All health experts agree that sleep is medicine. Sound sleep can heal you from the inside and optimise your body for better performance for the following day.
In India, parents do their best to inculcate the habit of going to bed early and rising early in children, but a new research by the Imperial College of London showed that waking up later may do you more good than getting up at the crack of dawn.
Chronotypes are genetically determined and cannot be altered. The night owl chronotype prefers going to bed late and waking up late, while the lark chronotype goes to bed and gets up early.
In today's day and age, people have different sleep schedules because of professional commitments or lifestyle patterns.
But, it has been observed that in a lot of cases, night owls perform better than those who push themselves to wake up early regardless of their genetic disposition.
It is important to understand your chronotype and align your sleeping habits accordingly to get optimum performance
Before generalising what a study comes out with, it is important to read the fine print and understand the nuances associated with it.