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Do you currently experience feelings of restlessness, excitement, or laziness?
The days get longer, the sun is shining, parks are beckoning to us. But amongst the exitement we feel we also feel strangly tired and weary. All we want to do is sleep, sleep, sleep!

This happens mainly in our latitudes where the length of the days and nights changes a lot throughout the year. And in spring the weather is liable to quick changes, too. Rain - Sunshine - Sleat, Warmth - Cold, all this can change in the course of only a few hours. Not only the "meteorosensitive" among us, meaning those that have strong physical reactions to the weather, perceive these weather changes as stress.

Another problem are our hormones. The sleep hormone melatonin suddenly isn't produced in the same levels any more which we are used to from , winter. The longer days and shorter nights mean a shift in hormone production. More serotonin is produced in our bodies, one of the "happy" hormones that provides us with vitality and energy. This whole hormone shift makes some people moody or outright crabby. But as soon as the serotonine wins the battle spring fever sets in - start of the mating season for both animals and humans.

So what to do against spring tiredness? As always: Get out in the fresh air! Take walks! And: Eat lots of fruit and veg and nuts!

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