According to the leading researcher at Oxford University, Dr. Paul Kelley, waking up for work before 10 AM is the most common form of torture we’re experiencing daily.
The internal body clock or The Circadian Rhythm is the biological timers that mandate our bodily functions and the pre-programmed genetic cycle controls our perception of time, energy levels, brain functions, and hormone production.
Because of that, waking up before 10 o’clock is a way of torture to our body and affects the natural balance in the body negatively.
In his research, Kelley shows that people are not able to change their 24-hour rhythms and one cannot learn to wake up at a certain time. The heart and the liver have different patterns and they are supposed to shift between two and three hours.
During the early 20th century, when the working day of 8-hours was introduced together with the 24/7 factory productivity, no one thought about the natural human body clock.
Consequently, Dr. Paul Kelley shows that this can affect the emotional, physical, and performance systems which can damage our body. All of the workers should be starting at 10 AM. Additionally, he says that people have chronic sleep deprivation which is a worldwide issue.
Furthermore, one week with less than 6 hours of sleep during the night will lead to 711 different changes to the function of our genes.
Dr. Kelley thinks that effectiveness in the workplace should be improved if the simple changes of the starting time and ending time would be implemented.
Many neuroscientists alongside with Dr. Kelly show the importance of knowing the functionality of the body at different ages, specifically for the sleep cycles. Sleep deprivation can start when we’re in the ages of adolescence since teens are predisposed biologically to sleep sometime around midnight. Thus, the teens are not exactly awake until 10 AM in the morning, but because of their early morning schedule with schools, the teens lose about 10 hours of sleep during a week. Additionally, they have a habit to stay awake longer in the night during weekends so the constant readjusting to going to bed early and waking up early cycle which is designed for a 55-year old.
A British school listened to Dr. Kelley’s theory and implemented it in their school system. They started school at 10.00 AM instead of 8.30 AM After some time, many of the students showed significant results since their grades increased as well as their general productivity and attendance.
Because of this, if we choose to implement these changes in all sectors of our society, many people will become happier, more productive, healthy, and filled with joy and energy instead of being stressed, fatigued, and very addicted to coffee.
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