Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Kate Hawkesby: Sleep study shows us early birds are doing the right thing

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I’ve received the best news ever this week, another sleep study. I love sleep studies because no one gets less sleep than shift workers.We sleep at weird hours; we wake at weird hours, those of us who are up early for other reasons like kids sport, or gym classes or being woken by babies.I mean, we all want to know the deal on sleep don’t we?So according to a new study by an international psychiatry journal, scientists now say getting to bed earlier, and getting up earlier, can dramatically reduce your risk of depression.  The study investigated the relationship between sleep timing and mood and found that ‘even one hour earlier sleep timing is associated with significantly lower risk of depression,’ according to one report.So, no more late nights.To delve into this they needed to look at which came first; ‘whether staying up late led to depressive symptoms or whether depressive symptoms led to staying up late.’  According to this report, they “found ‘firm’ evidence it's the time that people go to bed that in