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Welcome back to wake up with Cheddar every single year. Twice a year, people nationwide are forced to adjust their clocks by an hour for daylight saving time, a concept that was originally introduced his way to extend daylight hours. But new research suggests that the time change may not necessarily be so good for our bodies. Dr. Shalini Peru The of the Sleep, Medicine and Research Center at ST Luke's Hospital joins us now to discuss, uh, Dr Great to have you on. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine came out with a statement this week saying that these seasonal time changes should be abolished in favor of a fixed national year round standard time. What is their argument for a standard time? Well, good morning and thanks for having me to talk about this incredibly important topic. Sleep is so important for all of us to be able to function well during our daytime routines and daytime work and interacting with others. And so that is exactly right. There is actually new evidence now that support, um, that whenever we change and we lose sleep or we lose an hour of sleep with the time change that that can actually be detrimental to our health. So we know that traffic accidents do increase the first few days after the switch to daylight saving time. And it's not just in effect only on Monday, but it actually extends even into the workweek. We also had new research that was just published at or just, um, disgusted our national sleep meeting this past weekend, which found that there is an 18% increase in adverse medical events related to human error in the week after switching to daylight savings time. Not only that, we have some evidence over the last few years that people do experience an increase in heart attacks and mood disturbances, especially following that spring forward and loss of an hour of sleep for the switch to daylight saving time. So that was my next question. What is worse springing forward or falling back just in terms of health? So most people find that just in their normal workdays, they're already running a little bit sleep deprived. So whenever we spring forward and we actually lose an hour of sleep for a lot of people, especially if they haven't had the opportunity thio either. A. Just a little bit ahead of time, the two or three days leading up to the change. And if they're not able to compensate even on the day of the change, then they may actually lose that our sleep and be at more risk. How long does it usually take for our bodies to adjust to the time change? So sleep Scientists have taken a pretty good look at how long it takes us. Thio, adjust the time change. And generally speaking, it takes us about one full day to adjust for an hour switch in time So we can even use that information, especially when we think about jet lag or travel. Um, is there any place that has abolished daylight saving and done it successfully? There are some areas even within the United States that have done that. So some local governments have made the change where they only stay on one step time for the entire year. Also, there are parts of Arizona and Hawaii in general, for the majority of the state area has chosen Thio stay with just one time on DSO Is this actually gonna happen? I mean, is there a movement that you think that this actually just nationally may happen that we abolished daylight saving. This is a great question. And so, in theory, Erica Academy of Sleep Medicine actually did conduct a survey of over 2000 adults, and they found that actually, 63% of adult would favor eliminating the seasonal time change in favor of a national fix year round time and I and interestingly, only 11% of people opposed to that where there is also the newly formed Sleep Health Caucus within Congress. And so the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and we all encourage people to share their sleep stories with their local Congress people. Onda, we really think our Congress representatives. So we law Lofgren and Mr Rodney Davis for co sponsoring this new sleep Health caucus. All right, well, we hear wake up with Cheddar, um, are early risers, so we're definitely paying attention to this story. Uh, Dr Shalini Peru, the of the Sleep, Medicine and Research center at ST Luke's Hospital. Really great to have you on. Thank you so much.