Why does Daylight Savings Time make you so tired?
When you think about daylight savings time, do you immediately think about getting more sleep or less? For some people, the time change is no big deal. But for a lot of people, daylight savings time means daytime sleepiness, sluggishness, and exhaustion.
Thankfully though, all this can be avoided with a few easy changes to your routine in the week leading up to the time change. Before we get into how to adjust to daylight savings time, let’s take a brief look at its history, and why you may feel so tired after the change.
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0:00 Daylight Savings and Sleep
0:35 Why do we have Daylight Savings
1:18 Why does Daylight Savings make you tired?
1:52 Who is Affected Most?
3:23 How to get great sleep during Daylight Savings
7:10 Summary
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