ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOX) - Don't forget, we change our clocks this weekend. Saturday night going into Sunday morning, we spring forward -- moving our clocks up one hour.
Not to unnecessarily scare you, but a lot of bad things tend to happen in that first week after we set our clocks up one hour. "During the week after the shift in Spring to daylight saving time, there's an increase in cardiovascular disease with a 20% increased risk of heart attacks in that first week," says Dr. Thomas Siler, a sleep medicine specialist and the Medical Director of the Sleep Lab at SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital in St. Charles, "There's an increase in injuries. There's a 6% increase in fatal car accidents."
And an increase in colitis attacks, migraine headaches, depression and insomnia - all because of a change in our circadian clock. Dr. Siler says it would make sense for the U.S. to stop changing our clocks twice a year -- and if we had to choose, he says, sleep experts say Standard Time would be the better choice for our body clocks.
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