Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- 1. High school students between the age of 14-19 years
- 2. have typically insufficient sleep, defined by ≤ 7 hours per night on school days
- 3. BMI 5th-84th percentile for age and sex
- 4. habitually sedentary (\< 3 hours of regular physical activity per week)
- 5. Tanner stage 4 or 5, based on breast development for girls and testicular size for boys.
Exclusion Criteria:
- 1. Any medications that affect IR or sleep (e.g., metformin, stimulants, atypical antipsychotics, current use of oral steroids)
- 2. regular use of melatonin or other sleep aids
- 3. a prior diagnosis of a sleep disorder (e.g. insomnia, delayed sleep phase syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea)
- 4. Type 2 diabetes or prediabetes
- 5. IQ\<70 or severe mental illness that may impact sleep or ability to consent/assent (e.g., schizophrenia, psychotic episodes)
- 6. teens not enrolled in a traditional high school academic program (e.g., home school students)
- 7. schedules that would preclude participants from adhering to the sleep manipulation (e.g. night shift employment)
- 8. travel across more than two time zones in the 2 weeks prior to the study.
Ages Eligible for Study:
14 Years to 19 Years (CHILD, ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Yes