Changing the clocks to daylight saving time may increase the risk of sleep problems and circadian rhythm disruption. This is associated with an increased risk of diabetes, obesity and heart disease. Talk about this post said Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University (USA) Beth Ann Malou.
Researchers are increasingly finding that switching clocks to daylight saving time is associated with serious negative public health consequences, including an increase in heart attacks and an increased risk of sleep problems in young people, Malow said.
According to the expert, exposure to bright light late in the evening (due to extra hours spent awake) can lead to decreased production of melatonin, also called the sleep hormone. However, teenagers are particularly susceptible to sleep problems due to increased daylight hours.
The neuroscience professor also cited a study that found that people living on the “west side” of time zones sleep less than those living on the east side. This is because the weather becomes brighter in the western border later in the morning. Switching clocks to daylight saving time increases the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and breast cancer in people living in a time zone with later sunsets.
According to Malou, this is due to the disruption of human circadian rhythms, that is, cyclical fluctuations in the intensity of various biological processes associated with the change of day and night.
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