Type: Field / Observational study
Registration: PMCID: PMC6317507
Status: Published
Tags: Adaptation, Circadian, Field study
External URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6317507/
Suggests chronic shift work degrades adaptability of circadian control, reducing night‑shift tolerance.
Real‑world data how timing of light, sleep, meals, and schedules was evident on shift as sleep, alertness, recovery, and metabolic markers for night‑shift workers and night owls. Overall, the data make the schedule itself visible in physiology, not just in how people feel subjectively. For the audience living on night schedules, the key meaning is that the schedule’s timing choices show up in measurable outcomes.
Mechanistic/physiology focus.