Sleep disorders, attention problems and loss of appetite… The risks associated with the change of schedule are significant, if you do not know how to anticipate them.
Twice a year, we all ask ourselves the question: When do we change time? Well, the transition to summer time will take place on the night of March 27 to 28. Another question pursues us, too, unceasingly: Do we lose an hour or do we gain an hour? Well, for next week, we’re losing an hour of sleep. Indeed, at 2 o’clock in the morning, it will be 3 o’clock.
The time change disturbs our sleep, because our biological rhythm is upset. Once our clocks are set, it will be time to ask ourselves what consequences this imposed change of pace can have on our health? Like any jet-lag, the transition to summer time disrupts our sleeping habits. First of all, you have to go to bed at a fixed time, in order to avoid too long periods of falling asleep.
Anticipate to better collect
Sleep disorders cause several pathologies such as a lack of appetite, a disorder of attention, irritability or even disorders of the immune system. To get back on track quickly, you have to force yourself to go to bed earlier.
Doctor Lamblin indicated in The women’s newspaperlast February:Melatonin is generally secreted in the dark, when we perceive less and less daylight. When we switch to summer time, we perceive the night later, our melatonin will be secreted later and we will want to sleep later at night. This is why, in winter, we want to curl up in our bed earlier than in summer. He pursues : “In addition, it will be less easy for us to get up in the morning.. It usually takes 3-4 days to fully cash out a time change“.
As for our difficulty getting up, it would be the fault of our internal temperature.
Doctor Patricia Beudin, doctor at the sleep center of Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital, explains this phenomenon, to France Info. Indeed, to fall asleep, our temperature drops slightly and this, throughout the night. “When you lose an hour, you get up even closer to your thermal minimum, so the urge to sleep is even more irresistible.”
To anticipate, go to bed earlier the days before a time change, this could greatly help you resist fatigue. If you do sports, concentrate your sessions at the end of next week, to reduce the health risks associated with the time change. And for those who don’t know, this jet-lag was imposed in 1975 to reduce energy consumption.
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