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8 Weird Ways That Resetting the Clock Can Affect Your Health

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Have you ever felt the ill effects of jet lag?

You’re tired, your brain feels in a fog, and you just can’t seem to pull it together.

Resetting clocks has very much the same effect, especially when it comes to setting clocks an hour ahead.

In essence, you “lose” that hour. As a result, the body has a difficult time adjusting to this loss of time.

It throws your whole schedule off-kilter. Today, we’re exploring other ways it could damage your health.

Resetting Clocks Could Negatively Impact Your Health

Many people feel we should end Daylight Saving Time altogether.

There are many studies that show that losing that hour is more than a mere inconvenience. For some people, it’s downright dangerous.

We’ve got the results of some of those studies here.

1. Increased Risk of Heart Attacks

The risk of heart attacks is always higher on Mondays. Most researchers postulate that this is due to the stress of starting a new work week in tandem with the change of the sleep-wake cycle after the weekend.

But there’s a noticeable spike in this risk on the Monday after the spring time change as evidenced by a comparison of hospital admissions from a database of non-federal Michigan hospitals. For four years in a row, the database examined admissions before the start of daylight saving time and the Monday immediately after.

The Monday after daylight saving time began was significantly higher all four years. It seems that lost hour of sleep adds to already stressful Mondays.

2. Higher Incidence of Workplace Injuries

This threat isn’t quite as imminent for those working in an office setting.

But for more physically demanding jobs like those in construction or manufacturing, for instance, this presents a threat.

A study of miners found that the week after daylight saving time began, workers arrived at work with 40 minutes less sleep and experienced 5.7% more workplace injuries. There were also 68% more workdays lost because of these injuries.

This comes as no big surprise – as operating or working around large machinery is best reserved for those who aren’t sleep deprived.

3. Reduction in the Efficiency of Sleep

It’s not just about how much you sleep, but how well you sleep.

A 2006 Finnish study took a group of people and monitored their sleep patterns for 10 days surrounding the transition to daylight saving time.

What did they find?

A decrease in sleep by a mere one hour cut a person’s sleep efficiency by 10%. They concluded that losing an hour compromised a person’s sleep by decreasing the number of hours he or she slept, as well as how efficiently they slept.

4. Increased Suicide Risk 

This one isn’t across the board either. But, it should serve as a red light to those with mental disorders.

2008 study in Australia studied a group of individuals with bipolar disorder. They found that disruptions in sleep patterns had repercussions for this population.

They also looked at reported Australian suicides from 1971 to 2001. 

They concluded that suicide rates increased in the weeks following daylight saving time, particularly among males.

5. Missed Treatments

Smart phones and devices have nearly taken over the world.

In the past, you would have to find every clock in your house to set it forward. But now, you may not even have to change a single clock. 

Since everything is connected, the devices you rely on to tell you the time will change themselves.

That’s not the case with things like commercial insulin pumps though.

Since they still aren’t GPS-enabled, they don’t possess internal time change mechanisms. So if someone who is diabetic relies on their insulin pump to dispense the insulin in a timely manner, they have to be sure that they manually change the time.  

If they don’t, it could wreak havoc on their blood sugar levels.

6. Increased Cluster Headaches

As humans, we are controlled by our own natural circadian rhythms. Nobody is exactly sure why, though it’s likely the result of our evolutionary need to survive.

At any rate, these rhythms control the release of certain hormones that affect hunger, moods and need to sleep. And throwing them off course, even by just one hour, can result in chronic and even debilitating pain.

Cluster headaches are among the most common pain experienced when circadian rhythms are disrupted. These are headaches that “cluster” within one side of your head and can last for days or even weeks.

7. More Car Accidents

Similar to the increase in job-related injuries, there do seem to be more car accidents right after we switch the clocks to daylight saving time.

In much the same way the miners above in #2 experience sleep deprivation and are prone to more accidents, so too are drivers when their circadian rhythms are altered.

Interestingly, the incidence of car accidents seems to go down when we end daylight saving time in the fall though. Again, the argument being that gaining time (and an hour of sleep) is always easier than losing it.

8. Inability to Adjust to New Time

According to a group of German researchers, artificially altering our circadian rhythms is just plain bad news. Particularly when it comes to “springing” forward with our clocks.

Lead researcher of the group, Till Roenneberg contends that simply changing the clock doesn’t fool our bodies into abiding by the new time. That’s because changing the clocks doesn’t actually change anything related to the sun. 

Roenneberg holds steady to the idea that each of us is guided by our biological clocks. Applying a social construct to regular clocks does not translate to that biological clock. And some people just never get adapted to the new change – feeling tired and out of sorts all the time.

Similar to the incidences of car accidents increasing in spring and decreasing in the fall, the researchers also found that the body has no trouble adjusting to the gaining of an hour. 

So when it comes to potential health issues, it just doesn’t seem to make sense to keep moving our clocks back and forth. Does it?

What Do You Think?

Do you find that resetting clocks in the spring negatively impacts you? Or are you just cruising through life and going with the flow?

Feel free to comment below.

And for more weird health articles that’ll keep your brain ticking, keep checking back with us!

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Source: https://weirdomatic.com/8-weird-ways-that-resetting-the-clock-can-affect-your-health.html


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