Daylight saving time impacting sleep

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – It’s the thing we can never seem we can get enough of: sleep. With the upcoming time change, some may experience an affected rest schedule.

Advancing the clock to one hour could disrupt the sleep patterns of over 300 million people, according to Johns Hopkins. Aside of tiredness and overall mood, one study shows that the change can increase health risks, such as strokes.

Experts recommend going to bed around the same hour every night, eliminating screen time and getting at least seven hours of sleep. They encourage you to do this before the time change.

Dr. Michael Zachek, a renowned sleep expert, explains how rest impacts our bodies. He says that every organ in the body has “its own clock” with sleep being the “master clock.”

Zachek depicts our body as an “orchestra” and sleep is our “conductor.” He adds that once our body clock is coordinated, then our body is a “beautifully sounding symphony.”

While some states do not implement daylight saving time, the Trump administration has proposed to do away with it as a whole.