Daylight Savings Time and our Health

Are you having issues with the Daylight Savings time changeover?  If so, check out this episode to discover some tips to help better manage.

Research:
Sleep disturbances: 

Kantermann, T., Juda, M., Merrow, M., & Roenneberg, T. (2007). The human circadian clock's seasonal adjustment is disrupted by daylight saving time. Current Biology, 17(22), 1996-2000. 

Roenneberg, T., Wirz-Justice, A., & Merrow, M. (2003). Life between clocks: daily temporal patterns of human chronotypes. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 18(1), 80-90. 

 Mood changes: 

Kantermann, T., & Roenneberg, T. (2007). Is light-at-night a health risk factor or a health risk predictor?. Chronobiology International, 24(6), 1077-1088. 

Terman, M., & Terman, J. S. (2001). Light therapy for seasonal and nonseasonal depression: efficacy, protocol, safety, and side effects. CNS spectrums, 6(3), 223-236. 

 Increased risk of heart attacks and strokes:

Janszky, I., & Ljung, R. (2008). Shifts to and from daylight saving time and incidence of myocardial infarction. New England Journal of Medicine, 359(18), 1966-1968. 

Manfredini, R., Boari, B., Smolensky, M. H., Salmi, R., la Cecilia, O., Maria Malagoni, A., ... & Portaluppi, F. (2016). Daylight saving time and myocardial infarction: should we be worried? A review of the evidence. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 20(10), 2004-2012.

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/why-daylight-saving-time-could-increase-your-heart-attack-risk

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2018/10/26/can-daylight-saving-time-hurt-the-heart-prepare-now-for-spring

Decreased work performance: 

Barnes, C. M., Drake, C. L., & Prior, L. (2015). Daylight saving time, sleep, and work injuries. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 57(7), e73-e77. 

Barger, L. K., Wright Jr, K. P., & O'Brien, C. S. (2021). Daylight saving time: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine position statement. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 17(4), 779-780.

https://www.concentra.com/resource-center/articles/watch-out-for-work-injury-spikes-after-daylight-saving-time/#:~:text=Studies%20reveal%20a%20correlation%20between,days%20following%20daylight%20saving%20time.

Increased traffic accidents: 

Coren, S. (1996). Daylight savings time and traffic accidents. New England Journal of Medicine, 334(14), 924-925. 

Lahti, T. A., & Leppämäki, S. J. (2017). Daylight saving time transitions and road traffic accidents. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 54, 139-145. 

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