eli5: Why sleeping late and waking up late is worse than sleeping early and wake up early

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Lets say I sleep at 1am and wake up at 9am, why my body reacts negatively compared to sleep at 9 pm and wake up at 4 am. Both are 8 hours of sleeping time. How can my body knows it is past 12pm and decides to give me a bad day because of it.

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It kind of isn’t, for the most part.

It affects the amount of sunlight you can take in normally, and a vast majority of serious services are only available during morning and early afternoon, so you may need to disturb your sleep schedule to go to the bank if you tend to sleep during banking hours, but as a general rule, if you take care of your health, make sure to get all the vitamin C you may need, and your sleep schedule is consistent, there aren’t that many serious studies that show a causal link between sleeping late and being in bad shape.

There may be a corellation with depression, but it’s likely more that depression affects your sleep schedule, than the other way around.

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