What Being a Night Owl Does to Your Health | SciShow News
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we where the ones who protected the cave houses at night
betrayal
😂❤🙌
Society: builds itself around the circadian rhythm of the early birds
Also society: why are these night owls more prone to depression?
kartaiss SO MUCH THIS
Society: builds itself around the circadian rhythm that best fits the daily cycle of sunlight, in theory enabling the best vitamin D absorption, as well as blue light exposure to aid alertness
Also society: makes lights that mimic sunlight without building in a timer function, enabling night owls and exacerbating their problems
^ I fixed it.
@@jamersbazuka8055 Nuance is everything....
@@jamersbazuka8055 Night owls existed long before the invention of electric lights
@@elmodogood5344 Can you get me some data on depression in night owls vs mean population in the 1800s or before?
Also, electric "sunlight" is a far more recent development than the public adoption of electric light.
The true reason why night owls suffer more from various deseases is because we live in a society that forces everyone to get up early.
🦉😑🌃
“I’m fat because society”
This is a very valid point.
@@Protocol15 Oh, grow up. Just because it doesn't affect you doesn't mean it is frustrating to others, myself included. And it's not "lazy habits", it's natural variations in circadian rhythm and other genetics. For someone with "scientific" in their name, you don't seem very scientifically inclined.
@@Protocol15 The night owls would be the one protecting everyone else from being eaten while others were asleep.
and how is it lazy to sleep at a different time?
Society is actually pretty lenient to night owls. Urbanization and the invention of the lightbulb allows most Americans to sleep past sunrise. Imagine if you had to grow your own food.
The biggest health hazard of being a night owl is that you are living in a World designed for early birds (I'm a night owl AND a lefty so I'm doubly at risk). There are shocking estimates about the number of injured workers who were less attentive than needed because they were up and working before their body and brain were really awake.
Certain people tell me that I should get up early and cook in the morning. I keep trying to explain to them that I will probably hurt myself if I try chopping or cooking anything when I'm half asleep because I had to get up early.
What's being a lefty got to do with it though
@@Opened_egg a lot (if not all) of tools are made for right-handed people, since they’re the majority
@@Opened_egg look at a couple objects in your life, notice a certain directional bias, kinda inconvenient tbh man
Night owl and Lefty here too!
Man, I’m not sure that I don’t choose be a night owl. Everybody else is asleep and I can do whatever I want without having to worry about the usual responsibilities. I love that.
Me too I learn guitar technics at late night hrs because it's so silent and my mind can constrating on what i'm and i have improved a lot.
Oh yeah night time its great for most activities, you don’t get disturbed at all.
Exactly 👍😎
I read years ago that introverts tend to be night owls for obvious reasons, dunno if it's true - but I'm an introvert and a night owl...
@@TitanUranusOfficial yes, same for me
I'm watching this at night
I'm watching at 3:09 am wide awake.
2am
@@the-Tails-the-fox Judging by your profile picture I'm guessing you do psychedelic work, or am I wrong?
5:AM
As a night owl, my health improved after I retired and was able to stay up and wake up later. It was the constant waking up up early that caused my health problems.
No, you just started sleeping more... 🤦♂️
I am 34. 31 years to go. FML
I've been a night owl all my life, despite society forcing me to follow an early-bird schedule throughout school and into adulthood. Several years ago, I finally found an overnight job that fit my natural schedule. I lost weight, felt better, made new friends, went out more, and was just generally happier than ever before. A few years after that, my company eliminated all overnight positions. Within months of being forced to work mornings, I was having frequent migraines. Within a year, I'd developed sleep apnea, and after two years I had gained 100 pounds and developed major depression.
So, yeah, pretty sure there's a reason night owls have a tendency to have mental and physical health issues, and it's not because of our chronotype, it's because we're discriminated against.
Few, if any, businesses are open at the times we're awake. Going grocery shopping without a 24-hour store, or making appointments for anything medical or financial, requires disrupting our sleep schedule one way or the other (I'd usually make early appointments and stay up to go to them), but those are minor inconveniences compared to being forced to keep a daytime schedule.
What's more, society would benefit greatly from allowing us nightwalkers to work on our natural schedules. Daytime traffic would be reduced greatly, along with the burning of fossil fuels that accompanies it (one study found that up to 40% of emissions occure while cars are idling in rush-hour traffic). Offices could use less space if only two-thirds of their workforce was working at ant time. Energy use, rather than going up, would actually drop due to reduced construction of roads and offices, as well as reduced lighting and air conditioning from smaller spaces. And of course, medical costs would be reduced for the night owls, while productivity would increase.
But we night owls are outnumbered, and many of us probably don't even know we're nocturnal, thinking they're just "not a morning person," so it's unlikely that we will throw off the daywalkers' oppression any time soon.
yeap
Reading your comment was the first time I didn’t get down on myself for not being a “morning person”. I’m always hearing from my family that I’m lazy and need to get with the program. I loved reading your viewpoint! Thinking of what you wrote will help me moving forward.
BTW can I ask what your job during night was?
I couldn't agree more with a comment if I tried. When I was in the Navy and was on night rotation for the hospital ward I was assigned to at my first duty station (was a corpsman or medic for everyone else who doesn't know what that is) but anyways. When I would be on night rotation for 6 weeks or so I was actually unbelievably more productive, worked out more and generally was in a happier place. While when I was on day shift I was the complete opposite, always tired, more irritable and generally less happy as I have never like being an early riser and have been a night owl for basically as long as I can remember.
