Going to bed after this time could lead to poorer mental health, a Stanford study finds

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A Stanford University study found that going to bed after 1:00 a.m. could lead to mental health issues. Study co-author Dr. Jamie Zeitzer and sleep expert Dr. Wendy Troxel discuss healthy sleep habits.

Night owls might want to start turning in earlier. A recent study by Stanford University, published in the journal Psychiatry Research, found that going to bed after 1:00 a.m. could lead to mental health issues. Researchers analyzed the data of more than 73,000 adults in the U.K., looking into their chronotype and actual sleep timing.

Study co-author Jamie Zeitzer, Ph.D., a professor at Stanford University's department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in California, said he was surprised by the results. 'They were not what we expected at all,' he wrote in an email to Fox News Digital. 'We spent more than a year trying to disprove our findings, but could not find an alternate explanation.

Dr. Wendy Troxel, a Utah-based sleep expert who was not involved in the study, agreed that the findings are 'very interesting' – particularly the fact that going to bed later is associated with poorer mental health regardless of one's natural tendency. 'These findings underscore that sleep health is a multidimensional state,' Troxel said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

 

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