Putting Clocks Forward has 'Enormous Impact' On Health Time: Daylight Savings Time: Daylight Savings Seasonal Changes Can Reduce Immunity

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IT'S a convention which allows us to enjoy long summer evenings, but switching to daylight savings time could also be responsible for drastically disrupting the body's internal clock.

According to researchers, the onehour time jump that takes place in the spring when clocks are put forward one hour can result in people's natural circadian rhythms being disturbed for nearly a fifth of the year.

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Putting Clocks Forward has 'Enormous Impact' On Health Time: Daylight Savings Time: Daylight Savings Seasonal Changes Can Reduce Immunity

And they argued this could be having an "enormous" impact on health by interfering with the body's "seasonal" defences to viruses.

A study was carried out by tracking the sleep patterns of 65,000 people...

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