Not to get too philosophical, night is the natural state of the universe unless you are near enough to a star, yet people act as if those who prefer it are some sort of creature that isn't natural. I feel the same way about remote working, the only reason companies don't want to allow the majority of their work force to work remotely is because it's harder to micromanage someone remotely. Rather than being able to hover over their shoulder day in and day out in an office and make their life a living hell for 8-12 hours a day depending on your profession. Now obviously not all jobs can be done remotely and I understand that, but if the recent world events have taught us anything, it's that people generally a more efficient when they aren't being micromanaged like they school children.
In the end I just prefer the night because it's peaceful, I don't have the constant noise of the day going about in the house, I can finally relax and get work or other things I put off because I'm either too tired or don't have the free time to do so. Being a night owl is who I've been and prefer, that and I hate the sun lolz
@@kasietaylor6458 I was doing tech support for major accounts for Verizon. By "major accounts" I mean things like the FBI, White House, NASA, overseas embassies, and the systems that control traffic lights, emergency dispatch, etc. Stuff that _had_ to work.
Idiotically, when the company decided to remove night schedules at my call center, they moved my job to a different call center...which had not been open at night until then. They assigned 30 people to do the job of the eleven people on my team, didn't train them (their supervisor messaged me asking how to fill out their timesheets for overnight shifts!), and kept the call center open just for that team, whereas my center had been handling international tech support with about 50 people for years.
Because they failed to train the new team, they lapsed on their contractual obligation to fix issues within certain timeframes and the company lost several of the big accounts, including NASA, which alone paid over $3 million _per month._
And this all happened because one of the VPs had a "bright idea" to put all business accounts in the same call center and no idea how to execute it.
I couldn’t agree more with both of you. It’s somewhat comforting to know I am not alone in this. ❤
SLEEP IS FOR THOSE NOT WORTHY TO EXPERIENCE THE NIGHT
And without the ability to see
Ikr
SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK
Smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
XD made my night 😂
Yes!
"Well. I guess I'll die"
Be gone
Hi Justin!
Just 7 minutes ago? I'm early this time at catching you 😊😎😘
Holy! Justin Y. watches SciShow!? And I caught a comment of his that is not even 30 minutes old!? Welp. Inb4 SciShow pin/love this comment. Lol. (Looking at you SciShow, you better do that, this guy's bad-ass. :P)
Justin take notes, it must take time to be everywhere 😂
To me it seems obvious that human evolution would have driven a small percentage of the populations or tribes to be 'night owls'. If a tribe had a few night owls able to stay awake at night to keep watch against predators or other hostile humans, this tribe would survive and pass along those genes. Likewise it wouldn't be favorable for all to be night owls. So evolution selected a percentage that best fit human survival.
clearly it would be morbidly inconvenient for people to wake up to an entire crop being devoured by wild deer and pigs
I’ve heard father is a genetic
Variation of about 10% of the pop. That makes them night bowls and apparently a lot of performers and artists have this variation. I heard it on a podcast, didn’t look into it further but the person making the claim seems like an informed person and it makes logical sense to me at least.
I found that my health has much improved since I've found a job that lets me work in the afternoons and evenings, so I can sleep longer and wake up naturally in the mornings. Not needing an alarm clock, except for every now and then, has improved my overall quality of life significantly. From personal experience, I think lots of those health problems being related to having to be active against your natural rhythm is the most likely explanation.
always been a night owl. I like the dark more and i sleep better during the day.
I just wish more businesses would be open for shopping at night.
I personally feel that it's a societal cause and that if night owls had all the same societal benefits as day birds do there wouldn't be risks.
I'm talking about business staying open all night, I'm talking about parks being open at night for all the same hours as they do at day. I'm talking about everything in the country being the same in terms of being able to go out and work and shop and come home except that there's no giant death orb in the sky.
I wanna be able to shop at night _without_ being forced to go to walmart. I wanna be able to go outside at midnight and eat my "lunch" at subway.
If this were the case all over I think the results of the study might change because night owls just aren't given the same opportunities to be sociable outside as the day-walkers.
I totally agree in principle. If we could be a 24hour society then yes I agree that night owls would benefit. Although then the morning people would have problems, because a big majority of people naturally sleep during the night. To keep open restaurants and stores we'd need a lot of day people to artificially become night owls and that's not good. I cant re watch the video with out deleting this so please forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think it said there was no health risk increases for natural night. I take that to believe that things like shift work disorder and the health risks are still there for people who have to artificially make themselves stay awake at night.
Being a night owl though I would love to be able to do things at night too and not be teased for sleeping later
@Jesse Newton ever wondered why they are so horrible? If the world was a 24 hour one, they wouldn't be horrible. There would be people there and there would be a social life, since night owls would be able to follow their natural rythm. I know a lot of other night owls who also force themselves to do work when they're just bombed and super tired. They'd much rather do it at night, but they cant because the world doesn't work that way.
@@mamsmith83 soon my fellow night owl. As our world gets more and more automated, it increases the likelyhood of a 24 hour schedule and not just the generic, day only one
Almost 30% of people report being a night owl so in urban regions I think it would be possible since there are so many people that 30% would be enough to run shops and stuff on their own.
