Darker mornings could ‘throw off’ our body clocks: U of L professor

Unlike last year, when we turned out clocks back an hour, we’re going to see a lot more darker mornings over the next few weeks. 

Dr. Robert McDonald, with the U of L, has done studies on changing shift schedules and the impact it has.

“So, we know shift working disrupts our circadium rhythms. You know you have this biological clock deep inside your brain that gets set for the light/dark cycle,” explains the Neuroscience professor.

“When you do shift work, that clock gets disrupted significantly and there’s a lot of health problems that are associated with that. They are very, very bad.”