How to Trick Mother Nature into Letting You Fly Around or Stay Up All Night

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• Personal Author:
  Eastman CI ; Revell VL
• Description:
  Night shift work and rapid transmeridian travel result in a misalignment between circadian rhythms and the new times for sleep, wake, and work, which has health and safety implications for both the individual involved and the general public. Entrainment to the new sleep/wake schedule requires circadian rhythms to be phase-shifted, but this is often slow or impeded. The authors show superimposed light and melatonin PRCs to explain how to appropriately time these zeitgebers to promote circadian adaptation. They review studies in which bright light and melatonin were administered to try to counteract jet lag or to produce circadian adaptation to night work. They demonstrate how jet lag could be prevented entirely if rhythms are shifted before the flight using their preflight plan and discuss the combination of interventions that they now recommend for night shift workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Circadian Rhythm Occupational Health Safety Shift Work Schedule Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders
• Keywords:
  Circadian-rhythms Occupational-health Shift-work Shift-workers Sleep-deprivation Sleep-disorders Worker-health Workers
• ISSN:
  0748-7304
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  353-365
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028904
• Citation:
  J Biol Rhythms 2005 Aug; 20(4):353-365
• Email:
  ceastman@rush.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Work Environment and Workforce: Organization of Work
• Performing Organization:
  Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Biological Rhythms
• End Date:
  20090430
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8361180191410bb4ac009923a8c63655c2ece316ea3b72613ff2f0793eb02f86d6267f2287b3ee5f86f5b6697c895ffc15ece9e2af807a898fcaf334fb0e5253
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/189997/cdc_189997_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 200.87 KB ]