@@mamsmith83 need a day society and a night society
I don't care what it does, I live for the night.
I`m a nyctophile as well, always have been
@@afrog2666
I've only recently discovered necrophilia, but I'm liking it.
@@rock3tcatU233 to be fair, society frowns upon both
We are more oppressed than gamers
You merely adopted the night, I was born in it, moulded by it!
I'm a morning owl... no... A night owl. Depends on the day...or night.
I’m somehow both? I just can’t see myself falling asleep before 11pm unless I’m sick or I didn’t sleep at all the previous night (same thing for naps, I hate napping, I get sleep paralysis from it like 25% of the time), and I’m pretty awake from 11pm - 3am. However, I also like to wake up early. I really don’t know what this means...
Well for one thing it means I average 3-5 hours of sleep per night, which is probably pretty bad....
If I could sleep whenever I wanted is probably have a weird sleep schedule like sleeping from 5am -1pm one day and 4pm - 12am on another
I'm so much of a night owl, I'm technically a morning owl.
Im a night bird
It is 4:59 right now...
im nor night owl nor an early bird... im somewhat "always tired pigeon"
Nothing if you use dark mode for everything.
How to properly clean your metal computer Are you a programmer?
Why do I see you everywhere?
Does it taste good
The new Justin Y.?
How to properly clean your metal computer I see you everywhere
Im a super hero.... My power?
I dont get tired until 2am.
Here I'm awake till 5am in the morning.
@@zealzest9130 we should team up. We could be unstoppable! 👍
Pff, try 10am of the next day
7 am after the fact
I once didnt sleep for 3 days u suck kid #getonmylevel
I'm a From-Whatever-Time-I-Get-Up-To-Whatever-Time-I-Go-To-Sleep Owl.
same
Oh, thank goodness. I thought I was the last of a near-extinct species.
same!! I think I'll put your phrase in a plaque above my bed ♡
this truth right here
Same here! I don't follow a specific pattern
Another aspect is that things just aren't available at night compared to day. The obesity part could be linked to the fact that most nightime activities are rather sedentary, it not particularly smart to go for a jog at 2 AM. Not to mention more people have day jobs, so someone who is awake at night, sleeps through the morning, and works in the afternoon might not get as much social interaction. And yes, I am speaking from personal experience...
It's literally 3:30 AM and I'm watching this!
5pm here
You must be on the exact opposite side of the world from me. 3pm for me.
Hlo hlo..me also..From india
@@happychaosofthenorth I'm from India. And I expect you to be from an American country, if I'm not wrong!
@@kumarsanu2499 Hello fellow Indian, hope you have a good day 😊
I mean being a night owl in a morning bird world is bound to cause issues if it means fighting against what the body wants to do.
No just go to bed earlier
I feel like i can't do much and i'm not particularly productive during the day. Never have been. But when the clock get's to that magic hour of 10 or 11 p.m. it's like i wake finally up. My cognition gets very sharp, i can read and learn for hours and hours till the morning and was doing it sucessfully for many years as a student. But now when i have to get up at 6 a.m. to go to job, i just can't fall asleep in the evening. Even after continously waking up that early. I really need some professional help xD
😞 it sucks to be in that situation. I find that my mind becomes more aware when it’s dark, which made it even harder to sleep at night as a kid with a vivid imagination
I’m not a night owl...I’m just an insomniac
Check out Michael Sealy,Jody Whiteley,Robert Waggoner and Jeffrey Mishlove.
My husband refers me as a neversleeper
Evariste Galois +
@@Messy_but_magical I know a few of those unfortunately. But they have a little help with this bish called Crystal. Crystal M. Stay away if you ever cross paths with her.
Xanax will fix that lol
Use the browser add-on DarkReader. Makes every web page dark mode. 10/10 makes life amazing.
OMG Thank you this is amazing.
Important PSA
Thankyou
@@BeeKisses You're welcome you guys. More people need to know about this. It actually helped fix my sleep schedule since I wasn't staring at blinding white web pages all night.
If being a night owl is so detrimental then why didn't natural selection eliminate it from our genetics? There must be some benefits!
And I believe that most of the health concerns arising from being a night owl arise from the stress placed on us to conform to a 'normal' early risers schedule. What's so bad about doing everything they do, but a few hours later?
@@safir2241 ok, but again, what's wrong with getting up later and sleeping later than 'normal'?
The main benefit of being a night owl is that I can eat as much cheese as I want without being judged by anyone else because they're all asleep...
I would assume that in our past it was beneficial to have members of the clan awake at night to keep the fire going and to defend the cave from smilodons.
@@AlisonBryen Oh hell yeah!!
@@massimookissed1023 uh huh, pretty sure I watched a video that argued the same point! It makes a lot of sense really.
Did they make a difference between involuntary and voluntary 'night owls'? Like those those with stress and therefore insomnia or those that willing like to stay up late?
I'm curious about this. Because some people call themselves night owls. And they are just insomniac that can't sleep. Usually due to stress and other issues. While people that I know, that are really night owls. Don't have obesity, diabetes or mental problems. They are perfectly well and happy. Just like a "early bird" just, that they function better at night. People that stay up all night, and then don't function properly, I don't consider them night owls.
@D4RKplayz A mess? XD
As in you alternate or that you are in between? Half&half? Erm... a De-caf person.
Considering some animals can change by season, why would it be weird for people to change base on external factors. Body changing base on what it think is convenient.
