Dr. Paul
Kelley, a leading researcher at Oxford University, has recently discovered that
the most common form of modern day torture is actually having to wake up and
start work before 10 o’clock in the morning, something that affects an enormous
amount of us.
Our bodies run on biological timers, known as our
Circadian Rhythm. This is our body clock if you like, and it is a genetically
pre-programmed cycle which regulates our brain activity, energy levels, hormone
production and perception of time. By starting work before 10 am every day, we
are scientifically torturing ourselves through unnaturally interfering with our
Circadian Rhythm, thus throwing many aspects of our health out of balance.
Kelley says:
“We cannot
change our 24-hour rhythms. You cannot learn to get up at a certain time…your
liver and your heart have different patterns and you’re asking them to shift
two or three hours.”
How Did This
Happen?
Introduced in the early 20th century, the 8 hour
working day was designed around the maximisation of 24/7 factory productivity,
not taking into account the natural human body clock. However, our ancient
bodies evolved around the daily cycle of sunlight, not these modern day
strategies of business and commerce! Dr Paul Kelley, speaking at the British
Science Festival says:
“We’ve got a
sleep deprived society” and “This is an international issue. Everybody is
suffering and they don’t have to.”
His idea was to move the start time of a school in
Britain from 8.30 am to 10.00 am. Upon testing this theory at a chosen school,
after a certain amount of time and a further wave of exams, he wasn’t surprised
to see that the attendance levels had improved along with the general
productivity of the school – and most importantly the students’ grades were up
drastically.
If we were to transfer this idea into other sectors of
society just think of the improvements. Instead of overtired, overworked,
coffee intoxicated zombies working in the hours of the day when they should be
sleeping, we would have a naturally productive, fully fledged, focused society
of useful, happy people. The companies who are forcing their workers to start
before 10 am are contributing to serious emotional and physical stresses felt
by their employees and encouraging longer term adverse health risks as a result
of these strict, unhealthy working patterns. These patterns could be a huge
reason as to why the average American consumers over 3 cups of coffee every
single day to try and keep themselves as alert as they possibly can. To put
that into perspective, that’s 40 billion dollars a year – on coffee!
Source :
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