We’re wired for seasons—even in a 24/7 world. Circadian biology could hold the key to better sleep, mood, and personalized care. #CircadianRhythms #SeasonalHealth #ShiftWork
https://geekoo.news/seasonal-clocks-in-humans-shape-how-we-sleep-and-feel/
#Shiftwork
Shift work is the worst for having motivation to do stuff outside work (exercise, gardening, hobbies etc) as you can’t set a regular time to do things as your schedule never aligns with anyone else’s.
I have so many projects and things I’d like to do but am always putting things off as I know I will never find the time to be able to complete them.
Any tips on organisation and staving off procrastination for shift workers?
I’m convinced: consistent wake-up times are more necessary than the amount of hours slept for my best health (so far)…
It’s a tricky line, because we DO need good sleep and plenty of it to do our best the next day, but a wishy-washy wake up can throw off a schedule just as badly.
South Korean bond dealing rooms prepare for night futures trading with shift work and extended hours, as market expands to include government bond futures
#YonhapInfomax #NightFuturesTrading #BondDealingRooms #ShiftWork #GovernmentBondFutures #ExtendedTradingHours #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=63760
Shift work may be silently aging your muscles. Discover how disrupted circadian rhythms impact muscle health. #MuscleHealth #CircadianRhythms #ShiftWork
https://geekoo.news/muscle-clocks-and-the-hidden-toll-of-shift-work/
One of the downsides of working overnights is that your days become a little distorted and it's weird to be leaving and coming back to work in the same day.
@imoves61 @alopix Or they have hard working hours and always come home late at night. #shiftwork
Shift workers face higher heart risks due to disrupted body clocks. New study shows daytime eating can mitigate these dangers. #ShiftWork #HeartHealth #CircadianRhythm
https://geekoo.news/daytime-eating-shields-shift-workers-from-heart-risks/
Two weeks from today I start my first overnight shift at the hospital. I knew I'd have to do this occasionally when I took the job, but as someone who has never once in my five decades of existence stayed up through a whole night I'm not exactly looking forward to it :neocat_laugh_tears:
I'm a morning person to the extreme; I get up between 4 and 5 AM everyday, whether a work day or a day off.
So I'm wondering if any shift workers out there on Fedi have any advice for my first overnights? I'll be working Friday through Sunday, 7 PM to 7 AM the next morning each day. When should I sleep? Should I do anything ahead of time to adjust or get ready? :boost_requested:
From post 5,
Amino acids that are enriched/depleted next to the phospho-site reflect which protein kinase enzymes did the phosphorylation.
Phospho-dawn sees acid-directed sites being phosphorylated (D and E enriched at ZT0),
but by evening it's #CellCycle kinases guided by Proline (P at ZT12-16). 😎
I appear to be awake. Not enough sleep but I’m off now until Tuesday, so I’m not going to stress. All I have to do this afternoon is pootle about, have a restorative bath and read, watch some crap telly and knit. #shiftWork #dayoff
@peterbutler @blogdiva I have Monday off, by chance, but am working Sat and Sun. #shiftwork https://youtu.be/roMXGRzHy1I?si=QrmrjzaPIG1Pcf9A
@maikel
There are days when people achieve everything they set out to do? 😂
Seriously though, on the days I need it #modafinil is great for #alertness
Not every day as they're not cheap (where I am about $2 per pill). I learnt about it from a #MichaelMosley documentary about #sleep You need a #prescription for them though (where I am anyway). It's a #stimulant like #caffeine but without the side-effects, like #jitters
#drowsiness #tiredness #SleepApnea #ShiftWork #JetLag #awake
"We found that exposure to light at night was associated with higher odds of allergic diseases, with the strongest association observed for ALAN exposure, followed by evening #chronotype and exposure to night shift work."
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-024-03291-5
#ALAN #LightPollution #HumanHealth #Allergies #MetaAnalysis #ShiftWork
Despite evidence to the contrary (hello Christmas belly!), I have a gym membership. I joined the gym over a year ago now, with a view to lose weight and also improve my physical fitness. While I do like to get out for regular walks (at a pace the wife describes as just slower than sprinting), I otherwise live a fairly sedentary life, especially when I am at work.
