Early rising may be bad for health

[Guest guest]

Dear Learned Vaidyas, I found the below pasted news item and I seek your

valuable opinions on this subject.

 

Early rising may be bad for health - DAWN - International; September 09, 2007

 

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September 09, 2007 Sunday Sha'aban 26, 1428

 

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Early rising may be bad for health

 

ARE you a habitual early riser? You might be at a higher risk of heart disease.

Junking the age old mantra that professed waking up early as good for health,

a study conducted by Japanese researchers has found that people who regularly

wake up before 5 am faced an added risk of developing heart disease. They

were found to be also at higher risk of developing high blood

pressure/hypertension and stroke.

 

Announcing the finding at the recently concluded Congress of the World

Federation of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Societies in Cairns, Australia,

Japanese

physician Mayuko Kadono said his subjects, who woke up before 5 am were 1.7

times more prone to suffering from high BP/hypertension. A two-time increase

in the chance of developing hardening of the arteries was also noticed when

those in the study woke up regularly at 5 am.

 

Kadono used 3,017 healthy adults between the ages of 23 and 90 years to study

the relationship between time of getting up in the morning and the frequency

of developing health problems.

 

" Rising early to go to work or exercise might not be beneficial to health, but

rather a risk for vascular diseases, " said an abstract of the study.

 

Dr V Mohan Kumar, vice-president of the World Federation of Sleep Research and

Sleep Medicine Societies, told this newspaper that an adult needs a minimum

of six-eight hours of sleep everyday. " People who go to sleep at 10 pm and wake

up at 5 am or later should face no problems. Some people wake up late.

If those who like to sleep a little more are forced to wake up at 5 am everyday,

it naturally leads to stress in the heart causing complications, " Dr Kumar,

a former HOD of the department of physiology at AIIMS, said.

 

-Dawn/The Times of India News Service

[Guest guest]

did they consider also the hour the subjects went to sleep, and how many hours

they sleep every night?

as far as i know, the best quality sleep is from 22 to 24h. so, if someone goes

to bed at 22, he will wake up before 5, perfectly rested. but if that person

goes to bed at 1 and gets up at 5, without using other methods to supply mental

energy (like maditation, pranayama) after a while he will get ill.

there are other things to consider like the rithms of nature (there r hours when

a dosha has a strong influence) and the prakriti and vikriti of that person, so

we cannot make a general rule.

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I found the below pasted news item and I seek your valuable opinions on this

subject.

Early rising may be bad for health.

[Guest guest]

I agree here.

I find that if aperson goes to bed at ten they can even get up at three very

refreshed.

The body needs to get rid of toxins and this is done between 10 - 2 if one is

awake during these hours they will eat and corupt this cleansing and refreshing

process and will eventually become depleted and exhausted.

 

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did they consider also the hour the subjects went to

sleep, and how many hours they sleep every night?

as far as i know, the best quality sleep is from 22 to 24h.

[Guest guest]

I don't believe it! My natural sleep patterns just

put me to bed by 9 and up at 5. Thats what I will do

naturally if nothing else gets in my way. And you

know what? People are always asking me how I stay so

energetic and calm and upbeat. Maybe its because I

get a good nights sleep every night.

From everything I've read about this study it doesn't

take into accout how much sleep people got. I think

the amount of sleep is the key to good health more

than anything else. When I was deployed, I knew I had

to get up at 5 am every morning for company workouts,

so I made sure I was in bed and asleep by 9, to ensure

I got 8 hours of sleep (I believe between 7 and 9 is

best for most everyone, but 8 seems to be my magic

number). The other girls in my room would go to bed

much later, sometimes midnight or 1 in the morning,

and then they would be like zombies the whole next

day. They'd say they would make up for it on their

days off, and proceeded to sleep 13 or 14 hours on

those days, but when they awoke from that they were

all the worse for it. They kept asking me, " whats

your secret? how do you keep going like you do? " and

I said " I get 8 hours of sleep every night, and I

don't sleep during the daylight hours " and then they

would shake their heads and say " No, that can't be it.

You must be doing something else. "

Not really. In fact, my life was unhealthier than

some of theirs in almost every other reguard. I

didn't work out as much, I smoked and I drank a lot.

But those 8 hours of sleep a night worked miracles.

And I was still getting up early every morning.

Explain that, Japanese scientists!