Get Healthy Now with Denise Thomson Daylight Savings Time

Good morning and welcome to Get Healthy Now. It's been 4 days since we switched to Daylight Savings Time here in CA, which will end Sunday, November 7, 2021.

How does it affect you? Body, mind, mood, health? I am Denise Thomson, a health agent, I am affected.

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Daylight Savings Time Kills, March 18, 2021 by Thomas Knapp article

Daylight Saving Time in the United States

Daylight saving time in the United States is the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour when there is longer daylight during day, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Most areas of the United States and Canada observe daylight saving time, the exceptions being Arizona, Hawaii, and the overseas territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established the system of uniform daylight saving time throughout the US.

7 Ways Daylight Saving Time Can Affect Your Health:

An hour of lost sleep and an out-of-whack circadian rhythm could affect your fertility, heart health, mood, and more.

1. IVF success rates drop in March

2. Heart attacks spike after the spring time change.

3. Stroke rates rise when DST starts and ends

4. Fatigue and "cyberloafing" are rampant

5. Teens are especially exhausted

6. Cluster headaches may strike

7. Depression diagnoses rise in the fall

How to prepare for the time change: every night bedtime 10 min earlier, eating healthy, hydrating, exercising, relaxing before going to bed, no blue lights 1 hr before bedtime. Don't hit that snooze button. Count 5,4,3,2,1 then get up.

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Until next week, stay happy, healthy and empowered.