And unless laws change and golf-club manufacturers, gas companies, and the leisure industry stop lobbying in support of DST, people will continue to face these jarring transitions twice a year. (This past spring, the Senate passed a law mandating permanent DST, a move sleep scientists and other health groups oppose. Thankfully, studies have shown that the human circadian rhythm, a 24-hour cycle that’s governed by your body’s internal clock, adjusts more easily to the fall transition than the one in the spring. Here are five tips to help ease the shift. Stay up laterĪccording to Chris Winter, MD, author of The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How to Fix It, the transition in the fall is like “a trip west to Vegas, rather than the more painful return to the east.” If you don’t want to fall asleep an hour earlier post-DST, staying up a bit later a day or two before the time shift can help. If that’s difficult, he recommends implementing exercise later in the day to help rejuvenate you studies show that working out between 7 p.m. Even though experts usually advise against exposure to blue light at night (it interferes with the body’s circadian rhythm), Winter says this is actually a great time to seek it out. So don’t feel too bad about using your phone, turning on screens, or blaring the lights-it’s all for the good of your sleep.
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