The health consequences of daylight saving time shifts

04/10/2025 7 min
The health consequences of daylight saving time shifts

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Changing the clock has been controversial since we started doing it in Australia from the 1960s.Your personal stance aside, there is evidence that changing between standard and daylight saving times can have health consequences.A new study has looked into these time shifts and their affects on obesity and stroke.Guest/sProfessor Jamie Zeitzer, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in Sleep Medicine at Stanford UniversityReferencesCircadian-informed modeling predicts regional variation in obesity and stroke outcomes under different permanent US time policies