Healthy sleep hygiene includes hitting the hay at the same time each night. However, did you know that regular bedtimes lead to more success at work?
A recent study reveals that a regular bedtime is a major factor that links to success in the workplace.
While we know it’s hard to abandon your favourite social media feed and turn in for the night.
However, doing so could be an integral aspect of your potential to achieve world domination.
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital discovered that people with consistent bedtimes woke up easier, and fell asleep faster.
They ran a study at Harvard College that focused on the sleep diaries of 61 undergrads for 30 days.
Furthermore, they noted that regular sleeping hours were just as vital as getting enough sleep.
Dr Andrew J.K. Phillips led the study. He’s also a biophysicist at the hospital’s Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders.
He reports that:
“Our results indicate that going to sleep and waking up at approximately the same time is as important as the number of hours one sleeps.
“Sleep regularity is a potentially important and modifiable factor independent from sleep duration”.
Sleep hygiene: Keeping your mind clean and keen
Additionally, he explains that good sleep hygiene in the form of regular bedtimes means that melatonin, a sleep hormone, undergoes regular release.
Inconsistent sleep patterns make it difficult for the body to secrete melatonin on a set schedule.
Thus, people that go to bed at varying times confuse their circadian rhythm. This mild trauma has long-lasting and potentially disruptive effects, however.
Furthermore, even though the undergrads averaged the same amounts of sleep, their body clocks varied depending on their bedtimes.
Dr Charles A. Czeisler also led the study, and is the Director of the Sleep Health Institute at the hospital.
“We found that the body clock was shifted nearly three hours later in students with irregular schedules as compared to those who slept at more consistent times each night”, he said.
“For the students whose sleep and wake times were inconsistent, classes and exams that were scheduled for 9am were therefore occurring at 6am according to their body clock, at a time when performance is impaired.
“Ironically, they didn’t save any time because in the end they slept just as much as those on a more regular schedule.”
Go to bed at a decent hour and at the same time each night.
This way, work won’t feel like a slow motion scene in a movie.
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