The fall time change is coming up on Sunday and it will impact you physically.
Dr. Colleen Carney is the director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory at Ryerson University in Toronto.
She tells us says this time change is easier on us because we gain an hour of sleep but our bodies will still need to adjust.
She compares it to travel because your body thinks it’s a certain time and you get on a plane and go somewhere else so you will suffer from jet lap until your body rearranges itself around it.
Dr. Colleen Carney runs the Sleep lab at Ryerson. She says time change impacts us like jet lag without the scenery. pic.twitter.com/GDomkQLXV1
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Dr. Carney says most people can take this in stride but it’s a different story if you struggle with insomnia so she suggests those folks get up an hour earlier on Sunday which would be their regular time.
Carney says even though it’s only one hour there is a difference it what your body expects to see and what it will see so you may have problems with fatigue, concentration, mood and eating but it will go away.
