Many see it as an essential at the
end of a busy week but doctors have now warned against indulging in the weekend
lie-in. Researchers claim sleeping in late on Saturday and Sunday messes with
the natural rhythms of your body making you feel worse rather than more rested.
Psychologist and sleep researcher told it’s partly because of our circadian
rhythm, so when you sleep in later, it likes giving yourself a bit of jet-lag
and jet-lag makes you less bright and perky. If you sleep a little bit too
little all the time and just catch up on the weekends, you are messing with
your circadian rhythms, you should stay on a regular schedule but that doesn’t
really work with most people’s lives.
We should get up and go to bed at
about the same time every day. Do not sleep in late on weekends. Do not have a
lie-in. if you get up at 12pm on the weekends, it will take time for your
rhythm to adjust back. And despite the onset of autumn and winter being the
most tempting time to stay in bed, it is actually the most important time of
the year to stick to your normal sleep routine for wellbeing. It is not the
first time the weekend lie-in has come for criticism from the medical world. The
research found an association between changing sleep patterns and changing
sleep patterns and changes in blood test results, with levels of the fat triglyceride
increased and the level of the “good” type of cholesterol lowered.
Those who shifted their sleep
pattern were also more likely gain weight during the study. All of which has
left the future of slumber at the weekend looking less than golden.
