Thursday, August 18, 2022

Creation Moment 8/19/2022 - Your Delicate Created Balance of sleep

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew 10:30
 
"According to a recent study published in the journal Neurobiology
of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
, the negative consequences of shift work might last for a long time, even after returning to a regular schedule.
Shift work, especially rotating shift work, confuses our body clocks and that has important ramifications in terms of our health and well-being and connection to human disease,” said David Earnest, professor. “When our internal body clocks are synchronized properly, they coordinate all our biological processes to occur at the right time of day or night
When our body clocks are misaligned, whether through shift work or other disruptions, that provides for changes in physiology, biochemical processes and various behaviors.”
Earnest and colleagues discovered found animal models with rotating shift work schedules had worse stroke outcomes in terms of both brain damage and functional impairments than those with typical 24-hour cycles of day and night. Males had far worse outcomes, with substantially higher fatality rates.
The researchers also observed increased levels of inflammatory mediators from the gut in subjects exposed to a shift work schedule. “We now think that part of the underlying mechanism for what we’re seeing in terms of circadian rhythm disruption causing more severe strokes may involve altered interactions between the brain and gut,” Earnest said."
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