The study conducted by the researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston stemmed from observing 21 healthy persons in a completely controlled environment for six weeks, controlling their diet, activities and hours of sleep and sleep disturbance.
The study started and ended with participants sleeping an optimal 10 hours a nigh, but in three weeks interval, participants were requested to sleep at all different times of day and night, ensuring that they got just five and a half hours of sleep a day.
Thereby, the researchers concluded that prolonged sleep restriction along with sleep disturbance lessened the participant’s resting metabolic rate and increased glucose concentrations in the blood after meals due to lower insulin secretion by the pancreas.
Said effects could translate into weigh gain and a risk of diabetes. Therefore, in a study published in the journal Science Translation Medicine, it was explained how graveyard shift workers may suffer from disruptions to their “internal biological clock” or the so called circadian rhythm.
Also a neurologists and lead study author Orfeu M. Buxton, affirmed the such results support the finding from several researches showing that in people a pre-diabetic condition, graveyard shift workers are more likely to have a full-progress on diabetes than day shift workers.
Oftentimes, graveyard workers find it hard to sleep during the day, therefore, they can encounter both circadian disruption working at night time and inadequate sleep during day time, added Buxton.
Furthermore, Buxton noted that evidence is clear that having the right amount of sleep is important for health and that for best effect, sleep should be done at night.
If staying up awake all night and sleeping during day time cannot be avoided due to a daily job routine, it is advisable to take natural sleep aid to help you from falling asleep at day time.
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