Efforts are underway to 'lock the clock' and stick with one time all year long. Doctors say it shouldn't be DST.
” — the effort to stop the country from moving in and out of daylight saving time, which is currently in place from mid-March until early November.to keep DST in place through the fall of 2021, noting the nation “could use a little more sunshine” after months of staying inside amid the coronavirus crisis.
There is no biological need for humans to change the time twice a year, though the health impact can be concerning, sleep experts said. “There is no great reason to switch back and forth… it is disruptive in a lot of different ways,” Dr. Meir Kryger, a sleep researcher and professor at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, told TODAY.
“We have evidence accumulating that it’s dangerous to do this,” added Dr. Charles Czeisler, chief of the division of sleep medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and professor at Harvard Medical School., when people face a greater risk of heart attack and stroke in the days after losing one hour of sleep. There are also more car accidents, medical errors and hospital admissions.
The change causes a phase shift of our circadian rhythm — the body’s internal clock — and exacerbates the chronic sleep deficiency Americans already experience.“Many people in our society are living on the edge in terms of the amount of sleep that they’re getting,” Czeisler said., too, potentially increasing symptoms of depression in people whose depression is linked to darkness, Kryger said.
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