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Forcing your natural sleep cycle to change - bad idea?

  • 30-09-2012 9:56am
    #1
    whirlpool
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    I know this is a nutrition forum and not a sleep forum, but I think people who are clued in about nutrition are somewhat likely to be educated on this subject to some degree.

    If you are naturally a "night person," but you need to be awake on a "morning person" schedule for work purposes etc, and you force your body to adapt to a "morning person" sleep cycle, do you think this is potentially damaging to your health in the long run?

    I don't know if you've watched the BBC Horizon documentary "The Secret Life Of Your Body Clock" (watch it below), but it definitely gave me the impression that forcing your body clock to change does your health harm in the long run.

    What's your opinion?



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  • #2
    bbam
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    whirlpool wrote: »
    I know this is a nutrition forum and not a sleep forum, but I think people who are clued in about nutrition are somewhat likely to be educated on this subject to some degree.

    If you are naturally a "night person," but you need to be awake on a "morning person" schedule for work purposes etc, and you force your body to adapt to a "morning person" sleep cycle, do you think this is potentially damaging to your health in the long run?

    I don't know if you've watched the BBC Horizon documentary "The Secret Life Of Your Body Clock" (watch it below), but it definitely gave me the impression that forcing your body clock to change does your health harm in the long run.

    What's your opinion?


    I worked 12 hour nights for about 10 years and I would say it has had adverse affects on my health...

    Its three years since I finished and most of the effects seem to have resolved but I feel I will never quite recover from the impact of it..


  • #3
    El_Dangeroso
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    I used to work swing shifts and it played havoc with my mental health, namely depression.

    Having said that I thought that I was a natural night owl, but I feel so much better when I force myself to get up early. Few studies showing that waking up people who have classic depression very early at about 4-5am alleviated symptoms. However I wouldn't be too gung ho about experimenting with this as doing this to someone with bi-polar or bi-polar II can bring on a manic episode.

    Fascinating area of research all the same. I'm a firm believer that if your sleep is crap no amount of perfect diet will make up for it. It really is a huge pillar of our well-being and we need to prioritise it as a society more than we currently do.


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