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Is ‘Springing Forward’ Bad For Your Health?
An expert explains why it's so hard to adjust to daylight saving time and offers tips for springing forward.
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who love daylight saving time, and those who don’t.
University of California, Davis Health sleep medicine expert Heinrich Gompf is not a big fan of the clock change—or at least not the way we currently do it in the United States.
In this episode of the podcast Unfold, he explains why it’s so darn difficult for our bodies to adjust to the time change (the suprachiasmatic nucleus!) and offers tips to help you prepare and adapt when we do spring forward:
You can find the transcript for this podcast here.
Source: UC Davis
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