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What's Health Got to Do with It?

The medical argument against daylight saving time

A man adjusts his clock during daylight saving time. The Norwegian island of Sommaroy, which sits north of the Arctic Circle, enjoys  unending sunlight from May 18 to July 26, and its residents argue that time is meaningless there.
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A man adjusts his clock during daylight saving time.

On this week’s episode, we discussed a rare connective tissue genetic condition known as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with Dr. Dacre Knight, medical director of the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, and our own Heather Schatz, who lives with the disease.

We also examined the medical argument against daylight saving time with Dr. Logan Schneider, consultant neurologist at the Stanford University/VA Alzheimer's Center and clinical assistant professor of sleep medicine at the Stanford University Sleep Center.

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