Researchers recommend getting some extra sleep on the weekend to pay off your ‘sleep debt’. But if you want to avoid Mondayitus, experts recommend going to bed early instead of staying up late and sleeping in on the weekend.
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00:00 It's been a long week, so you decide to treat yourself to a much-needed weekend sleep-in.
00:05 But is a weekend sleep catch-up a good idea?
00:13 The danger in trying to recover your lost sleep by sleeping in later on the weekend,
00:21 particularly if you stay up later on Friday and Saturday nights, what this does is delay
00:29 your body clock.
00:30 What we know as the Monday morning blues is partly explained by a lot of people who don't
00:37 get adequate sleep on Sunday night, and they're just sleep-deprived to some extent.
00:42 At least one night on the weekend, help to pay that back by going to bed a bit earlier.
00:48 Because if you go to bed a little bit earlier and then sleep in a little bit later, you'll
00:54 repay that debt without shifting the timing of your body clock.
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