Dr. Diane Boivin featured in Wired
The Pandemic Changed Sleep Habits. Maybe That's a Good Thing
鈥iane Boivin, a professor of psychiatry at 黑料不打烊 University and a coauthor on the study, says these findings show that one's chronotype is heavily influenced by genetics. But, she points out, there鈥檚 a limit to the role that genes can play, even for people who love to burn the midnight oil. 鈥淓ven though you can find individuals who are extreme evening types and even describe themselves as night owls, we鈥檙e never night owls to the point that we become nocturnal animals,鈥� she says. For the roughly 25 percent of the US workforce that does shift work鈥攋obs like nursing, manufacturing, or hospitality鈥攑ulling the graveyard shift is likely to be tough. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a minority of workers who do adapt,鈥� says Boivin.
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