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a lot of the information you just shared is not in the article that was linked. if had been then I would not have called it to be superficial. I mistakenly as

a lot of the information you just shared is not in the article that was linked. if had been then I would not have called it to be superficial. I mistakenly assumed with the tone of the article, that it would make as strong of a point that it could, and this article, presented very little information about all these additional constraints and steps you mentioned. Now knowing about all these additional steps, I'm still left pondering - what if high energy people shifted their sleep patterns? I'm a night owl, and I'm generally a high energy kind of person, but if I was to shift my sleep so that I went to bed earlier and woke up earlier (although tough to pull off for me), maybe my energy would go with me, shifting to earlier in the day. I think that would make a good follow up study: take those night owls and perhaps the early rises as well, and shift their sleep up and then do all these measurements again to see how it affected them. Did they drop in energy, or did their energy go with them through the transition (giving them time to adjust as well).

pygy 17y ago
They give the name of the main authors (first and last), and the journal in which it has been published in the same paragraph, which is actually amazing in a vulgarization article... Usually, you can be happy if they named one of the investigators. It's all about "scientists". That said, it's true that the article itself is light on facts. The fact that the paper had been published in Science was a good hint, though. I don't think that your "high energy" profile is related to your late profile. Disrupting the natural sleep tendencies (usually) results in diminished energy. The early vs late type depends on a balance between the day/night light variations, and an internal clock that produces an internal sleep pressure. I think that early people have an endogenous cycle shorter than 24 hours, and the opposite for the late type.

pygy 17y ago

They give the name of the main authors (first and last), and the journal in which it has been published in the same paragraph, which is actually amazing in a vulgarization article... Usually, you can be happy if they named one of the investigators. It's all about "scientists". That said, it's true that the article itself is light on facts. The fact that the paper had been published in Science was a good hint, though. I don't think that your "high energy" profile is related to your late profile. Disrupting the natural sleep tendencies (usually) results in diminished energy. The early vs late type depends on a balance between the day/night light variations, and an internal clock that produces an internal sleep pressure. I think that early people have an endogenous cycle shorter than 24 hours, and the opposite for the late type.