Early rising: found a good reason to get up an hour earlier

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Many people do not like to get up early, preferring to stay up until midnight, and then go to sleep almost before noon - and they are absolutely useless, doctors warn. Getting up early has a lot of health benefits.

A genetic study of 840 people, conducted by the University of Colorado in Boulder, the Broad Institute and Harvard University in the US, showed that those who wake up an hour earlier (while maintaining the same amount of time spent on sleep) have a reduced risk of depression.

There are several possible reasons for this. For those who get up early, it is usually easier to synchronize their "clock" with the schedule of work and rest. While people who sleep late and get up late often struggle to adjust to these "social hours". In addition, the impact of light, which people - "larks" are exposed to from early in the morning, can also improve the emotional state, the researchers explain.

Kate Bridel, a leading sleep expert and founder of Sleep HQ, a Hong Kong-based sleep consultancy, points out that maintaining a regular sleep schedule is very important. "Don't deprive yourself of sleep. Its deficiency is associated with a bad mood and the risk of depression," she warns.