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Interview with Roger Godbout: Impact of the time change on sleep
Most people in the country switched to daylight saving time on the night of March 11-12. PHOTO : getty images/fstop / Malte Mueller
Are you still looking for the hour of sleep you lost last weekend due to Daylight Savings Time? Roger Godbout, who is the director of the Sleep Laboratory at the Rivière-des-Prairies Mental Health Hospital, will himself need three days to recover. At the microphone of All one morning, he explains why, in his opinion, it is high time that we switch to standard time all year round. It also gives a trick to prepare for the next time changes by then.
Light is a great synchronizer for all of our biological rhythms, including mood, physical health, concentration, and the ability to learn.
, says the one who is also a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal. It is mainly for this reason that he believes that it is better to have an hour more sunshine in the morning than in the evening.
Moreover, if the rule of time changes remains, Roger Godbout thinks that the time should be changed during the night from Friday to Saturday, rather than from Saturday to Sunday, in order to have one more day to adjust before returning to work on Monday.