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    A study of more than 320,000 people found that night owls are more likely to engage in behaviors that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease such as smoking and sleeping poorly.
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    A study of more than 320,000 people found that night owls are more likely to engage in behaviors that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease such as smoking and sleeping poorly.


    A study of more than 320,000 people found that night owls are more likely to engage in behaviors that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease such as smoking and sleeping poorly.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/like-staying-up-late-you-may-be-putting-yourself-at-risk-of-heart-problems/

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    3. Abraham_Lingam on

      Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man… blah blah blah. Stay up late drinking and smoking, I say.

    4. iPinch89 on

      I dont “engage in” sleeping poorly. What kind of “you did this to yourself” crap is that?

    5. iscariot_13 on

      ‘Engage in behaviors like sleeping poorly.’

      Brother, I don’t sleep poorly by choice. If the world would let me live on the schedule my body wants to, I would. But if I do that I will either have no money, no friends, or possibly both.

    6. Rankin37 on

      As a night owl my vices are definitely not enough exercise and overeating, so I guess this lines up with my personal experience. Though my husband is very much not a night owl and he has the same behaviors + drinking and smoking.

    7. Paksarra on

      I’m a natural night owl working an 8-5 job.

      I don’t *engage* in sleeping poorly. My body just doesn’t want to go to sleep until 2 or 3 AM and doesn’t want to be awake until 11 AM, no matter how consistently I set my alarms. If I’m in bed at 11 PM with no external melatonin in my system, I’m not going to sleep that night because I’ll get worked up over not being able to sleep and not be able to sleep. 

      There’s external supplements that help (I really need to order more of the good magnesium) but left to my own devices I’ll naturally drift that way (setting up an alarm to get up and go to bed on vacation sucks.)

    11. Evening_Cow_8978 on

      It’s true, I’m a night owl and I do large amounts of cocaine and other drugs that keep me up all night.

    12. r7pxrv on

      I love the peaceful calm of the night, not the stress and chaos of the day. If I stretch out the night then so be it, I sleep great because I have great “bed hygiene” where my bedroom is cold, pitch black and only for sleeping.

    13. ClosetGoblin on

      Night owls were necessary back in our tribal days because we were the ones who stayed up and watched over the camp while everyone else slept