Sleep during the day is throwing your genes off

A new study says that taking a nap, or sleeping during the day, disrupts about one third of your genes.

The study will be published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Sleep Research Centre found that sleeping at unnatural hours,in the middle of the day or in the afternoon, runs a risk of disrupting genes that control the body's daily functions, according to BBC News.

The research consisted of putting 22 healthy and young volunteers to sleep in a dimly lit room for three days. After the three day experiment only 1 percent of the 1,400 genes that were assessed were functioning normally.

The research even said that sleeping during the day disrupts your genes more than not getting enough sleep, according to HealthDay. If the sleep patterns are not rhythmic and genes are disrupted it could mean you won't be able to live what most consider a normal life.

"If these are not rhythmic, then you can easily imagine that, during the nighttime, you have this machinery up and running without need," Frank Sheer, a neuroscientist, said. "During the daytime, when you actually do need it, it's only running half speed."