Today's night change affects health negatively

Like each year, you cannot escape the return of the autumn hour on the last weekend of October (day 27), where the clock is changed between Saturday and Sunday.

At three o'clock this morning will change. It seems that there is only one advantage: we will have an extra hour to sleep. But the overall landscape does not seem to be so beautiful and colorful... The effects are other...

Why does changing the clock make us sick?

Most of us feel tired, exhausted, slept badly, or felt frustrated. What happens?

Even a small designation of this pace is sufficient for our biological clock to move away from predictions, bringing fatigue, low moods and sleep disorders”, says Roberto Manfredin, professor of medicine at the University of Ferrara, an expert on chronobiology. But it is possible to reorganize our inner alarm and avoid the discomforts caused by changing time. Here's some practical advice...

“We can cheat our internal clock by playing light a few days ago and after the time shift. How?

In the evening, to block the melatonin (sleep - causing bush) simply expose yourself to artificial light. Turn on TV or a computer during dinner preparation: The blue glow of these instruments, which has 100 times greater power than light, helps us to become more or less like owls and to postpone sleep.

<x0). When changing time affects a negative mood, mild therapy is needed.

“It is a matter of exposing yourself, at a certain time with electronic games, in a lamp that sheds a brilliant light and reconcorses circus rhythms”, explains Dr. Cucchi. Therapy can be done at special centers or at home.