Does What Time You Get Up Impact Chance of Breast Cancer?

Health Wellness

Back in April, I wrote about how a study revealed that people who are known to be early birds tend to live longer than those known to be night owls.

We all know people who are one or the other. Many of us have had work colleagues who were habitually late for work because they overslept. Generally, the reason was that they stayed up too late every night. These are often the people who say they don’t function well until afternoon or have to have a minimum of 1-2 cups of coffee in the morning just to wake up.

I’ve always had a hard time understanding these people because I understand that it’s their habits that make them so tired and useless in the mornings. This most likely because I’ve always been an early bird.

I had chores to do before school until I got into high school and then I had horses and dogs to tend to before school every day. I was not a partier because I always got up so early. Many of the jobs I’ve had over the years also started early, one of which started at 5:00am in the summer, to beat the Arizona heat.

Even today, when I can sleep later, I can’t sleep in unless I’m sick. Getting up early has always seemed natural to me, but then I tire out in the evenings while the night owls begin their nightly activities.

That report stated:

“‘Night owls’ might pay a price when it comes to their health and longevity, a new study reports.”

“Folks who stay up late and struggle to wake in the morning have a 10 percent higher risk of dying sooner than so-called ‘morning larks’ who are early to bed and early to rise, said lead researcher Kristin Knutson. She’s an associate professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.”

“Night owls also had more health problems — twice the risk of psychological disorders, 30 percent more risk of diabetes, 25 percent increased risk of neurological problems, 23 percent higher risk of gastrointestinal disorders and 22 percent increased risk of respiratory disease.”

A new report offers additional evidence that early birds tend to live longer:

“A team at the University of Bristol in England analyzed data from 180,215 women enrolled with the UK Biobank project, and 228,951 women who had been part of a genome-wide association study of breast cancer led by the international Breast Cancer Association Consortium. The findings, which were not peer-reviewed, were presented at the  NCRI Cancer Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.”

“Using a genetic method known as Mendelian randomization, researchers found that women who prefer mornings have a 40 to 48 percent reduced risk of developing breast cancer. Also, the research notes that women who slept longer than seven to eight hours had a 20 percent increased risk per additional hour slept.”

These studies tend to lead credence to the old rhyme – ‘early to bed and early rise makes a person healthy, wealthy and wise.’

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