How Daylight Saving affects your sleep and health

The ending of Daylight Saving Time (DST) to Standard Time (ST) has been shown to negatively affect our health, both mental and physical. Studies report that falling back to gain one hour of daylight in the autumn months causes reductions in sleep and increases rates of cardiac issues, stroke, cortisol production, and vehicular accidents. The good news is that as our body’s circadian rhythm adjusts to the time change, the risk of these adverse experiences greatly reduces.