Your body is recharging its energy stores. “If you keep it regular enough, your body knows when it is coming, so it can optimally prepare.” How a Regular Bedtime Aids the BodyĪ lot happens during sleep. “When we have a regular bedtime, our sleep biology can rally around that and train itself around that time,” Grandner explains. “We are creatures of habit.” Just like our body prepares itself and relies on food at the same times each day, the body does the same for sleep. “The body loves regularity,” says Grandner. Getting to bed at a consistent hour every single night can help. We stay up late on weekends, knowing that we won’t need to wake up for work, but then don’t feel tired when Sunday night rolls around-so we don’t get enough sleep for Monday morning, which throws our sleep schedule off-kilter for the rest of the week.Īccording to the National Sleep Foundation’s 2014 Sleep Index, 35 percent of adults say their sleep quality is only “fair” or downright “poor.” And a more recent poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows one out of three adults don’t get enough sleep-less than seven hours per night, which has been linked to several chronic health condition, including heart disease, kidney disease, and high blood pressure, as well as mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. While a lot of us eat lunch around the same time everyday, the same can’t be said for the time we hit the sack. “It’s because you trained your body when to eat and, like a faithful Labrador, our bodies are trainable.” Creatures of Habit “You are starving, right?” says Michael Grandner, PhD, MTR, a Fitbit sleep advisor and director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. By 1:00pm, your dull hunger pangs have become an angry hunger roar. But as fifteen minutes pass, and then 20, and then 30, that “quick meeting” is starting to feel like a grueling marathon.

You think, It’s okay, it’s no big deal, I’ll just eat right after. But today - surprise! - your boss calls a quick meeting at right at noon. Imagine that you normally eat lunch at noon everyday.

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