6 easy techniques to cope with night shift work -without any expensive doctors or medicine!Written by Ebe Heng
People working night shift poses a huge challenge for their sleeping system, because of improper light exposure/ activity levels. The exposure to light sets our body temperature rhythm and controls our melatonin levels. If you work a night shift, you're remaining active while your body thinks it's time to sleep.This put a strain on your sleeping system, and it's also difficult on your emotional life as it limits your social activities with friends and family. And because of lack of light during work, many night shift workers feels drowsy during work, some night shift workers even doze off when driving home in their cars. Highlighted below are some recommendations for you to get quality sleep and feel less drowsy during work. 1. Routine Maintaining a "regular sleping schedule during weekends is important. By sleeping same way during weekend that you do during weekdays, you ensure that your body temperature rhythm becomes adjusted to this setting, you'll get better sleep and higher energy levels in long run. 2. Short nap Due lack of sunlight in your schedule, your body will try to sleep longer than other people. But chances are you still want to interact with your love ones during day, so if you still feel un-rested and drowsy after your sleep, take a short 10-45 minute nap during day. The brief period of stage 2 sleep will charge you physically -allowing you to stay more alert during day. 3. Exercise before work Exercise will create a rise in your body temperature rhythm, this makes you more awake and alert during work. As you experienced high temperature at work, you will get low temperature after work, that will make you easier to fall asleep and sleep deeply.
| | Fighting Age with DHEAWritten by J. Bowler
DHEA is another controversial antiaging hormone. However, unlike Human Growth Hormone (HGH) there have been more studies done, but with often conflicting results.DHEA is a naturally occurring steroid hormone that is a precursor to male hormone testosterone and female hormone estrogen. There seems to be little dispute that DHEA levels steadily decline as we age, so that by age of 70 a person is only producing about 20% as he did in his teens or 20’s. Proponents of supplemental DHEA claim that taking hormone will improve your memory, increase libido, improve muscle tone and stamina, reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue, rejuvenate cells leading to firmer, less wrinkled skin, add sheen and strength to damaged hair and nails and help with weight control. A German study done in late 90’s showed that women who took DHEA for four months were less likely to be depressed, anxious or hostile and more likely to have sexual thoughts and enjoy sex. These results seemed to confirm other studies that DHEA can effect moods and perhaps reduce depression. It might also aid in treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome. However two studies in 2003 gave contradictory results as far as effect of hormone on heart disease and doctors are very worried that hormone might, in fact, worsen heart conditions.
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