Daylight Savings Time and your sleep pattern
As if the past year hasn't done enough to throw our sleep patterns out of whack, this Sunday is when we throw the annual monkey wrench into the schedule: Daylight Saving Time. Every March we "spring ahead" which is a nice way of saying we lose an hour of sleep. Not only that, but changing the light and dark patterns can throw off our circadian rhythm, the 24-hour cycle that regulates our sleep which is based on light. Research has shown that the average person receives about 40 minutes less sleep the Monday after the switch. Nothing is better than starting the week even more tired than normal, right? Some of us adjust after a day or two, but there...
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