DST isn't itself a problem, it's just highlighting a problem. Imagine someone who wakes naturally without alarms two hours before he starts work. In the spring, the clocks change, but he doesn't. He now wakes naturally an hour before he starts work. Nothing has to change for his health or his circadian cycle, the only change is what part of his waking day is consumed by work. Is it +2 to +11 or is it +1 to +10? If he doesn't like having only an hour before work, he can slowly shift his sleep cycle until part of the year he starts work at +3 and part of the year he starts at +2.
They can't take the sun from us. Clock-time is a tyranny and an imposition to begin with, but we don't have to let it touch anything except what 'time' we go to work.
If possible move towards having more flexibility in work hours and live life entirely by the solar time.
Ok now that I've performed my yearly ritual of DST hate, on to commenting about your actual point: I agree it looks fishy, and I'd wonder if you could fit that to bathtub sales (or whatever that joke meme datapoint is).
From what I've learned (lately, from you and the people you follow on twitter) my assumptions would be:
1) Primary initial weight loss (that portion of the first month exclusive of initial water weight drop) is a function of metabolic rate vs lean body mass.
2) For most dieters, metabolism slows due to starvation signals and effects of dealing with ω6FAs (from WAT and their food if they're e.g. going low fat).
3) It gets harder to stay on the diet due to signals (whether from dying gut flora, ω6FA munchies, or one of a myriad other symptoms of the broken homeostat).
These all together cause the typical tapering-off-and-stopping effect of most diets, which lead us to think of this as a law of nature, and mostly ignore stories of those who escape this.
Apologies if you've already done this and written it up somewhere on your blog, but... have you tried anything in the spirit of Eliezer Yudkowsky's "what if we used more power?" approach to treating his wife's Seasonal Affective Disorder, where, on noticing that normal anti-SAD lamps didn't seem to do much, he simply rigged up a massive amount of lamps to illuminate the living space with about as much power as natural daylight? It wouldn't be trivially cheap, but if you could rig up a "lumenator", as they're calling them in rationalist-space - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZAMA4y6SbtFCTjjY4/a-new-option-for-building-lumenators - with the gradual phase-in function of a sunrise-simulating alarm clock/lamp, you could have your sunrise stay the same across the break into daylight saving time.
Can you link raw data for the weight loss graph? If you want to test if there's a hidden "lipostat" variable, shouldn't you crowdsource such data and have someone do a proper statistics study?
DST isn't itself a problem, it's just highlighting a problem. Imagine someone who wakes naturally without alarms two hours before he starts work. In the spring, the clocks change, but he doesn't. He now wakes naturally an hour before he starts work. Nothing has to change for his health or his circadian cycle, the only change is what part of his waking day is consumed by work. Is it +2 to +11 or is it +1 to +10? If he doesn't like having only an hour before work, he can slowly shift his sleep cycle until part of the year he starts work at +3 and part of the year he starts at +2.
They can't take the sun from us. Clock-time is a tyranny and an imposition to begin with, but we don't have to let it touch anything except what 'time' we go to work.
If possible move towards having more flexibility in work hours and live life entirely by the solar time.
Ok now that I've performed my yearly ritual of DST hate, on to commenting about your actual point: I agree it looks fishy, and I'd wonder if you could fit that to bathtub sales (or whatever that joke meme datapoint is).
From what I've learned (lately, from you and the people you follow on twitter) my assumptions would be:
1) Primary initial weight loss (that portion of the first month exclusive of initial water weight drop) is a function of metabolic rate vs lean body mass.
2) For most dieters, metabolism slows due to starvation signals and effects of dealing with ω6FAs (from WAT and their food if they're e.g. going low fat).
3) It gets harder to stay on the diet due to signals (whether from dying gut flora, ω6FA munchies, or one of a myriad other symptoms of the broken homeostat).
These all together cause the typical tapering-off-and-stopping effect of most diets, which lead us to think of this as a law of nature, and mostly ignore stories of those who escape this.
Apologies if you've already done this and written it up somewhere on your blog, but... have you tried anything in the spirit of Eliezer Yudkowsky's "what if we used more power?" approach to treating his wife's Seasonal Affective Disorder, where, on noticing that normal anti-SAD lamps didn't seem to do much, he simply rigged up a massive amount of lamps to illuminate the living space with about as much power as natural daylight? It wouldn't be trivially cheap, but if you could rig up a "lumenator", as they're calling them in rationalist-space - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZAMA4y6SbtFCTjjY4/a-new-option-for-building-lumenators - with the gradual phase-in function of a sunrise-simulating alarm clock/lamp, you could have your sunrise stay the same across the break into daylight saving time.
have you tried using the sun imitating lamp when walking up to adjust the body clock?
Can you link raw data for the weight loss graph? If you want to test if there's a hidden "lipostat" variable, shouldn't you crowdsource such data and have someone do a proper statistics study?