Tips for turning back the clocks after Halloween night

Well, this weekend isn't just Halloween. It's also the end of daylight saving time. Dr. Jen Caudle has tips for a safe holiday and how to eventually get the children in bed as we turn back the clocks. And you think that falling back is the easier one? Well, is it? It tends to be. Yeah, we like to, our bodies tend to like the falling back sort of time change a bit better than the springing forward. We talked about that last year. The springing forward really is rough. It's really, really rough. So the good thing is that falling back is a little bit better. You get that extra hour of sleep. Sometimes people feel like almost like a little bit of jet lag, but other people sort of adjust just fine. So that's the good thing is that this is sort of a good time of year. I feel like sleep deprived people, right? Maybe us, college students, high school students, they all look at this fall back, especially on a Halloween night or the day after as kind of an opportunity to have more fun in the night. But kids, I was telling you, like we talk about the sugar rush after Halloween. is this a myth is this really a thing are they going to crash at the end of the night so in terms of sugar and i know we're going to talk about halloween soon but in terms of sugar there's not really good data that suggests that sugar causes hyperactivity in kids i know it's sort of something we've been passing down for years and years but it's not necessarily that now we don't want kids eating a lot of candy right for all all the reasons obesity cavities all those kind of things but in terms of sleep you know some people don't need to maybe change their schedules with falling back some people may find it beneficial to go to kind of set their to go to sleep 10 to 15 minutes earlier for the next few nights just to kind of get acclimated to that but but again most of us don't have to do much also when the time changes sort of getting some sunlight kind of tells our body it's time to wake up it's time to keep going and I always think like with with daylight savings time it's always a good time to refresh our sleep hygiene which is just sort of good practices when we're talking about getting good sleep that's keeping the room dark, keeping it cool, not exercising or eating too close to bedtime, you know, making sure that we're not like on our phones at night. So it's a good time to sort of, you know, re sort of set our sleep cycles maybe in a good way. Now, members of Congress have talked about eliminating daylight saving time, just have the same time all year round. But it's designed so that we have more daylight in the morning rather than the evening. As a doctor, what would you rather have more daylight when you wake up or more daylight when you're doing stuff in the evening? Well, so as a doctor, what I want is what's going to be best for our bodies, right? So we do know that circadian rhythms and sleep and lack of sleep and sunlight and all of this actually plays a role in our health. So what I want is really where the science is taking us, which is what's best for our bodies. That's a whole conversation, but you just opened up a whole can of worms. But there are health impacts to time and time changes and going with the science is what I recommend. It doesn't help us we wake up and it's always dark yeah any advice for sleep deprived people who wake up and don't get to wake up to sun i mean that's just and go to sleep with sun sometimes this year is that this time of year is great for us because the sun has already gone down at some yeah are you guys trick-or-treating doing any halloween trick-or-treating i'm actually not doing anything halloween related no i'm not i'm actually not trick-or-treating this year um i'm not going to be dressing i'm not dressing up i should say i'm not dressing up how about you uh no i'm not going to be. But we're in the orange for Halloween. We are. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. We didn't plan it, but it worked out well. Yes. Dr. Jen Cottle. Thank you. Thank you. Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween. Happy Daylight Saving Time, Karen Rogers. Happy Halloween. And you know, when we think of daylight saving, we have to not only think of if we were to make it permanent, the change on our body, but the safety conditions on the roads. And I think that's one of the issues that has kind of stumped people with that. I remember caring for the kids, caring for my mom and the young and the elderly, that one hour makes a huge difference.