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28. Is Daylight Saving Time Hazardous to Your Health?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Sleep Loss Causes Diobedes

During the day, when it's light outside and our brains are taking in light, it actually suppresses our production of natural malatonin. When it gets to be dark, let's say, eight o'clock, nine o'clock at night, earlier in the or we turn off the suppression and we turn on the melotonean production. So darkness promotes the release of melotonan in our brains, which then allows us to fall asleep. The disruption doesn't stop at melatonen mahem. When we're off an hour, we're off from our outside environment. That has been shown to trigger a whole host of genes.

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