When I first started my membership, I was able to attend a couple of times a week. At £25 a month for membership (I know, bargain!) I decided attending at least twice a week would be good value for money, working out at only a couple of quid per session. With babby coming along this year, my attendance rate has dropped significantly, but I still try and get there once a week to pump some iron (and if you believe that, then I have a bridge to sell you…).
Over the Christmas period I had a week and a half off work with bank holidays and annual leave. Obviously, a lot of that time was taken up with festive family fun, but I tried to timetable in some exercise time in between the gorging. This was made more challenging with the reduced festive opening hours, with the gym closed from the 22nd to 26th and 30th to 1st, and reduced opening hours on the days in between. Even outside of the festive period, my gym is open 7am to 9pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm on Saturday and the much reduced 10am to 4pm on Sunday.
While chatting with my mum at one of the aforementioned festive family fun events, she happened to mention a new 24-hour gym is opening up a few minutes’ walk from her house. While this particular gym is not open yet, it would be far from the first 24-hour gym to open in the UK. On my drive to the office I pass one such gym, and looking at their website I cannot see any evidence they have changed their opening hours to mark the season (of course they do not have to actually have it on their website, my gym had signs up on the door and posts on social media, but short of actually joining the gym near work to get a definitive answer, I have to assume they remained open 24 hours a day).
When I hear about 24-hour gyms, part of me wonders about who is needing to exercise at 3 in the morning. I appreciate people work shifts (I have done a few myself) but usually those people are working in the early hours and not looking for a gym session, leaving me to assume those with insomnia are the most common attendees.
As I was chatting with my mum and thinking about my own gym, I was also thinking about the staff working there and the impact of extended hours on them and their wellbeing. I assume my gym has relatively modest opening hours and early closing times over the Christmas period for the staff. With only 3 days open between the 21st December and 2nd January, it gives them plenty of time to rest and recuperate themselves. I’ve written before about my thoughts on public holidays (and the need to have more of them). My gym at least seems to be getting in the spirit of that post and offering plenty of time off for their employees.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there seemed to be a trend for longer and longer opening hours. Not just gyms, but shops, bars and restaurants were all extending hours. I remember taking drives to the local supermarket during my break on night shifts around 2013 to buy snacks at 2am and not having a problem finding a big supermarket open (except of course on Sundays). The inexorable rise to a 24-hour culture seemed unstoppable.
That is, it seems, until the pandemic came along and did a very good job of halting it. Data from the Office of National Statistics suggests fewer people were working nights in 2022 than in 2016 with large supermarkets in particular leading the way out of the 24 hour race (though annoyingly they are using the time not to give employees well needed rest, but to load up online shopping orders instead…). While we might have been told people appreciate the convenience of extended hour shopping (like we are told we want to have extended GP hours etc.), in reality it seems few people were like me completing the 2am snack run. Maybe, just maybe, most people want to be tucked up in bed in the early hours rather than shopping, and while emergency workers and carers will continue to been needed around the clock, I suspect the guys running the gym can probably be allowed to sleep overnight as well. And all of this is without discussing the harmful effects to someone’s health of working nights.
It might have been more of a challenge to find time to get to the gym over the Christmas period for me, and when I did get there it was busier than usual, but it seems to me they might just be on the right track with reduced opening hours, and a missed gym session here or there is not going to convince me otherwise.
Working 9 to 5? My latest blog post.
The effects of #shiftwork on #sleep are most prominent in young #adults with a lower #education.; a #Netherlands Study
https://indianf.com/night-shift-sleep-disorders-among-shift-workers/#:~:text=Regular%20night%20shifts%20emerge%20as%20a%20sleep%20disruptor%20par%20excellence%2C%20with%20half%20of%20the%20night%20shift%20workers%20reporting%20less%20than%20six%20hours%20of%20sleep%20within%2024%20hours.
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