Sleep When the Sun's Up: A Night Shift Worker's Evidence-Graded Guide to Beating Shift Work Sleep Disorder, Resetting Your Circadian Rhythm, and Protecting Your Long-Term Health - Softcover

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You didn’t sign up to trade your health for a paycheck. Shift work did that without asking.

Three-forty in the morning, dead tired, and a stop sign gets run without anyone noticing — not because of one bad night, but twenty years of them stacking up quietly in the background. Long-term shift work links to a measurably higher risk of heart disease, metabolic syndrome, depression, and cancer. Not scare tactics. Numbers, with named studies behind them.

Why does a twenty-minute nap beat an hour-long one? Why does the drive home matter more than the shift itself? Why does eating breakfast at midnight sabotage the whole plan?

This isn’t advice from someone who’s never worked a graveyard shift. It’s twenty years of rotating schedules and a research habit that started the night a stop sign nearly ended badly — built into a plan you can run on three hours of sleep.

Inside, you'll learn:

• The 20-minute nap protocol that outperforms longer naps, and the exact timing that makes it work
• What the current evidence actually says about shift work, heart disease, cancer risk, and metabolic syndrome — graded honestly, not oversold
• The bright-light-and-blackout protocol researchers use to reset a circadian clock stuck on the wrong schedule
• How to survive the drive home after a night shift, including the safety rule most workers ignore
• Meal timing and caffeine cutoffs that blunt shift work’s toll on digestion and weight
• The Karolinska Sleepiness Scale: a 60-second self-check for whether you’re actually fit to drive
• A day-by-day 30-day rollout plan, so you’re not trying to fix everything on night one
• A one-page reference plan for the whole system, built for nights you can’t stop to reread a chapter.

Every claim in this book is graded for how solid the science actually is: well established, promising, or still theory. No miracle fixes. No supplement stack. Just what holds up under a real shift.

Written by Samuel Glover, a health researcher and writer — not a physician — who spent twenty years on rotating and overnight shift schedules before turning to the published research behind what actually helps.

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Outlast the shift. Protect the years after it.

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