How will your body and mind react when the clocks change this month? 

With the clocks changing this coming weekend on October 27 Dr Kat Lederle contributes to an article looking at how this can affect both our mind and body. Even though the change is just one hour, this can interfere with our body clocks and can affect a range of things from digestion to heart rate and blood pressure.

Some top tops from Dr Kat Lederle on how to adjust to this change include:

• Six days before the time change it can help to try and go to bed 10 minutes later progressively each day. When the clocks move forward in spring the same should apply with going to bed, 10 minutes earlier each day in the lead up to the change.
• The same advice applies to mealtimes and other daily routines such as exercise.

With the clocks changing this coming weekend on October 27 Dr Kat Lederle contributes to an article looking at how this can affect both our mind and body. Even though the change is just one hour, this can interfere with our body clocks and can affect a range of things from digestion to heart rate and blood pressure.

Some top tops from Dr Kat Lederle on how to adjust to this change include:

• Six days before the time change it can help to try and go to bed 10 minutes later progressively each day. When the clocks move forward in spring the same should apply with going to bed, 10 minutes earlier each day in the lead up to the change.
• The same advice applies to mealtimes and other daily routines such as exercise.

The change in time means that our bodies and brain need time to adjust. In addition the hour clock to change can also have a different effect, depending on our chronotype. Typically, if you are early to bed and early to rise, then the change can be a bit more of a struggle than for those who tend to stay up later and get up later.

“When we suddenly have this mismatch, our brain gets confused as to what process should be triggered, and what should be stopped.”

Find out more by reading the full article below, or if you have any questions and would like to know more, then please get in touch with us at our Harley Street, Private GP Practice here.