Everyday Jet Lag
This article appeared in the October 20, 2013 issue of The New York Times Magazine.
If you consider yourself to be a born morning person or an inveterate night owl, there is new research that supports your desire to wake up early or stay up late. Each of us has a personal “chronotype,” or unique circadian rhythm, says Till Roenneberg, a professor of chronobiology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and one of the world’s experts on sleep. In broad strokes, these chronotypes are usually characterized as early, intermediate or late, corresponding to people who voluntarily go to bed and wake early, at a moderate hour or vampirishly late. If you are forced to wake up earlier than your body naturally would, you suffer from what Roenneberg calls “social jet lag.” …
Keep reading: Everyday Jet Lag – NYTimes.com.
For another interesting article on sleep read: Scientists Have Found The First Concrete Reason Why We Need Sleep
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