Night owls appear to have the edge over early risers

posted by John Lampard on Monday, 27 April, 2009 to the comment subset

The notion that we all must rise at some ungodly early hour in order to be healthy and successful has been scuppered by on-going research.

And while it has been found that it is indeed a case of different strokes for different folks when it comes to sleeping preferences, so-called night owls also tend to be smarter than early risers:

Previous studies have shown that getting up late appears to be in our DNA, with our body clock regulated by a series of genes which determine whether we are larks or owls. Other studies have debunked the popular saying ‘early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise’. Night owls have been shown to be cleverer than larks, with quicker minds and better memories. They also earn more.

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