Hmm... I always force myself to eat when it's time and the cortisol should off-balance my low blood pressure.
I better have a check up someday.
I better have a check up someday.
[Gizmodo]Working the Night Shift is Hazardous to Your Health
Uh-oh for you late night overclockers (including myself).
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Now I know why I'm really here: I'm helping the other Gizmodo writers prevent heart disease, bone fractures, cancer, diabetes and a completely wonked up metabolism by working the night shift. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences now confirms previous theories that being on the night shift is actually an occupational hazard. The findings show that circadian disruption, when a person's circadian rhythms split off from the regular day-night cycle, cause key metabolic hormones to act crazy. For instance: When your body's no longer sleeping when it thinks it should be, it stops producing as much leptin, a hormone that signals a body to stop eating. It also releases more cortisol, a stress hormone that's been linked to high blood pressure and obesity. So, other Gizmodo writers: When you wake up in the morning and take a long gander at your so-delightfully svelte selves before settling down to your day's blogging routine, I want you to know. You're welcome. [Wired] |
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I disagree with this claim. The circadian rhythm isn't even tied to the rotation of the earth. Its closer to 25 hours by most studies. The human mind takes cues from the sun and also from clocks/alarms, when both are removed, we tend to sleep in an extra hour in the morning, and stay up an extra hour at night. Eventually this re-balances itself and has nothing to do with night or day, its just the way the circadian rhythm is. I think a study that made you force yourself to work nights without worrying about night or day, closing the windows from light when you sleep, eating at the proper times during the night, and not looking at the "night shift" as being a night shift, rather as being your regular shift, I think the findings may be different.
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They mean Night shift like, from 8pm to 4am or similar 8 hour shift that goes from late at night to early in the morning.
I think its all relative... i mean, people in Europe dont have trouble sleeping at night and waking up in the day... because of light and thats the opposite schedule we have here in the US. As humans we operate on cues from clocks and light. if you remove both, you can sleep whenever you want without issue
removing clocks is easy, you just have to train your mind to think PM is AM and visa versa... removing light is harder. in fact, if you travel to work, its impossible.
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Originally Posted by jonny1989 working the night shift can't be that bad. I have been doing to for almost a year as a PizzaHut driver. |
I think its all relative... i mean, people in Europe dont have trouble sleeping at night and waking up in the day... because of light and thats the opposite schedule we have here in the US. As humans we operate on cues from clocks and light. if you remove both, you can sleep whenever you want without issue
removing clocks is easy, you just have to train your mind to think PM is AM and visa versa... removing light is harder. in fact, if you travel to work, its impossible.
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Any stress on your job is likely to be related to idiotic drivers trying to run over your tiny little shoe-with-wheels than the shift you work
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Originally Posted by jonny1989 working the night shift can't be that bad. I have been doing to for almost a year as a PizzaHut driver. I don't find my selft eating to much or stressed out all the time. But when I do get stress I like to work on my jeep as a stress releaf. Then take it out 4X4ing. I think the key is to like your job. I love driving around all night listening to music, Not having someone there breathing down my neck on how to do my job. |
Any stress on your job is likely to be related to idiotic drivers trying to run over your tiny little shoe-with-wheels than the shift you work
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Alright there twilight
calm down
Originally Posted by Heavy Light 117 What if you are a vampire like me? Does that mean I have bad leptin levels? As for my blood pressure...blood.............need blood... *heads off into the night in search of prey* |
calm down
oh my...my lullaby time starts at 4AM!!!
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The body has it's own internal clock, you know. It's not healthy for you.
Originally Posted by RayvinAzn Pure BS if you treat the night shift like your regular life. If you work say, 8pm to 4am, stay awake until 8-10am, and sleep through the day. I worked night shifts for years and suffered no ill effects, weight gain or otherwise, simply because I didn't treat it as a night shift, but rather as my regular life. It's the people that think of it as wrong and change their sleep cycles on their days off that get screwed up. |
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An extreme sport should offset your low bp. I know it does mine some niceness. Try riding at 45mph on a snowboard once and a while.
Originally Posted by arkheii Hmm... I always force myself to eat when it's time and the cortisol should off-balance my low blood pressure. I better have a check up someday. |
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Doctors said I was fine, my weight stayed within a reasonable degree of tolerance (+/- 5lbs), and I only got sick about once a year, if that. Some people might have problems, but they're probably brought on by thinking that they're running odd hours rather than any actual permanent genetic clock setting.
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No, it has a cycle, by making sure you don't act like its changed, you'll be perfectly fine, most problems come from being like "Okay I changed it!"
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...Where is Blade when you need him.
Originally Posted by Heavy Light 117 What if you are a vampire like me? Does that mean I have bad leptin levels? As for my blood pressure...blood.............need blood... *heads off into the night in search of prey* |
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