Daylight saving ends this weekend — Doctors say the change to standard time is better for your health
Updated: 8:11 PM EDT Nov 1, 2023
THE TIME HAS ON OUR HEALTH. DOCTOR JOANNA FONG IS SARI WONG SAYS ANY TIME WE CHANGE THE CLOCKS, IT CAN BE HARD ON US. THE SUN WILL BE UP EARLIER. IT MAY BE DARK WHEN WE GET BACK HOME, BUT SHE SAYS THIS PARTICULAR TIME CHANGE IS ACTUALLY THE BEST FOR OUR BODIES. IT’S ACTUALLY BETTER ALIGNMENT WITH WITH OUR BODY, BETTER ALIGNED WITH OUR INTERNAL CLOCK. ACCORDING TO UPMC NEUROLOGIST DR. JOANNA FONG, SRS WONG, SHE SAYS STANDARD TIME, WHICH WE MOVE BACK TO THIS WEEKEND, IS A GOOD THING. WE’RE SLEEPING IN LATER, GOING TO BED LATER. USUALLY IS MORE GENTLE TO OUR BODY. BUT DOCTOR FONG, SARS WONG SAYS ANY TIME CHANGE CAN BE JARRING TO OUR HEALTH. IT DOES KIND OF MESS WITH OUR MOOD AND FOR I’M A NEUROLOGIST, SO FOR FOR PEOPLE WITH MIGRAINE HEADACHES, EPILEPSY, THESE KIND OF CLOCK SHIFTS CAN ACTUALLY AGGRAVATE SYMPTOMS. SO DOCTOR FONG, SRT WONG SAYS SHE TELLS HER PATIENTS TO ADJUST SLOWLY. AND SHE TELLS ME IF SHE COULD END THIS FOR THEM, SHE WOULD. I THINK THE THE MOST HEALTHY AND REASONABLE, REASONABLE WAY TO END CLOCK SHIFT IS TO END DAYLIGHT SAVING AND JUST KEEP STANDARD TIME BECAUSE STANDARD TIME IS BETTER ALIGNMENT WITH OUR CIRCADIAN RHYTHM, THE INTERNAL CLOCK AND IS BETTER FOR OUR PHYSICAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH AND FOR OUR STUDENTS. IT’S BETTER FOR THEIR ACADEMIC SUCCESS. DOCTOR FONG, SRT WONG SAYS AS LONG AS WE CONTINUE TO CHANGE THE CLOCKS TWICE A YEAR, WE CAN MAKE SOME CHANGES OURSELVES TO DEAL WITH IT BETTER, SHE SAYS. MAYBE WAKE UP A LITTLE EARLIER AND DO THAT IN INCREMENTS AND GO TO BED A LITTLE EARLIER EACH NIGHT UNTIL WE HIT THAT ONE HOUR CHAIN, SHE SAYS. THEN OUR BODIES WILL BARELY
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Daylight saving ends this weekend — Doctors say the change to standard time is better for your health
Updated: 8:11 PM EDT Nov 1, 2023
Dr. Joanna Fong Isariyawongse, a neurologist with UPMC, said any time change impacts our health, but the end to daylight saving time this weekend is typically a good thing. “It’s actually better alignment with our body,” said Fong Isariyawongse. “We’re sleeping in later and going to bed later. It usually is more gentle to our body.”The doctor said she tells her patients that to best handle a time change, they should adjust things such as their bedtime in 15-minute increments so that when the hour change begins, their body will hardly notice.Dr. Fong Isariyawongse said the healthiest time is one that remains the same.”I think the most healthy and reasonable way to end clock shift is to end daylight saving and just keep standard time, because standard time is better alignment with our circadian rhythm, the internal clock, and is better for our physical health, mental health and for our students better for their academic success,” said Fong Isariyawongse.
Dr. Joanna Fong Isariyawongse, a neurologist with UPMC, said any time change impacts our health, but the end to daylight saving time this weekend is typically a good thing.
“It’s actually better alignment with our body,” said Fong Isariyawongse. “We’re sleeping in later and going to bed later. It usually is more gentle to our body.”
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The doctor said she tells her patients that to best handle a time change, they should adjust things such as their bedtime in 15-minute increments so that when the hour change begins, their body will hardly notice.
Dr. Fong Isariyawongse said the healthiest time is one that remains the same.
“I think the most healthy and reasonable way to end clock shift is to end daylight saving and just keep standard time, because standard time is better alignment with our circadian rhythm, the internal clock, and is better for our physical health, mental health and for our students better for their academic success,” said Fong Isariyawongse.