#04: Chronotype: Part 1

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Dr. Matt Walker

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🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Episode 04: Chronotype: Part 1SummaryAre you a morning type? Or are you an evening type? Perhaps you are neither of the two? Today’s episode is the first in a three-part series all about your chronotype, or your body’s natural biological preference to be awake and be asleep at a certain time. Matt begins by explaining exactly what your chronotype is, then breaks down the three main “flavors” of chronotype (morning lark, night owl, or somewhere in-between). In addition, and listed in the ...

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0:00.0	Hi there and welcome back to the podcast it's Matt Walker here and I am pleased to
0:09.9	tell you that it's not your fault. Now this is not me trying to lead a class in
0:15.6	self-compassion. I'm talking about when you go to bed and when you wake up. Or I
0:21.5	should say when you would like to go to bed and when you would like to wake
0:26.4	up rather than when society demands that you wake up because the consequences of not sleeping in harmony with your biology are many, some of them are serious, and most of them you will be unaware of.
0:42.0	Today is going to be the first of a three-part series all
0:47.2	about your chronotype. In the first episode we're going to understand what chronotypes are and how you can better
0:54.5	understand which type you are. In the second episode we'll then speak all about
0:59.8	knowing why your chronotype is so important and some of the dangers of railing against
1:06.7	your chronotype.
1:08.3	And then in the third episode we'll discuss whether or not you can, for example, change a night owl into a morning
1:16.7	lock, and if so, by how much?
1:20.2	The quick answer is kind of sort of ish, but we will get to that.
1:28.0	At a fundamental level there are three main flavors of chronotypes, about a third of the population are morning
1:35.8	types a third evening types and the rest sits somewhere in between I should
1:41.4	also note that sleep science has split this into an even more
1:45.4	fine-grained five category system where we have extreme morning types who would want to go to bed as early as 7 PM in the evening.
1:56.4	Then morning types, then the neutrals, then we have evening types and then extreme evening types who would for example wish to be going to
2:06.8	bed as late as 4 a.m. in the morning but for this conversation those three main buckets will do just fine. I should also note that sex matters.
2:19.0	Now I'm sure you didn't need me to tell you that, but what I mean here is that on average
2:26.4	men are more evening types than women with men wishing to go to bed around 30 minutes later in the evening and wake up 30 minutes later.
2:37.0	So same sex partners can rejoice in their better alignment.
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