How You Should Spend That Extra Hour As Daylight Saving Time Ends

(CNN) — It’s Sunday morning, and you open your eyes to discover it’s still incredibly early because — huzzah! — we’ve reached the end of the seasonal practice known as Daylight Saving Time. Do you: A) Immediately roll over and go back to sleep? or B) Tell yourself that you shouldn’t be lazy, and get up to make the most of this “extra” hour? It’s a trick question, because there isn’t a perfectly right answer that would be the same for everyone. But in general, experts say, most should use the fall time change to squeeze in more sleep — and with zero guilt about doing so. “We live in a society where the CDC considers sleep deprivation to be a public health epidemic,” said Dr. Nate Watson, a professor of neurology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and co-director of the school’s sleep center. “Easily a third of individuals are not getting the recommended seven or more hours of sleep on a nightly basis, which is necessary to support optimal health. So taking that into consideration, I would recommend that people use that hour [from the time change] to get additional sleep.” This is particularly true for those who skimp on sleep during the workweek, added Dr. Phyllis Zee, the chief of sleep medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “For most people,” she said, “it’s a good idea to get an extra hour of sleep b...
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