Helping your body adjust to time change
Posted : Mar 12, 2010 4:58 PM
Updated: Mar 12, 2010 7:36 PM
You can avoid body shock when it is time to change the clock forward for daylight saving. For a lot of people, that one hour forward is more difficult to adjust to than setting the clock back in the fall.
Medical specialists who help people with sleep orders say the lost hour can put you in a funk. Misty Terry a Technician with Delta Waves Sleep Disorder and Research Centers says, "If you don't get enough sleep and if you're tired. You're going to be irritable, you're going to be grumpy and you're going to get depressed."
"Start waking up a couple of ten minutes early, kind of easing into it. It's not going to be such a shock," advises Terry. Avoiding naps the day before the clock change will help you deal better with it. Exercise also contributes to a better sleep cycle. Then in the mornings following the clock change consider sitting by a window for breakfast to signal your body that it is light and time to wake up.
kofku at Mar 13th 2010 11:47 AM
how about not doing it at all? It has out lived the reason it was used for. only two states are smart enough not to use it.