The study as I read it (NOVA posted it) said that participants self-reported as early-bird, 9-5er, or night-owl.
Involuntary just sounds like insomnia, which is different. I think its more based on when you can actually sleep. If you sleep great during the day, or you can maintain a steady late sleep schedule, then you are most likely a night owl.
I'm a night owl. I can't fall asleep before 2AM usually so I use that time to study and learn new things and plan my schedule around not being anywhere before 10AM if I can. I still try to get plenty of sleep every night so I don't feel tired while being awake.
@Charlotte draws Try waking up earlier or doing more throughout the day. Many people I know who can't sleep usually just don't let themselves get tired by working hard during the day or waking up really late in the afternoon.
Oh E-cigs. I was a smoker for 35 years. My e-cig has allowed me to cut to 1mg of nicotine, and my next purchase will be nicotine free again (I started smoking again for 2 months until my husband nagged me to start vaping again). It is the only way I have found to actually quit tobacco. Also, we need to look at who is doing the studies. The early studies were done and paid for by the tobacco industry that was so concerned about losing customers. Now these same companies are going into the vape business as well, so the studies still need to be carefully monitored for prejudice. I will be 61 next month and I have been a night owl for 61 years. My mom told me that I was a baby who never could get my days and nights straightened out. I worked night shift for most of the years I worked, before fibromyalgia and arthritis caused me to have to stop, and I still worked 2 years after my doctors told me to stop working. My doctor actually called my boss and threatened to report him to the labor department if I kept working, so you can tell I certainly didn't want to quit. I had been working since I was 9 years old and to not work has been a great stress. If I couldn't have my vape when I remember to use it, I don't know what I would do (I forget to vape now for days at a time). Thank God for Medical Marijuana!
So much this. The US studies are heavily influenced by the tobacco companies. There have been several independent studies done in the EU that have been going for the last decade and have much more detailed and conclusive information.
Also, caffeine is highly addictive too, but we let our children consume that without constraint. Being addicted to something isn't a good thing, but it needs to be taken with a bit of thought about other addictive substances that we let roam freely, so to speak.
Not to mention they use cheap cartridges or juice. They also probably ran the coil dry.
Brian Colley Good point. There are a lot more variables in vaping than in smoking cigarettes. The gear, what quality is the liquid, how youre using the device, etc
Glad I found this comment, I agree with it wholeheartedly. I'm in my 30s and was only a smoker for a few years, but I still knew I had to break the habit and vaping was the only way I found to do that effectively. I haven't smoked in 3 years. What bothers me about talking pieces like this and those studies is that most of society, thanks to the news, assumes all vaping is essentially using a device like the juul, which has way more nicotine than necessary and is what these kids are buying from gas stations from employees who know nothing about them. Vaping was not created as a fad, it was created as a way to quit smoking, so the question of "it's not as healthy as not smoking cigarettes at all" is kind of moot. For a lot of people, quitting is the whole point, which funny enough is why a lot of the people included in the study were also long-time smokers. Just like using nicotine patches and other methods, you're able to taper down the level of nicotine you use until you're not dependent on it at all. The juul uses .5 mg of nicotine, with no options for lower doses. Most e-juice manufacturers produce juices with levels as low as .03 or even 0.0 mg. It's a HUGE difference, and the cigarette companies that make the juul and other similar devices created them specifically to keep people dependent on it so they would never be able to break their smoking habit. There are so many different options out there /not/ made by cigarette companies, from what level of nicotine you use, to the device you use, to how often you use it. The risks of vaping go hand in hand with all of these variables and can't be properly studied without taking all of it into account. The language of "vaping bad" is pretty ignorant all around.
I'm not a night owl or a lark. Just some sort of permanently exhausted pigeon.
The moment I see sunlight, I start feeling tired. The moment I see it is night outside, I get a burst of energy. If I was left to go onto my natural sleep schedule, I would be going to bed around noon, and waking up at 22:00-23:00, maybe later. And no, I am not exaggerating, I legit sleep longer than 8 hours.
A lot of e-cigarette users are actually former smokers. Did the surveys mention take that into account?
no
No. Nor did it take into account that many are current smokers. Hence the study is nothing more than clickbait FUD about vaping.
@@LiamE69 exactly
@@LiamE69 how can these people even call themselves scientists? That is such an obvious variable that they didnt account for
@@austingibson806 As confounding variables go, ignoring smoking is the mother lode.
My guess is when you look into this study there will be funding from a source that benefits from people continuing to smoke.
Even more evidence that sleep habits have nothing to do with being "lazy."
If anything, I'd say that the reason Night Owls seem to have a greater propensity for obesity and diabetes is because by the time we're most active, most stores and such are closed. Which means even grocery shopping is often limited to lower-quality and fast foods.
Thanks for your shows these are really knowledgeable and I like watching them on regular basis
I wonder if being a night owl forced into society generally isn't set up for you is what causes the correlation between those mental health issues and other issues not seeing and early birds.
I'm one of those original Vapors, I've been vaping since 2008. And I've known since the beginning that vaping is literally taking the nicotine patch to a smoking process. Many smokers back in those days where hybrids where we used to smoke and vape until we ended up just pure vaping. Smoking is always bad for you. Being on the nicotine patch is always bad for you. Vaping is always bad for you. But if you are a smoker, the nicotine patch and vaping is better for you. But if you are not a smoker or whatsoever, do not go into vaping.
