00:00The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.
00:10As people in the U.S. prepare to set their clocks ahead one hour on Sunday, March 12, 2023,
00:17I and nearly two-thirds would like to eliminate them completely, compared to 21% who aren't sure and 16% who would like to keep moving their clocks back and forth.
00:30But the effects go beyond simple inconvenience.
00:33Researchers are discovering that, springing ahead, each March is connected with serious negative health effects, including an uptick in heart attacks and teen sleep deprivation.
00:46In contrast, the fall transition back to standard time is not associated with these health effects, as my co-authors and I noted in a 2020 commentary.
00:55I've studied the pros and cons of these twice-annual rituals for more than five years as a professor of neurology and pediatrics and the director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Sleep Division.
01:12It's become clear to me and many of my colleagues that the transition to daylight saving time each spring affects health immediately after the clock change and also for the nearly eight months that Americans remain on daylight saving.
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