The great Roman poet Ovid once said that “the night is sadder than the day. Looks like he was right. For many people who work at night, this phrase is correct because often their work affects their lives. “
A study conducted at the University of Surrey in collaboration with other institutions concluded that night work directly affects the quality of life of those who work during this period, so it is very curious that these hours of the day that we so often associate with love and romance can be really so harmful, however, it is not the same to work and be with your partner Truth?
“The night is beautiful, she’s naked, she has no limits or rules. “Joseph Iron?
There are currently several studies showing that night work is unhealthy, several surveys were conducted: on the one hand with retired Chinese and French employees working in the automotive equipment sector and finally with nurses in South Korea.
The main problem seems to come from lack of sleep or changes in sleep schedules, we live in a society centered on day and light, so people who work at night have to adjust their life to that schedule, otherwise they accumulate fatigue and sleep that can rarely recover.
In all the data in the survey we find factors that have a direct impact on people’s health, and each of them showed different signs of negative effects.
As we have said, the problem directly affects rest, when we work at night and do not fully adjust to the schedule, our biological rhythms are completely unstructured.
Internal sleep and wake management mechanisms are deregulated, so a person’s body working at night suffers from severe dissonance, for example, you eat when your body isn’t ready and you try to sleep during the day, even if you don’t feel tired.
In the end, all this delay leads to a worrying lack of sleep. The worker usually can’t get enough sleep and that’s basically the big problem. People are very tired.
In addition, other factors also affect night workers, such as eating out of business hours and also having more difficulty finding healthy products to consume, many are turning to fast food, which is rapidly impairing our cognitive and physical abilities.
There is no simple solution for night workers, the ideal is to fully adapt life to working hours, but on weekends are a problem because the days off are more complicated, our body is already used to this rhythm and it is difficult to follow the other schedules, thus making our body crazy about the lack of constant schedules.
Also, many people vary according to hours. One week they work at night and another week during the day, which is extremely harmful to the body. The body never definitively adapts to any schedule, according to experts one of the few groups suitable for night work is that of oil rig workers, who without free weekends and sleeping in windowless rooms do not suffer from the problem of the inhabitants of cities and towns.
“If you find a theme that sounds good tonight, touch it every night!?Count Basie?
It is obvious that today employment is necessary for our survival. If we have to work in shifts, we adapt, but it also seems obvious that it harms us both physically and cognitively. In addition, we have not yet found a simple solution to this problem, but at least we have taken the first step: we know that it can negatively affect us. The next step would be to do everything possible to maintain consistent schedules and observe a minimum of rest hours every 24 hours.