Daylight Saving Time Is Worse for Your Body Than Standard Time

Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia will reset their clocks Sunday and spring forward into daylight saving time, giving us an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings but eliminating an hour of early-morning sun.

Morning sun is key to maintaining our circadian rhythms, sleep-wake cycles and overall health, experts say.

Phyllis Zee, a neurologist and the chief of sleep medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said that, without that sunlight, we can slip into circadian misalignment — "when your internal body clocks fall out of sync with that of the sun clock and your social clocks."

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