Not a morning person? U of Alberta study scientifically proves youre not
Ever proclaim youre not a morning person only to be told theres no such thing? University of Alberta researchers can vindi...
Not a morning person? U of Alberta study scientifically proves youre not
Ever proclaim youre not a morning person only to be told theres no such thing? University of Alberta researchers can vindicate you; theyve scientifically proven that there are major differences between morning and night people.
A research group in the Faculty of Physical Education & Recreation looked at two groups of people: people who wake up early and feel most productive in the morning, and the other who were identified as evening people by their answers to a standardized questionnaire. They tested muscle torque, spinal cord stimulation and brain stimulation. The group found that morning peoples brains were most excitable at 9 a.m. and slowly decreased through the day; it was the exact opposite for evening people, whose brains were most excitable at 9 p.m.
Other major findings: •Evening people got stronger throughout the day, but the maximum amount of force morning people could produce remained the same •The excitability of reflex pathways that travel through the spinal cord increased over the day for both groups
These findings show that nervous system functions are different and have implications for maximizing human performance.
Their findings are published in the June edition of Journal of Biological Rhythms.
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Great, that there's science like this. But I think you can actually train yourself to be either an evening person or a morning person. I once was an evening person, preferred to work late, got up late, and yes, at that time my peak hours were in the night. But then I changed my habits, and now I am a total morning person. I don't think that people are hardwired to be one or the other, but rather that the brain adapts to the behavior we consistently enforce.
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