Daylight Saving Time will take effect early Sunday morning, which could cause a disruption of your internal clock.
2 a.m. Saturday night going into Sunday, folks will be "springing forward" and losing an hour of much-needed sleep in the process, TIME reported on Friday.
Some past studies have shown the potentially detrimental health effects that are prevalent during Daylight Saving time changes.
According to TIME, certain probes have demonstrated a slight spike in the number of heart attacks in the days following daylight saving. This could be due to a number of factors, but most medical officials wager the hour of sleep lost creates a rise in stress hormones, which keeps people awake for longer periods of time.
Medical officials have said that the body usually adjusts itself to the time change naturally, much like it does in instances of jet lag.
According to President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Dr. Safwan Badr, daylight saving shouldn't lead to very many drastic changes.
"One hour variation is not a big deal," Badr, who is also the chief of pulmonary, sleep medicine and critical care at Wayne State University, told TIME. "It's not a major factor if you have healthy sleep habits; you have enough physiological reserve to make the adjustment."
Losing that precious 60 minutes of shut-eye shouldn't cause a downturn in overall health, so here are a few ways to ease yourself into the transition on Sunday.
Medical officials suggest that, beginning Friday, Americans go to sleep around 15 or 20 minutes earlier than they usually would every evening. Come Sunday morning, the body will be a little more used to sleeping on a shifted schedule, not to mention relaex.
TIME suggested citizens try staying outdoors on Sunday so that their internal clocks can naturally adjust to the added hour of sunlight.
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