There’s a relatively high cost in making a personal policy that results in not going to parties that result in being in bed at 1AM for it being possible to wake up at 7AM everyday which is needed on some days to be at the office early enough.
I’m not convinced that the benefit is worth that cost. Being strongly convinced would like be a requirement to be able to muster the willpower to try it out for 6 weeks.
If it’s the case that what multiple sleep specialists consider to be one of the most important sleep hygiene tips people commonly miss was without evidence that would seem strange to me. It might still be good advice, but a research failure if nobody investigates when that tip is useful.
They don’t have RTCs of just sleep timing in everyday settings; that’s not the same as not having evidence. Sleep specialists have a theory of why sleep timing is important, RTCs of sleep hygiene that show a moderate effect on insomnia, and personal experience working with patients. It’s unfortunate that we don’t have research in finer grained detail, but there is evidence supporting the doctor’s recommendations.
Does that mean it will work for you? Not necessarily. Based on the overall performance of sleep hygiene, I would expect at most a modest improvement in sleep quality. It’s your call whether poor sleep negatively impacts your life enough that a modest improvement in expectation is worth leaving parties early for a month. It’s totally fair if the information value isn’t worth that cost to you.
There’s a relatively high cost in making a personal policy that results in not going to parties that result in being in bed at 1AM for it being possible to wake up at 7AM everyday which is needed on some days to be at the office early enough.
I’m not convinced that the benefit is worth that cost. Being strongly convinced would like be a requirement to be able to muster the willpower to try it out for 6 weeks.
If it’s the case that what multiple sleep specialists consider to be one of the most important sleep hygiene tips people commonly miss was without evidence that would seem strange to me. It might still be good advice, but a research failure if nobody investigates when that tip is useful.
They don’t have RTCs of just sleep timing in everyday settings; that’s not the same as not having evidence. Sleep specialists have a theory of why sleep timing is important, RTCs of sleep hygiene that show a moderate effect on insomnia, and personal experience working with patients. It’s unfortunate that we don’t have research in finer grained detail, but there is evidence supporting the doctor’s recommendations.
Does that mean it will work for you? Not necessarily. Based on the overall performance of sleep hygiene, I would expect at most a modest improvement in sleep quality. It’s your call whether poor sleep negatively impacts your life enough that a modest improvement in expectation is worth leaving parties early for a month. It’s totally fair if the information value isn’t worth that cost to you.