It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Through the long dark days of arriving at the office in the pitch black and going home long after night’s fallen, we’ve kept this chapter in the back of our minds: British Summer Time, where the clocks go forward one hour until October. Hooray. Right?
Well, as much as this is cause for Aperol-in-the-park celebration, there are health implications to consider too. Losing an hour of sleep can have an impact on your metabolism, hormones and energy levels, as your body runs on a circadian rhythms. In fact, the clocks changing causes such noticeable disruptions that the British Sleep Society has even campaigned to abolish Daylight Savings the world over to “safeguard public health and wellbeing”.
