With the diversified trend of modern people’s work and life style, the “nine to five” working mode can not completely summarize the working state of modern people. Some white-collar workers, night shift drivers, 24-hour convenience store employees, freelancers… More and more people have joined the ranks of “night shift people”. Experts point out that behaviors that run counter to natural laws often have potential harm to human health.
First of all, the liver is afraid of staying up late. There is enough evidence that staying up late for a long time will affect the function of the immune system. The physical examination report for the working population who need to take the night shift also shows that the proportion of abnormal liver function is higher than that of ordinary people.
Adults normally fall asleep before 23:00, and enter a deep sleep state from 1 to 3:00 in the morning. This time is the best time for detoxification and blood nourishing of the liver. On the contrary, the immune capacity of the body will decline, and the resistance will also decline. However, if the liver blood is insufficient, the skin will lose its nourishment, which will lead to dryness, loss of elasticity, darkness and dullness. If combined with endocrine disorders, it is easy to cause acne, acne, chloasma, black spots and other problems on the skin (especially the skin of young people). In particular, those “night shift workers” who work in writing or operate computers often have symptoms such as dry eyes, red eyes or pain. The root cause is lack of yin and blood, loss of support for the eyes, plus deficiency of Yin in the liver and kidney, inflammation due to deficiency of fire, and long-term eye fatigue.
This kind of yin deficiency and fire excess is closely related to the common endocrine disorders, immune changes, gastrointestinal dysfunction and so on caused by staying up late.
In addition, “night shift people” often have headache, dizziness, memory decline, low spirits, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, insomnia and dreams.
Therefore, the health problems of “night shift people” cannot be ignored. It has been reported that irregular staying up late is more harmful to health than regular “night shift workers”. Especially for those white-collar workers who sleep late intermittently (irregularly), frequent adjustment of the biological clock will cause worse damage to their bodies. In addition, people who stay up late for a long time are more likely to suffer from cancer, because cancerous cells are produced in cell division, and cell division is mostly carried out in sleep. Staying up late can make the sleep law disordered, which may affect the normal division of cells, leading to cell mutation and cancer cells.
At the same time, I suggest friends of “night shift” to try to adjust their own life rules. When staying up late, you can also supplement more foods with more vitamin C and vitamin B groups. For “night shift people”, we must not ignore health, and defending our health is the most important thing in life.
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