The Health Risks of Working Night Shifts

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[uppertroupe]

I fast during my shift 7p-7a or if I’m absolutely starving I chug a small can of ginger ale around 3a. Seems like most young nurses are healthy, they either fast or bring their own food but yeah there are some of the older ones who like to bring the good snacks for everyone.

[HopeLife]

The only way I thrive on nights is if I bring my own food that I cooked/prepared, workout and sleep well.

[Gigachadly]

I don’t get this, been working night shift for almost 7 years now, been an athlete all my life starting with basket ball moving to boxing and MMA and now at 25 still doing MMA and some BJJ as well, never noticed a difference in my cardio, health, diet, etc, from going to being awake during the day to awake at night, only difference is I’m waking up and going to class at 5 then work after, instead of eating dinner then going to class and sleeping after. My dad was a ER general surgeon for 30 years almost always did night shifts and even at 75 now he comes on 5 mile jogs with me in the morning time, helps split firewood at our farm, and works out at-least an hour and a half everyday. I honestly think this is a problem that only exists in some peoples head. Everyone in my family besides one of my brothers has green or blue eyes so if there is any truth to that correlation of green / blue eye people being meant to be nocturnal then maybe that contributes but I honestly doubt it seeing as how other family / friends I know without those eye colours still thrive on night shift.

[kubanaid]

Guys this topic "night shifts" is not quite reserched. I met people who spend 25 years working at night shift and they feeling well. So there is not everything that clear.

[robertmorawe]

The research is very skewed and flawed and I'm talking about the Meta analysis that was done from 123 studies (or around there). The research done is essentially focused on rotating shifts, not night shift meaning people who don't have a consistent work schedule. Another flaw is the studies assume that night shift workers lack sleep or flip their sleep schedule constantly. Experiments are always short-term studies on sleep deprivation. There were around 5-8 studies that talked about, in their conclusions, that there is a lack of study on people who keep their night schedule 24/7 and that the health risks involved in these studies are due to poor health choices such as 1) flipping sleep schedules 2) lack of sleep 3) poor dietary choices 4) poor exercise choices and other things of that nature. There are plenty of people who live healthy lives living 24/7 in their night world.

[mrzoukdotcomzouklambadaboo]

Not entirely true, lots of blue eyes and green eyed people are meant to be awake at night. Go speak with couples about who gets up in the middle of the night most and is awake and find out their eye colour.... Most brown eyed people will go to bed within a few hours of Sun down...

[chrisbaker]

There's nothing healthy to eat either, it ain't healthy at all doing it