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IT’S ONCE AGAIN TIME TO FALL-BACK, WITH THE END OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME. 

THAT MEANS SETTING YOUR CLOCK BACK AN HOUR BEFORE YOU GO TO BED SUNDAY AT 2 A-M.

EXPERTS SAY THE SEASONAL TIME SHIFT, CAN BE HARD ON YOUR BODY BY DISRUPTING YOUR CIRCADIAN RHYTHM. 

THAT’S THE 24 HOUR CYCLE THAT DETERMINES WHEN WE BECOME SLEEPY AND WHEN WE’RE MORE ALERT. 

SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie Zeitzer, Stanford University:

“It’s a 24-hour clock, it's a near 24-hour clock that needs to get synchronized to our 24-hour day every day." 

 

THERE ARE WAYS TO HELP YOUR BODY EASE INTO THE TIME CHANGE. 

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie Zeitzer, Stanford University:

“When you wake up, get that light, and that'll help accelerate the switch faster.

SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie Zeitzer, Stanford University:

“If you can, go outside. If not, try to be in a brightly lit room as much as possible, or sit by a window. This will help facilitate kind of shifting your clock faster in the fall. “

SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie Zeitzer, Stanford University:

“You can move your clock earlier, if it's something that is difficult, you can kind of move it, you can do the fallback like 15 minutes a night for a couple of nights preceding it.”

SOME HEALTH GROUPS HAVE LONG ADVOCATED TO DO AWAY WITH TIME CHANGE ALL TOGETHER.

NEW DATA RECENTLY RELEASED FROM STANFORD UNIVERSITY AGREES.  

SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie Zeitzer, Stanford University:

“If we transition to constant year-long daylight saving time, that's better. But what's even better than that is transitioning to year- long standard time.”

 

SOME EXPERTS BELIEVE STICKING WITH STANDARD TIME ALIGNS BETTER WITH THE SUN AND YOUR BODY’S NATURAL RHYTHM.