Good advice!
@@ChristophBackhaus then eat a tomato. Also, cite your references. Lastly, learn context. This conversation is about smoking. In this case, these are artificial quantities of the chemicals compounded. Your statement is misleading and uneducated.
@@ChristophBackhaus Your first resource just says Vaping is better than Smoking which no one here is arguing against.
Your second one has a small data set and talks about tranadermal nicotine, the nicotine patch, which is very different from vaping. Though it's small sample size did have small improvements in memory that could be random chance or other factors.
And third one says results vary wildly and it's hard to tell if non-smoking nicotine helps with parkinsons.
Nothing proves that vaping protects against mental illness
Christoph Backhaus Again, no one is arguing that vaping is as bad or worse than cigarettes. It's a matter of relatives vs absolutes. Vaping is much better than smoking (or smoking is that much worse), but that doesn't mean it's good on its own. We need to do a lot more thorough research to actually determine the long term effects vaping has before we know for sure.
Papers criticizing the conclusions of other papers (even its own) are incredibly common. It's a scientific method to highlight where we need to do more research to make better conclusions. It is *****NOT***** meant to discredit or falsify the conclusions outright, you need a large collection of research to make that kind of claim without any significant caveats
You should ***NOT*** immediately go "Eureka, a cure!" the moment a study confirms your preconceptions about a subject. If you cared at all about scientific methods and results, you'd go "This seems very promising. Let's do/find some more research on the matter to see if the conclusion holds up!" Scientists are skeptical precisely to avoid the biases that you're showing. People are incredibly influenced by their beliefs and their sponsors. The reality is that we need lots of data collected from people with different beliefs and approaches to be able to eliminate the effects of that bias.
Yes we don't have a cure for those and yes it's extremely important that we find a cure ASAP. But jumping to conclusions can do *far* more harm by leading researchers down a path that won't lead to anything, wasting decades of research at its worst. Hell, we're still dealing with the fallout of the initial anti-vax funded "vaccines cause autism" paper over 20 years later, which has wasted many millions of hours and dollars on research just to persuade the public of something that scientists have definitely proved for over a decade now. Many *many* other examples for other studies (e.g. Stanford Prison Experiment, Marshmellow test) that is the foundation of decades of research but contains fundamental flaws challenging the claims made in its study
Christoph Backhaus I mostly agree with that, and I understand that there's a point where it's not productive to do more research because it doesn't help the conclusion any more. However, specifically with vaping, it simply has not been around long enough for us to have any definitive research on its long term effects (correct me if I'm wrong), there's still a lot of research to do on that front. We need scientists to study these long-term effects NOW so the data will be useful in the future (e.g. studying the causation with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's) but in the meantime I still agree that there are actions to be taken given the short-term data we already have. Science never really stops, so it's not always productive from a social/ethical standpoint to wait for it to "finish" and conclude with 100% certainty before proceeding. I think there's a happy medium of "good enough" where people can take from those conclusions and make real decisions with it, even if we don't know everything yet. Ultimately its application boils down to a risk assessment of whether it's worth supporting the conclusions now and risking it being wrong or later and risking harm from delay
Nowadays there are actually many safeguards that go into testing vaccines before they are available for use, but yeah when it's epidemic level status you can't always afford that time when millions die every day from it. With your tb point though, based on a bit of research from the internet it seems like it started in early 1900s but wasn't tested on humans until the 1920s, and took a decade or so more to be an accepted form of treatment.
I guess I've never thought about smoking as a "plague" in that sense, very good point
I hope they also checked if the subjects were able to follow their natural cycle! Because having to live the life of an early bird when being a night owl is definitely unhealthy. And vice versa.
Since I retired I finally fell into my natural cycle for the first time in many years (sleep is ~3a.m. to ~11 a.m.) and I'm healthier than ever. Also my depression is as good as gone. I never was forced to start working before 9am though.
Have you also noticed that it's easier to eat after sleeping, and you don't have to get up several times a night to pee? It's absolutely glorious the first time you're actually able to sleep on your natural schedule for any length of time.
@@TiaKatt I don't eat breakfast, so I wouldn't notice. I still get up at least once a night, but I fall asleep again immediately.
The main difference I notice is that I never yawn, I'm really awake when I wake up and I can start with whatever I plan to do almost immediately, even if it requires awareness and concentration -- like playing computer games ;-)
I'm going to celebrate this video with a nap.
Dont sleep lol
I think the health issues are due to society. Can't go shopping for fresh food at night when you are up. The places that are open aren't good for your health. Stuff like banks force you to be up when you don't want to. And people call you and bother you in general during the day. Oh and society in general looks down on you if you no matter what. Go by their schedule? Well you are sleep deprived and aren't functioning correctly so you are an as bad. Especially fit children in school. Actually follow your sleep schedule? Well good luck having people not shame you. It never ends.
When I make art, I tend to stay up all night but I think the results are good.
This is way better because in my country this was uploaded at 11pm :Dd
V4K4R15 G4M1NG Same lol
It was uploaded at 10pm in my contry So Maybe Your in the majority of europe
V4K4R15 G4M1NG midnight over here 🙋♀️ good night finland!
Isn’t night owl 🦉 considered a person awake between 1 am and 3 am??? Need answers
Mine's at 2am lol
Thanks Hank and everyone
I am no longer neither an early bird or night owl. I'm some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.
