A new study from Finland found that "night owls," or people who tend to stay up late, don't live as long as those who go to bed early and wake up early as well. 

<div class="block">A new study from Finland found that &quot;night owls,&quot; or people who tend to stay up late, don&#39;t live as long as those who go to bed early and wake up early as well. </div>

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Good2Know: Study Says 'Night Owls' Die Sooner Than Early Risers

Hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to wake up and chatter. I wake up with chatter time for a good to know headlines. Let's start with a warning for night owls. That is not us. Not a new study published today in the journal Cron Biology International looked at 24,000 twins in order to find out the effects of behavioral differences, like preferring the morning versus staying up late. The scientists found that people who strongly preferred the night were about 9% more likely to die early. It's not because staying up late is deadly. Night owls are more likely to develop bad habits like drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco compared to those who prefer to get up early. I used to be an 11 PM anchor and I used to go to bed at 34 AM because that's just the way the shift works. Now you're getting up at that time. Yeah. Now I get it. My alarm rings at that time. But I do, you do kind of go out more, you do these things more and I think you do develop those bad habits. What do you think? I think it's, it. Well as somebody who has been getting up at three o'clock in the morning for the last seven years or the argument also is you're having, um, you're more productive in the day. If you're getting up early, you're working out, you're eating better. You're doing all these, you're just more productive in the early parts of the day. Whereas if you're a night owl, your rem sleep is much, is changed completely. And as a result you're having, you're being much more productive later in the afternoon. The other part that they mention in this as well is people who are maybe staying up late are eating food closer to the time that they're going to bed. You know, most health researchers say you should only be eating 3 to 4 hours before you go to sleep. But the problem is, is then you're eating and that's just sitting in on you all day. So you're much likely to have higher chances of diabetes. Um You know, a bunch of other things as well. Um So 9% is pretty significant here, but I do miss that schedule. I, I do. Yes. As somebody who goes to bed at like 8 30 I would love to go to bed at midnight. Uh Meanwhile, when you roll up your sleeve for a flu shot this fall, you might wanna get your updated COVID booster. The FDA said yesterday that any updated vaccines should target one of the current circulating strains of Omicron's X B B lineage that's provide the most protection. Vaccine makers said that they should be able to deliver that updated vaccine by the fall. Now, according to the FDA, elderly and young Children who haven't been vaccinated yet, most at risk here. But that COVID boosters could become an annual routine for you just like your flu shot. The CDC will release those guidelines on who should get that updated shot. And when to later this year, I believe the expectation is supposed to be, you know, whereas we were getting it every six months to try to get the booster at the early stage of the pandemic. Now, it seems like if you've gotten a lot of those boosters, you may only need to get one shot per year. And likely the goal is, it seems like especially with this M R N A technology that they're using, they can always have it updated all the time based at least every year. So that way when the winter season comes and potentially you would have more of the worst COVID cases going up, you would have the most updated stream possible. And I guess the other goal would it becomes part of your flu shot that they integrate these things together. So that way every year you just get the flu and COVID shot together at the same time. I'm so glad you mentioned winter because you and I just reported, I think last week that Australia where it's winter there. Yeah, COVID cases and flu. In fact, the flu, uh, their flu season is the worst they've seen in six years. And of course, the US watches them very closely, but it's more likely than not, it's going to happen here as well. And if you don't get those shots, especially the immuno compromise, it could lead to more trouble. And we know they United States and the CDC looks at other countries to figure out what is going to plan ahead, what the flu and the COVID situation would look like down the road. Right and coming up, could you sit here for 19 hours? We'll show you are there, are there? That's not bad. All flight between the US and Australia. I think it'll even fit you. We'll be right back.