03/10/2024
If I were running for president, I’d run on a platform of medical freedom so that everyone has access and ability to decide whether or not heart bypass surgery, chemotherapy, plastic surgery, or abortions are right for them. I’d also put together the greatest minds to come up with incentives to support the REDUCE component of reduce, reuse and recycle. Maybe I’d hire Marie Kondo. The first executive action I would take would be to cancel daylight savings time. That’s right…gone-zo. For those of you who are confused (which I think there is a lot of confusion around this) that means NOT changing the clock back tonight or ever again. Daylight savings time was created in the early 1900s to boost the economy by lending itself to longer working hours while simultaneously conserving energy. We no longer live in a society where this makes sense economically. So why do we still participate in it? Is it because our already over stimulated minds and bodies need 60 more minutes of evening “daylight” to fill with more noise? I challenge you to count how many times you can wake up during the daylight savings time without an alarm. When you are broken from sleep by sirens and tempted by apple’s inane 9 minute snooze feature, you spike your cortisol. Cortisol is supposed to rise in the morning like a rolling hill, not like Pike’s Peak. Early cortisol spikes lead to needing more caffeine to get going and often experiencing afternoon crashes. All of these are counterintuitive to health promotion. If you look around, we are plagued with lifestyle diseases like high blood pressure and anxiety due to our tendencies to go-go-go. We need to slow down and focus on what we have as opposed to what we want, support each other through practicing patience and take down day light savings time. I’ll see you at the polls in November.
