Comments on: Sleep, Oh Sleep: Lights Out http://www.dirttime.org/2010/02/09/sleepohsleeplightsout/ exploring food, nature studies and herbal medicine--urbanites welcome! Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:01:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: yael http://www.dirttime.org/2010/02/09/sleepohsleeplightsout/comment-page-1/#comment-98531 yael Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:23:04 +0000 http://www.dirttime.org/?p=450#comment-98531 My boyfriend had the same problem--for years--after working the night shift while putting himself through grad school. I don't think any herb could help with the problems of shift work. It causes serious endocrine dysregulation and sleep debt. I'll tough on this a little more sometime this week or next. Thanks for the comment. And I agree that more hours of sleep is a good first step before adjusting time of sleep. My boyfriend had the same problem–for years–after working the night shift while putting himself through grad school. I don’t think any herb could help with the problems of shift work. It causes serious endocrine dysregulation and sleep debt. I’ll tough on this a little more sometime this week or next. Thanks for the comment. And I agree that more hours of sleep is a good first step before adjusting time of sleep.

]]> By: JimmyTH http://www.dirttime.org/2010/02/09/sleepohsleeplightsout/comment-page-1/#comment-98193 JimmyTH Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:39:23 +0000 http://www.dirttime.org/?p=450#comment-98193 Both of us worked at night for years and two years after quitting our night shift jobs we still have problems adapting to a normal schedule. Since we work for ourselves and can pick our hours we stayed on the night mode for a long time, trying to shift gradually back to normal without success. We seem to be doing ok now, but what worked for us was sleeping later day by day rather than getting up earlier day by day. Within a week we had slept our way forward on the clock to a normal schedule. Nice article, people aren't aware of the health effects of night work and sleep deprivation, most of us have it to some degree. Both of us worked at night for years and two years after quitting our night shift jobs we still have problems adapting to a normal schedule. Since we work for ourselves and can pick our hours we stayed on the night mode for a long time, trying to shift gradually back to normal without success. We seem to be doing ok now, but what worked for us was sleeping later day by day rather than getting up earlier day by day. Within a week we had slept our way forward on the clock to a normal schedule.

Nice article, people aren’t aware of the health effects of night work and sleep deprivation, most of us have it to some degree.

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