Why does my heart feel nice and warm in the morning after getting plenty of rest? Almost like having extra love, compassion, and energy to use. It's not everyday that I feel like this, but when I do, it's a great feeling I almost don't want to move from bed.
One day, all foolish Daylurkers will succumb to the irrefutable power of the *night!*
this channel is amazing
Interesting. Im very VERY much a night owl. I can sleep all night, wake up early, and be exhaustedly tired 2-3 hrs later. Then I can sleep during the day for 4 hrs, and be energetic and awake all night. Productive. Get heaps done. Cant go out though. No shops open. Everyone else is sleeping so i cant mow the lawns etc. its frustrating. I hate being awake during the day. I always feel so tired. And even if ive had no sleep, being tired at night is such a different less dragging feeling. I hope they keep doing more research. Or better yet, let me be able to go out and make noise at night. Lol
That e-cigarette study is kind of pointless, given that an undisclosed amount of the people in the study were still smoking cigarettes....what was the point of that? You'd think it would be a pretty important control in the experiment.
You're right, that's a prime example of selection bias
It isn't pointless it's preliminary it meant to point in a direction and say there might be a problem over there. The media usually takes it as fact but a preliminary study is just that preliminary. Sadly the chronic effects of vaping are hard to study at the moment since it's still a new product, this means that getting a relevant sample size of people that have been vaping for a long time (years-decades) and never smoked is hard if not impossible because the product hasn't been popular for that long.
@@rafaelagonzalezgalloza3096 If you don't have controls in the experiment (people simply suing e-cigarettes and not smoking) then yes, it is pointless, as your results are flawed and completely misleading at best.
@@rafaelagonzalezgalloza3096 Also, as this study was done in America, I believe some of their products still contain the chemical diacetyl, which causes popcorn lung, something we have outlawed in recent years here in Canada.
@@frankwagner3659 That could be a very important factor but I don't know much about what the cigarettes contain in the US since I just started researching after a friend got very "attached" to his e-cigarette. So I owe you an answer there.
I tend to be a nightowl, and I sleep very well as long as I follow a consistent eat/sleep schedule and a diet conducive to sleeping properly. I also do just fine on non nightowl schedules as long as I have a few weeks to adapt to them. Interesting that genetics may play a part. I kind of wonder if studies on nightowls and health are just finding that nightowls might share some common bad habits when it comes to eating or other health habits like exercise.
Thanks for the answer requested yesterday but posted today scishow is my best friend
Thank you a lot for this.
a benefit to E-cig/vapes is it does not have all of the additional addictive additives pumped into them so they are easier to quit versus regular cigarettes... I will still argue safer but still not safe and they are what helped me kick my 22 year smoking habit
Awww cmon! I stay up watching these videos
Well put together video! Thanks :) +
For the last year and a half i have lived on a night schedule from about 4pm i woke up and went to bed at around 8am because of work, i have not noticed any negative changes, except being bummed out not seeing the sun as much. What really matters is consistent schedule and getting deep restful sleep and taking care of yourself overall. Might be different from person to person and maybe not great to do for years, but certainly it's not as bad as it's made out to be!
I quit a 2 pack a day habit with my ecig... now I can’t quit my ecig 😩😂
Can you do a cannabis episode? Pros and cons that is based off of non biased research??? I’d love it if people learned more about it instead of basing their OP on Nixon era ideals.
Curious. When I was a smoker; I had a harder time going to sleep at a 'normal' time and had more difficulty waking up in the morning, and tended to be a night owl. As soon as I quit smoking (10 yrs ago) and continuing to this day, I started bouncing out of bed early, have more energy and can go to sleep at night within just a few minutes of my head hitting the pillow. They should do a study of smoking habits vs sleep habits.
Nicotine is a stimulant similar in strength to caffeine, so if you smoked late, it would keep you up just as tea/coffee does.
@@rubbers3 Yes, in addition the act of smoking reduces your oxygen intake making you sluggish, which is probably why it was harder to get up in the morning.
like always it depends on the people ...
as a non-smoking teen it sometimes took me more than an hour to fall asleep
as a smoking adult it sometimes still take me an hour but most of the time it's pretty fast even thought I always smoke me a last one before going to bed
I don't drink coffee (never have never will) but other coffeine drinks (like Cola or energy drinks) never affected me (I even sometimes drank one before going to bed without any problem)
Great critical view on research, statistically significant findings certainly have their merit but they rarely capture the big picture
A. I don't sleep well.. until about 3-5AM in the morning.. I'm much more alert at night..and only fall asleep later. B. E-cigarettes, at least afforded me a way to quit smoking and was okayed by my doctor. There still hasn't been long term affect analysis yet, as vaping is NEW.. So.. if something helps kicking smoking nearly altogether, he was happy with it..
Going back to those whom you may see out late at night, not the ones who have stayed out late to drink and bar hop, (totally different subject) but those who work third shift are a different breed of people. They would generally give you the shirt off their back, easier to joke around with, and see the "bright" side of life.. no pun intended.. :)
Wow, it's almost like chronically forcing people to exist on a sleep schedule that conflicts with their body clock, just because it's convienient for society as a whole, can negatively affect their health. Who knew?
Thank god we're getting more research on chronotypes. I have real severe DSPS and people actually looking into makes me think someday I won't be forced to live on a daywalker schedule if I want to have a relatively normal life.
