An Ottawa sleep expert recommends getting exposure to daylight and being active this weekend to help adjust to the one-hour time change.
An Ottawa sleep expert recommends exposure to daylight, being active and getting lots of rest this weekend to help adjust to the one-hour time change.
Sleep expert Andrew Holmes tells CTV Morning Live the time change can also result in impaired decision-making and irritability and mood swings. Holmes, the founder of Sleep Efficiency in Ottawa, shared three tips with CTV Morning Live this week to adjust to the start of daylight saving time and improve your sleep this weekend.Holmes recommends getting more exposure to daylight early on Sunday, calling it a "critical piece" to adjusting to the time change.
"If we can get outside, expose our self to as much daylight as possible throughout the daytime it will help re-synchronize that circadian rhythm and kind of slowly start to readjust it.""Exercise is obviously a great thing. Lots of studies show that the more we exercise it allows us to fall asleep a lot faster," Holmes told CTV Morning Live.
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