tells me every damn time I see him how he gets up at 430 without an alarm clock. Doesn't need to get up then, just does.

Alright dude, I get it. Congrats on getting up before dawn to sit around in the dark morning, drink coffee, and listen to the news on the radio?

I'm 100% a night owl, usually head to bed between midnight and 2 and get up for work at 8. Weekends I'll sleep in if I feel I need it. I take late afternoon naps most days.

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Though the study provides a more accurate number of hours for optimal sleep health, there are limitations to the research, which included primarily white participants (94%). The lack of diversity makes the results difficult to apply to heterogeneous populations.

"Race and ethnicity should be explored in similar studies to determine their contribution to sleep time requirements, sleep-related genetics, and cognitive consequences of short and long sleep times," Margarita Oks, MD, a critical care pulmonologist and sleep expert at Lenox Hill Hospital who was not involved with the new study, told Health. "Additionally, the database used in the study had relatively healthy participants, and it would be interesting to know if significant medical comorbidities would impact the ideal sleep time, even in this primarily white cohort."

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It's an interesting study, but that by no means decides that "seven hours is best for most adults"

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People who wake up early always brag about waking up early. Why?

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I'm not bragging about it. I'm saying that waking up earlier is more enjoyable than staying up later.

Also, the reverse can be true when it's 7:45 and you tell people you're going to get ready for bed they call you either a toddler or an old man. Why?

I’m up at 3:45 during the week so in weekends I’m usually up by 6-6:30. In bed 10ish during the week, 11 on weekends. Life is too damn short to sleep all day.

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I'm not bragging about it. I'm saying that waking up earlier is more enjoyable than staying up later.

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I semi-agree. But on weekends I love staying up and having a couple drinks by myself and binging shows I don't watch with wife/kids. Now, that used to mean 2AM and now it means midnight, but still, it's the only 2-3 hour block of the week where I can genuinely veg out.

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Because 7 hours of sleep is all one really needs. 12-7 asleep is enough.

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You aren't asleep the whole time you are in bed, which is why it's recommended to get 8 hours of "sleep"