CAN YOU RETRAIN YOUR BODY CLOCK?
As soon as the sun rises, I hide under my duvet. If I must emerge, I put the kettle in the fridge and wear jumpers inside out. At night, I could run a marathon and write a novel…it wouldn’t be good, but it would get done. Like one in four of us, I’m a night person. An owl, with fewer feathers.
When I worked from home, this wasn’t a problem. On weekdays, I’d write in the evenings, undistracted by e-mails. On weekends, I’d be the last person at a party. But this year, I got an office job—9.30am to 6pm—and it was miserable. So, when I read about a regime that could turn me into a morning person*, I wanted in.
The plan, devised by experts at the universities of Birmingham and Surrey, UK, and Monash University, Australia, aimed to bring people’s body clocks forward by two hours. After change the habit of a lifetime? It was time to find out…
