Are there any health risks associated with never seeing the daylight?!
Question: I have worked the night shift for the btter part of.... Ehhh.... 12 years... maybe more... I kinda like it. I live in Phx Az so its just to damn hot NOT to be nocturnal... I only see the day for perhaps a half hour and that is from my air conditioned vehicle... is this good or bad or does it not mattah?
Answers: I have worked the night shift for the btter part of.... Ehhh.... 12 years... maybe more... I kinda like it. I live in Phx Az so its just to damn hot NOT to be nocturnal... I only see the day for perhaps a half hour and that is from my air conditioned vehicle... is this good or bad or does it not mattah?
You need a moderate amount of sunlight; too much causes skin damage and where you are, there's a lot of skin cancer. But too little and your body won't make the vitamin D it needs. Getting it from a multivitamin just doesn't seem to be as good as your body making it. And it can screw up your emotions too. (Although you seem pretty chipper.)
Bottom line, a few minutes a day out in the yard wouldn't hurt and would probably help.
Im not expert but taking a few days off work and enjoying the mornings maybe with your family outside would help, especially as summer is coming....
missed you too
I suppose there's a greater than average risk of seasonal affective disorder. This is actually not really unusual here in Canada in the winter months, when we don't get a lot of daylight to begin with. People just get moody, and in extreme cases depressed due to the lack of sunlight.
Garlic allergies and an aversion to all things "holy" could also ensue;-)
no...i'm pretty nocturnal myself.
my family is always trying to get me outside during the...i think they just want to see if i'll burst into flames...lol
I've also been a night shift guy for years, and enjoy it. But, I go to sleep not long after coming home, so I wake in time to catch a few hours of daylight outside, instead of waking just before I have to go to work. Since I take Synthroid, I need a couple of hours for it to take effect before I'm really up and running, so sitting on the porch with a book is good for an hour or so.
Well, vitamin D is essential to being healthy. Exposure to a certain amount of hours per week keeps some cancers away including most skin cancers and breast cancer. Muslim women have the highest breast cancer rate in the world because they are never exposed to sunlight. A little wouldn't hurt. It doesn't take massive amounts to be healthy.