Just finished the video. Perfect time for a smoke.
man hank green is so awesome!
Frankly, so long as e-cigarettes have not yet been found to be harmful to third-parties surrounding them, I'd rather have people vape than smoke any day of the year (if they had to take nicotine at all in either of those ways).
Would I have preferred for neither cigarette to exist? Absolutely.
Could such an event actually come to happen for real? Highly unlikely.
Sergeant Brown Given that many e-cigarettes have more nicotine than many cigarettes even if they have less effects on the body I doubt there any better for their mind. Why anybody besides a previous cigarette or cigar smoking addict uses them is beyond me.
Also, personally, as someone in college, the vapers are waaaaay worse than the smokers. Many of them are *extremely* addicted because of the high nicotine content juice they buy, and being surrounded by vapers whining very publicly and very loudly and getting anxious about running low while blowing that stuff in your face is both nauseating and infuriating. They seem to think because it is "less bad" than cigarettes it's ok to blow right into your face and do in crowded places.
It's like rotten, sticky addictive, addictive febreeze and the stuff lingers and sticks to you. Also it turns my sinuses into an angry and fiery mess that doesn't compare to the irritation caused by cigarettes.
@@snowwonder9814 the only people who use high nicotine is former smokers who just quit. The higher the nicotine the harsher it tastes. Plus nicotine ruins the flavor. That's why people cut down on the nicotine so fast.
I do agree with you that it's pretty rude to blow it in somebody's face. Where I live it's not allowed indoors, and treated the same as cigarettes.
@@snowwonder9814 vaping is not connected to second hand smoke. 85% of second hand smoke stemms from the cigarette burning while the Smoker is not inhaling. That is not the case with vaps. Also 95% of the nicotine is absorbed and the rest is so dispersed that you would not get any side effects. Scientists are quite sure that there is no second hand smoke in regards to vaping. Vaping is more like someone with a strong Parfum or deodorant. Also even if you were to get light nicotine levels (which we all have from food anyway) there is little to no heath consensus due to that. Nicotine except for it's addictive properties has little to no health consequences.
Vaping is a great way to quit smoking. Even long time smokers who did not plan to quit ended up quitting basicly passively in a Studie that was done.
You should incurrege your friends and family who smoke to switch as fast as possible. The harm associated with vaping is low. Estimates are that you could vape your whole life and it would do less harm than smoking for 3 month
Sergeant Brown they don’t have a filter and your just putting stuff in your lungs that’s not oxygen
@@hoodlumscraggy1801 did you see the tests where they put a filter on it and also a cigarette? It was still white and brand new, while the cigarette one was dark brown and had tar on it.
It's really time for more flexible work hours. I have been a night owl all my life and I am glad I can choose to work 9:30 to 18:00. It shouldn't matter... I still do all the work I would do if I'd work 8:30 to 17:00 (probably even better) yet there is still this stigma or judgment like I am lazy doing it. It's nuts to be fair. *NOT EVERYONE CAN CHANGE THEIR BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM TO PLEASE SOCIETY.*
I love looking at the night sky and seeing the lights of businesses while driving at night
I stay up late vaping and watching RUclips. this video is super relevant to me
These people they used for ecig users were already probably smokers for years and that is why their risks are so much higher than the controls who I bet havent smoked ever or havent in a decade. There are so many studies showing how much better and less harmful vapes are. But thats the problem with the internet. I can type in why are ecigs less harmful or are ecigs more harmful and no matter what I search I will get a result. Just like this video. This one says its bad. But there are hundreds on each side of the argument.
Smokers choose to believe those "studies" which support their side, and call the other studies wrong. While non smokers do the same on the opposite side. Also, when one person says, "so many studies show...." Then others just parrot that. No need for citation or anything. Doesn't matter which side you're on, it's your responsibility to spend the hours doing the research if you want to join the conversation. If you don't read the articles yourself, and research the sources of the articles yourself, you shouldn't try to discuss "studies". You agree?
How many of the health risks of being a night owl is associated with living in a world dominated by early birds. By the way I am posting this a 1:46 am.
henlo im responding to ur comment at 12:28am
ever since i was 14, it's been natural for me to go to sleep at sunrise and wake up 8 hours later. various situations compel me to follow a different schedule and i feel constantly tired and sad and foggy during those times.
Were these studies done on vapes that had nicotine? If so, what about a study showing any negative effects of vaping in general.
That's what people wanna know, we already know nicotine is bad for us.
I will sleep more once scientists find a way to get rid of nightmares...
As long as the human brain exists, there will be nightmares and morbid thoughts.
Marc Shanahan there is certain medications that change your dreams.
I was medically prescribed a small dose of clonzaepam for my anxiety at night and my dreams have yet to be nightmares - which they almost always were before the medicine.
I now dream of things I watched or things I did before sleep. However medication effects others differently.
Weed.
Go to sleep stoned, and you are unlikely to remember any dreams.
Lucid dream study
I remember trying to take melatonin to help me sleep when I was younger, but it gave me bad dreams so I stopped
Ever since I left school and haven't had anything to wake up for I have reverted to falling asleep 6am and waking up at 3pm
TLDR: Nicotine is bad, M'kay. (Oh, and being a night owl alone might not be bad for your health.)
