It's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast and welcome back to our three-part series on Kronotypes.

Now in the first episode we spoke about what chronotypes are, how

you can identify which type you are, and also the underlying genetic basis of what determines which type of chronotype you are.

In this second episode we're going to speak about what happens when you are not sleeping in harmony with your natural

chronotype. As is the case with your basic sleep need, if you fight your biology

you normally lose and the way that you know you've lost is

through disease, sickness and imperment and so too is it the case with your

chronotype. Unlike morning locks, evening types or night owls,

they can't fall asleep easily at an early time of night no matter how hard they try. And this leads to the first and most obvious consequence of not sleeping in harmony with your chronotype, which is a significant reduction in total amount of sleep.

What we found is that on average, morning types report sleeping substantively more than seven hours each and every night.

Evening types, however, will average just 6.6 hours of sleep a night.

And this is not even for the extreme evening types who fur far worse as a

consequence now you could say hang on a minute Matt Matt, not so fast.

Perhaps evening types just have a lower sleep need on average,

or for some pathological reason,

they can't generate more than seven hours of sleep a night.

O contrar, because the numbers I just provided are those during weekdays.

Come the less regulated weekend and things look very different.

Morning types are still sleeping around 7.5 hours a night.

Evening types, however, will rock it all the way up from the anemic 6.6 hours a night during the week to a whopping 8.9 hours of sleep each night at the weekend.

There are two things to note here.

First, what this tells us is that night owls are plenty capable of generating a very healthy and very robust

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