Could your weekend lie-in kill you? asked the Daily Mail last week. It cited a study in this month’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM) that links sleeping more at weekends with an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease. Since most of us change our sleep schedule depending on whether it’s a work or non-work day, it’s an interesting question. Is lying-in really so dangerous? Researchers say that changing sleep patterns causes social jet lag. Is that even a thing?
Shifting our sleeping hours by a few hours has the effect of crossing a time zone – it throws out our circadian rhythms and makes us sleepy during the day. It also – according to JCEM’s study, of 447 people who were monitored with a wrist accelerometer for a week – increases levels of triglycerides and lowers levels of the “good” type of cholesterol. People who shifted their sleep patterns were also more likely to gain weight during the study. Those with an evening chronotype – meaning their biological clock is more suited to going to bed and waking later – were more at risk of these changes than earlier sleepers and risers. So should you set your alarm at the weekends?
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