How Does The Schedule Change Affect Our Health?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Although the time change we make twice a year is supposed to save energy, it has supporters and detractors, because it affects our health.

If you feel tired these days, some discomfort, sleep disturbances, bad mood and even a little depression, you are not the only one. The schedule change can even affect our cardiovascular system.

It has been shown in countless studies that an hour difference in our schedules makes a huge difference in certain aspects of our day to day, especially in the change of autumn schedule. You know why?

In the fall, turning the clock back one hour suddenly causes us to lose an hour of light and that affects our biological clock and definitely worsens our mood psychologically.

Light is responsible for regulating the way the body produces melatonin, which in turn regulates sleep cycles and our emotional state.

So just as people who work at night suffer from numerous disorders or the tiredness of the effect of jetlag after flying that lasts for several days, so we feel somehow when changing the schedule.

In some people more sensitive to it, mood disorders can last up to months. In English, it is known by its initials as SAD or seasonal affective disorder, also known as winter blues.

In a study done in Denmark, the change from fall time to increases the diagnoses of depression by more than ten by the way.

What is recommended these days when we update clocks a second time in a year?

Experts advise enjoying the maximum during the day in natural light, sunbathing, strolling outdoors with our loved ones … Tricks for our body to regulate melatonin again.

And one last tip: do not read on your cell phone before sleeping, because its blue light confuses our brain and it will cost you much more to fall asleep.