With summer approaching, many people are wondering: whether it is necessary to change the clocks this year. Experts from various industries speak positively about the translation of clocks, arguing that it saves electricity. According to estimates, it is about 240 million.
Also, according to experts, due to the increase in daylight hours, the productivity of the population increases. At the same time, there is a significant minus – exacerbation of chronic diseases, depression, an increase in the number of accidents and suicides.
Given that it is necessary to adapt to the transition to another type of time, which is not always pleasant, citizens want to know in advance – whether to wait for the clock change. In the material estet-portal.com, you will learn how to be prepared for daylight saving time without harming your health and what methods will help you deal with it best.
Daylight Savings Time: how the body reacts
A number of countries have already abandoned this way of saving electricity. In Ukraine, despite various discussions and discussions, they have not yet decided whether to abandon this tradition. According to the chronomedics, the transfer of clocks to daylight saving time is a favorable phenomenon in the life of society, since with the help of the transfer of the clock hands, metabolism is trained. And in order to survive it without harming the body, they advise going to bed an hour or two earlier, so that after 3-4 days your body will fully adapt to the new regimen.
Psychological effect of color on the human body
At the same time, doctors warn that moving time forward an hour can also have a negative impact on human health. This process affects both the psychological and physical state of a person and can cause temporary stress, due to which a short-term failure occurs in the body (diasynchronosis – Ed.). In simple words: our internal biological time ceases to be synchronized with external time.
As for the psychological state, diasynchronosis can lead to decreased performance, overwork, irritability, sleep disturbance, emotional incontinence.
Change to winter time: how easy it is to adapt
During the first five days, according to medical workers, the number of ambulance calls increases significantly; to heart patients. Exacerbation of such diseases as hypertension, gastric ulcer, endocrine diseases, bronchial asthma, rheumatic diseases, etc. is not excluded. To say that this is the cause of all the listed diseases – wrong, but the impetus for the progression of diseases can be stress.
In addition, such a disease as depression joins this list. But our body is able to adapt and therefore the state of vulnerability and increased fatigue can last up to 14 days, then everything falls into place again.
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How to survive this transition: eight useful tips
This failure will affect the work of all internal organs, because for some time they will have to function in dissonance with your usual schedule: an hour earlier than usual to process food, tune in to physical activity, etc.
It is necessary to start preparations in advance to facilitate adaptation. Here are some tips that will help the body to rebuild as quickly as possible.
1. Sunday — daytime sleep.
The body needs to be given extra rest to get used to the new rhythm. Two hours after dinner, put your gadgets aside and just lie down with your eyes closed. Surely, in a state of stress, the body will quickly succumb to the temptation to fall asleep.
2. Take care of the lighting
Proper lighting allows the body to tune in to falling asleep or waking up quickly, and this will help to quickly adapt to temporary changes.
If you wake up and it is still dark outside, immediately turn on the overhead light. Before going to bed, close the curtains tightly so that the apartment is pitch dark.
3. Take a contrast shower
Starting tomorrow morning, train yourself to take a contrast shower. It will help to cheer up by accelerating blood circulation and lymph flow. Shower for 10-15 minutes, five of which alternate between very hot and icy water (for 3-5 seconds).
4. Move active activities to the morning
Trainings, negotiations, schedule for the first half of the day. Otherwise, the nervous system will not have time to return to normal before you need to go to bed, and as a result, you will be disturbed by insomnia. In the evening, take care of quiet activities: beauty treatments, cooking, etc.
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5. Stretch well when you wake up
To wake up quickly, you must definitely stretch your whole body. Try to reach an imaginary distant object with the tips of your fingers and toes. At the same time, strain all the muscles of the body as much as possible and relax sharply. Then massage your fingertips on your hands for a minute — a huge number of nerve endings are concentrated there, and their stimulation gives the body a signal to wake up.
6. Drink orange-lemon juice
End your awakening ritual by drinking a glass of orange-lemon fresh juice. Do not forget to dilute the juice with water in a ratio of 1: 1. This mix turned out to be a shock dose of vitamin C and acids, which have a tonic effect on the nervous and cardiovascular systems. Lemon also contains a shock dose of vitamin C, which stimulates the brain.
7. Go to bed 10 minutes earlier
In order to wake up normally on Sunday by an alarm clock, you need to go to bed an hour earlier on Saturday (in order to give the body the required 7 & ndash; 8 hours of rest). So start today: every day go to bed 15 minutes earlier than the previous one, but also wake up earlier. By the weekend, you will be able to bring the time to fall asleep to the required.
8. Give up coffee
The habit of drinking coffee during the day will have to be temporarily put aside. Maximum — one cup in the morning. Caffeine acts on the nervous system as an irritant (due to this, an invigorating and awakening effect occurs). Drink green tea instead of coffee. Due to the high content of antioxidants, it will also help to cheer up.
Try to follow these rules and your body will much more easily transfer the clock to daylight saving time and not bring it out of "combat" time. building. Drink vitamins, rest more, especially in the early days, throw negative thoughts out of your head, and this process will bypass you.
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