SCIENCE: NOTHING GOOD HAPPENS AFTER MIDNIGHT

Researchers from Massachusetts General Research Institute say there may be scientific evidence that humans should not stay up past midnight. The team claims that the human brain is not meant to be awake after midnight – that staying up late only leads to more impulsive behavior and high-risk decisions, such as drinking, overeating, gambling, or criminal activity. “The basic idea is that from an evolutionary standpoint, your internal biological circadian clock is tuned towards processes that promote sleep, not wakefulness, after midnight,” according to senior author Dr. Elizabeth Klerman, an investigator in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, who says that our circadian rhythms change over the course of a 24-hour day. Simply put, people look at things one way during the day and in a completely different way at night, and there’s fairly good evidence that their brain is not functioning as well at night as it does during the day. Klerman says, “My plea is for more research to look at that, because their health and safety, as well as that of others, is affected.”
* Thanks… mom.
* I’d plead for more research, too, if that’s how I made a living.
* Nothing good happens after midnight, although everything GREAT does happen after midnight.
* I get the feeling the decision to publish this research was made after midnight.