Can't get up in the morning when you're in great shape at night? Or the opposite, are you more the type to be on the job as soon as the alarm clock rings but unable to keep your eyes open after a certain hour in the evening? Don't panic, it's normal. It's even genetic. There are several profiles that influence our sleep needs and our activities. Everyone is therefore not equal when it comes to sleep and everyone has their natural rhythm, which is more or less adapted to life in society. This is explained by Claire Leconte, researcher in chronobiology, in the magazine L'Obs.
Whether we work in the morning or in the evening, we all have a chronotype that changes our sleep needs. We would therefore be programmed from birth to be morning or evening, whatever we do and whatever our pace of life or our habits. There would be around 25% of people who would be clearly morning people and another quarter who would be evening people. For the rest, it's the lucky little guys who are operational and in a good mood from morning to night, whatever time the alarm clock rings or when they can finally go to bed.
The chronobiologist encourages you to respect your biological clock and your natural rhythm. It is still necessary to know in which category we are really placed... To determine it, there is a questionnaire developed by researchers in 1976 which consists of 19 questions on our habits and which makes it possible to discover what is our chronotype. Another injustice that is also linked to our genes:the amount of sleep we need. Some will do very well with 6 hours of sleep while others are ineffective without their 8 hours of sleep. We can obviously try to have a lifestyle that best suits our profile, but we are condemned to adapt to all the constraints of professional and/or family life, even if our chronotype tells us otherwise. So we do our best and listen to our internal clock. Even if obviously, telling your boss that you're arriving at 11 a.m. to "respect your biological clock", it could go wrong...
