Can a night owl become an early bird?

As a result, I went through cycles of fighting my natural rhythm. I would wake up at 5:30 a.m. and go out for a brisk run, make myself a healthy breakfast, and get ahead on the day’s work. These days made me feel like a rockstar, but they also left me drained. I was still unable to settle down early in the evenings and would soon become sleep deprived. My early riser routine would last a week at best before I returned to my natural night owl tendencies. I wondered why it was that I couldn’t seem to reset my biological rhythm when I was following every piece of advice I could find. I was working out first thing in the morning. I was drinking lemon water and getting plenty of light in my face when I woke up. I forced myself into bed when I wasn’t tired. Yet, by midday, I was struggling to keep my eyes open, and when the sun went down my mind woke up, making it difficult to adhere to my early bedtime. It turns out, I may be out of luck when it comes to being a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed morning person. Extreme morningness or eveningness is genetically predetermined, making it incredibly difficult for a night owl to convert to a lark or vice versa. While there are a number of genes at play when it comes to determining the way your biological "clock" is wound, the Period 3 gene in particular dictates up to 52 percent of a person’s morning or evening preference. You can fight it all you want, but ultimately, your body’s rhythm is already decided for you.