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Like it or not, science supports your teenage son's love for the "postpone" alarm clock button

2019-10-18T08:53:37.525Z


The teenagers' biological clock has changed, Dr. Mary Carskadon, director of the Sleep and Chronobiology Research Laboratory at EP Bradley Hospital, told CNN. That means qu ...


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(CNN) - In the battle between the teenage hobby to push the button to postpone the alarm clock and parents' desire to ride them to a school bus early in the morning, experts say science is increasingly on the side of postpone.

The teenagers' biological clock has changed, Dr. Mary Carskadon, director of the Sleep and Chronobiology Research Laboratory at EP Bradley Hospital, told CNN. That means that everything influenced by the circadian time process, including sleep, wakefulness and eating patterns, is set forth below.

And if teenagers have trouble falling asleep naturally at an early hour and don't get the recommended eight and a half hours or nine hours of sleep, ask them to be awake, ready and in a classroom at 7:30 a.m. It can wreak havoc on their systems, Carskadon said.

Students in a state have received a break in relation to the sadness of the morning. The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, signed legislation on Sunday that delays start times for middle and high schools to align with the circadian rhythms of teenagers. It is a movement that sleep experts expect more school districts to follow.

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That is especially because research suggests that when teenagers start later in the morning, they can do a better job on many parents' priority lists such as:

Pay attention and do your homework

Four out of five public middle and high schools in the US UU. They begin before 8:30 am, the first recommended hour for teenagers, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Carskadon says that the negative consequences of waking up early in academic performance are obvious: students have more trouble concentrating in class and withholding information, feel tired during the day, have more absences and delays and have a hard time doing their homework and Read well in class.

There is not enough time to sleep what they need between when their clocks tell them to go to sleep and when they need to be in class, she says. And to make matters worse, for many teenagers, their bodies tell them that it is still time to go to bed when they try to pay attention in class.

"Many children will simply be asleep in the first period because their brains are almost literally on the pillow and not yet in the classroom," he said.

Avoid junk food

When students are out of their regular sleep cycle, they often also lose their ideal feeding cycle, Carskadon said. Since the biological clock influences human food, deviating from the circadian rhythm could mean eating too much or choosing the wrong food at the wrong times, he said.

Who among us is looking for a healthy snack when we are tired and awake when we are not supposed to be? Asked Stacy Simera, a licensed social worker who chairs the Ohio Adolescent Health Partnership sleep committee.

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That interruption not only means worse nutrition, but it can also lead to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, Carskadon said.

Not get in trouble

When it comes to impulse control, Carskadon and his colleagues say teenagers already have the accelerator pressed without brakes. This is because the emotional side of the brain is well developed in those years, but it does not have a very strong link with the decision-making side.

And neuroimaging studies showed that the link is even weaker in teenagers who don't get enough sleep. The result may be problems controlling their impulses and increasingly participating in risky behaviors such as not wearing a helmet, driving under the influence of substances and abusing them, Carskadon said.

Stay happy and safe

From a physical health perspective, teenagers who get enough sleep also suffer fewer car accidents and sports injuries, Simera said.

She says that teenagers fall asleep more easily and get a dream of the best quality from 11 pm to 8 am, the ideal time. And research shows that moving away from that ideal time and sleeping less correlates with depression, anxiety and suicide, he said.

One study found that for every additional hour of sleep teenagers get, the risk of suicide decreases by 11%.

OK, so why don't you go to bed before?

In order not to go against their biological clock, health professionals say teenagers can do things like go to sleep at the same time, turn off devices an hour before bedtime, give up caffeine in the afternoon and get light bright in the morning (but not at night), among other things.

But all that is easier said than done.

"Of all those things, show me an adult who is capable of doing them," Carskadon said. "It imposes a great burden on teenagers without much support to help them implement those changes."

And that burden has a disproportionate effect on students who are already disadvantaged by social factors such as socioeconomic status and family structure.

Some students may be taken to school by a family member and have adults monitor when they go to bed and wake up, he said, and if they fall asleep (or would like to do so) they have support to make sure they can eventually get to school.

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But teenagers whose parents work long hours or don't have the resources to take them to school, often wake up earlier to catch a bus and lose whole days of education if they don't.

"We know that the loss of sleep hurts all adolescents, but it will hurt even more the adolescent with low socioeconomic status," said Simera.

And for those who say that early start times prepare students for the real world of mandatory work hours, Simera says that the status quo is not helping them that way either.

"If we want to prepare children for the real world, let them enter the real world with reduced rates of depression, reduced rates of diabetes, with fewer head injuries from car accidents or sports injuries," he said.

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Source: cnnespanol

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