The research is clear: switching clocks twice a year causes sleep deprivation, circadian disruption, cardiovascular stress, mood instability, workplace accidents, and even spikes in heart attacks the week after the change. That’s not fringe data — it’s published in JAMA, NEJM, and acknowledged by the U.S. Department of Transportation, NIH, and CDC. Lawmakers have held hearings. Everyone knows. Yet we still do it.
Why?
Because once a system embeds itself — railroads, commerce, broadcast schedules, school timing, energy policy — it breeds institutional inertia. Each layer waits for another to move first. There’s no direct profit in fixing it, and the “cost” of individual suffering is diffuse, invisible in quarterly reports. So the dysfunction persists, even when it’s biologically irrational.
It’s a microcosm of a deeper truth: our operating systems were never designed for human circadian, mitochondrial, or psychological coherence — they were built for industrial synchronization and economic throughput. Their hidden purpose is to keep the machinery running and the populace stable when the system wobbles, all while serving the collective pursuit of “progress,” "convenience", and “safety.”
Even our health and performance systems — supposedly built to protect and enhance life — have fallen behind the pace of discovery. They lag decades behind frontier science. Breakthroughs that could transform health remain buried in silos, ignored by institutions and individuals optimized for compliance or influencer hype — not regeneration or true science. The system doesn’t reward prevention, performance, or coherence. It rewards obedience.
And now, we literally obey the clock.
The daylight-saving switch just exposes that misalignment in its purest form.
So the question is: what are you willing to do to restore coherence — in your biology, your rhythm, your day?
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Links:
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/7-things-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-dark-side-of-daylight-saving-time
https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/daylight-savings-time-your-health
https://utswmed.org/medblog/daylight-saving-time-sleep-health/
I guess we are more sane in Arizona, we do not subscribe to daylight time. The rest of you need to get in line.