I been nocturnal for most of 60 years. On the average, I run about 6 hours past day-timers. Ever job I ever had, it's an ongoing battle between the day-timers and the night-owls. Carpe de noctum!!!
wait how old are u. just curious and also im watching dis at 12:15am (probs gonna sleep in like an hr)
Early to bed, early to rise, makes you happy, wealthy, and wise.
The ~problem with this scenario is people are ~forced to get up early....when are night owls...and lose proper hours of sleep. Being a night owl itself is not the issue.
"Sleep is for the weak"
Spongebob SquarePants “rest is for the weary; sleep is for the dead”
Spongebob SquarePants it's all fun and games until the voices start.....seriously when I was a kid once over summer break I stayed up so long that I started hallucinating full blown conversations with people that weren't even there.....I turned off the GameCube and went to sleep I guess I'm weak
@@ShadowFox10587O The worst it's gotten for me is when I was awake for about 3 days straight, (never again will I drink a cup of coffee) I started laughing hysterically at anything that was even slightly funny.
I gave up that nonsense after my second year of university. Now I prefer "Sleep is for the week".
At least I vape in a month the money that I smoked in a day, and my health improved dramatically.
The e-cig bashing is always sponsored by the classic cigarettes companies.
E-cigs gave my life back, that's for sure.
It's like night and day. You have more energy and your lung capacity changes so fast.
I smoked for 20 years and couldn't run 1 block without my lungs being on fire. 2 years vaping and I can train boxing 30 rounds straight.
Thats wonderful that it helped you cut back, but not doing either would be even better. But its great that you are healthier. :)
It is a good thing that vaping is a viable option for those that want to quit smoking. It's wonderful that both of you are having better lives now that you've switched over!
I am one of those night owls and have been since i can remember. Even back in the day when i was in primary school i could never fell asleep before 11 p.m. and had hard time waking up early. Even after really serious attempts to get my biorythm on track (i've tried everything from eating earlier in the day, not napping during the day even if i was really tired, etc), i just can't sustain it long term and fall off VERY rapidly. Any suggestions would be MUCH appreciated :)
Is it really wise to talk about studies that haven’t been peer reviewed yet? I admire how cutting edge scishow news can be, but this seems to be jumping the gun. Love all your work, keep on kicking goals!
I don't argue that nicotine would be related to heart issues because it does constrict blood vessels, making the heart problems more likely to happen. This is coming from a guy that vapes, but as always more research is needed to get more exact numbers
I guess I’ll be a morning owl
*Early owl
Lark
I'm already a morning owl
I'm sorry I can't afford to support you right now, but I appreciate learning from you.
Glad you covered the potential problems with the e-cig data - had to delete a half written comment, but thanks for the balanced view you've given.
I get really frustrated when np one mentions the type of e-cigarettes in their news articles or when they talk about them in general, as though a nicotine free vape is the same as a juul
You know what I want? I want a vape that’s only vape. Only to do smoke tricks, no nicotine or flavours that give me five types of cancer.
Or dry ice
me llamo Jeff
I refuse to take a drug
Safir most vape shops have liquid at 0% nicotine for the people who are enthusiasts or just like the flavor
You know the nicotine isn't the unhealthy part right? The rest of the stuff in e liquid is the concern. Nicotine itself has similar physiological effects as caffeine.
I'm a night squirl
i'm full blown nocturnal, i can sleep just fine when it's light, but i'm restless at night
i'm both a night owl and e-cig smoker. This video totaly runied my day haha
You forget what the word sleep means
Wait what did I just say
What's a "Sleep"
What does science say about nicotine free e-cigs?
I love it when "research" comes out about ecigs that puts up that high of numbers on a epidemiological study. Although i havent read the paper im confidant that no other factors like nutrition or general lifestyle where considered. Lets not forget that chd can be caused by many things. One of the bigest factors is blodclotting... There are some long term clinical studys that have been done on ecigs that do not show any significat difference in chd or strokes compared to non smokers. We have to wait at least another decade to be 100 % certain about such serious accusations.
Do you think being a ‘night owl’ was an evolutionary mutation for people watch at night. Like in packs when someone needs to be on the look out.
(Later them being milkmen who stay up most nights, delivery milk really early morning?)
i'm a happier, more productive, and much more energetic person when i refrain from my night owl tendencies
Works opposite for me. I have less energy, poor mood and am far less productive. And believe me I have tried to be a morning person, I really wish I could. Been that way since kindergarten.
@@CenturyOakWindStar I want to lurk around during the night, but everyone I know is an early bird
I am both a night owl and smoke marijuana oil... I guess I’ll die
plus I vape too so like yea! Lets Die!
Yes senpai
Meh, live free and happy and die young. Or be miserable for 100 years... Yeah, don't worry, be happy. :)
Omizuke don’t tell me what to do
I’m gonna have a toke and stay up all night. I love you all.
Hank is amazing I love him
nyctophile here. i love the night because its calm, quieter, and the majority of people are at the peak of kindness because they are asleep.
Personally I work best at night time. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Those are common side effects of nicotine, it has been long known to cause racing heartbeats and seizures so this isn't news.
Nicotine is a stimulant similar to caffeine, so it's like with people who drink a lot of tea/coffee. So yeah, you're pretty much right.
@@rubbers3 well it's a bit different since in large doses nicotine impairs motor coordination and can cause very strong vasoconstriction unparalleled by your common coffee drinker