The Health Benefits Of Being A Night Owl

Better Mental Alertness

Night owls have better mental alertness in the sense that they have greater mental stamina. In 2009, a scientific journal published a study conducted at Belgium’s University of Liege. The researchers worked with sixteen morning people and fifteen night owls, who displayed a four-hour difference in their habits. The morning people got up at around 7 A.M. and went to bed at around 11 P.M., while the night owls got up at 11 A.M. and went to bed at around 3 A.M. The researchers administered tests 1.5 hours and 10.5 hours after their subjects had awoken. The scientists hooked their subjects up to machines that measured their brain activity while they took tests that measured their reaction time and ability to concentrate. Both groups were equally alert 1.5 hours after waking up, but the night owls were significantly more alert than the morning people were 10.5 hours after waking.

Keep reading to reveal the physical strength only a night owl possesses.