This temperature increases through the day. It reaches the lower level in the early hours of the morning and reaches the maximum level late in the afternoon. The tendency to fall asleep and stay asleep occurs during the decreasing phase of the temperature circadian rhythm between midnight and 4am. As the body temperature rises, it is more difficult to stay asleep. This is one of the reasons why night workers who try to fall asleep at 8am find it very difficult and also find it difficult to remain asleep through the day.
A person working night shift, which causes disruption to the circadian rhythm, is at greater risk of various disorders, accidents and misfortunes, including:. Shiftworkers get, on average, two to three hours less sleep than other workers. They often sleep though the day in two split periods, a few hours in the morning and then an hour or so before going to work at night.
Night workers can find it difficult sleeping during the day particularly in Australia. The best rotating shift pattern is still undecided.
For the most people, rotating forward through day, afternoon and night shift is better than backwards night, afternoon then day. The frequency of rotation is also controversial. Some people advocate prolonged rotation, such as two to three weeks. Others advocate short rotations of two to three days. Both have advantages and disadvantages. It takes about 10 days for the body to adjust to night shift work. However, it is common for night shift workers to revert to daytime routines for a day or two during days off, which tends to make the circadian rhythm unstable.
The amount of hours 8-hour versus hour shifts is also controversial. Another risk to sleep is when a worker on seven hour shifts a fortnight uses their free time for another, almost full-time job. A proportion of shiftworkers may have marked daytime sleepiness, called Shift Work Sleep Disorder. In certain circumstances, they may be helped by careful use of stimulant therapy, on the advice of their doctor. This page has been produced in consultation with and approved by:.
This occurred even though the biological clock in their brains had only shifted by two hours as the body slowly adjusted to the irregular sleep-wake cycle. Importantly for disease research, two of the metabolites that changed rhythms in the night shift workers have been associated with chronic kidney disease. As peripheral internal clocks tell the pancreas when to release insulin and the liver when to stop processing glycogen and start metabolising fat, this discovery of signals that are out of sync could help scientists to understand the mechanism behind the increased risk of disease in many shift workers.
Although human bodies have evolved to sleep in the dark, our modern economy keeps going even when the sun goes down. This research opens up new theories around how behaviour changes, such as adjusting meal and sleep times to help to minimise metabolic disruption, could be used to survive in a world that needs us to work around the clock. Source: NZ Herald.
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