The Best Time to Exercise when Working Night Shift

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Exercise

For shift workers, timing is everything. We need to consider this as we structure our days.

In that vein, I tackle a common question among night shifters: When should I exercise?

Night shift workers: When to exercise… and when not to | HealthShift

 

Masks at Home?

A new study out of China suggests that wearing masks at home can reduce the risk of frontline healthcare workers transmitting SARS-CoV-2 infection to their families. But the benefits might not outweigh the costs.

“I think by far the best way for healthcare professionals to protect their families is to carefully employ appropriate infection prevention measures at work,” said Mark E. Rupp, MD, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. “The combination of administrative interventions, engineering improvements, and personal protective equipment is very effective in preventing SARS-CoV-2 acquisition in the workplace.”

Should Healthcare Workers Wear Masks at Home? | Medscape

 

Don’t Fear the Placebo

The placebo effect is real. But if patients know there are no active ingredients, will they still benefit? It turns out yes. New evidence shows that simply believing a treatment can heal can lead to changes in how the brain reacts to emotional information.

Placebos Prove Powerful Even When People Know They’re Taking One | Neuroscience News

 

Rethinking Relationships

Researchers pooled data from 43 separate studies, totalling 11,196 couples, and looked for the attributes that were most tightly tied to relationship quality.

It really seems that having a great relationship is less about finding the perfect partner or changing your current partner, and more about building that relationship itself – setting up the conditions that will allow the relationship to flourish

Landmark study on 11,196 couples pinpoints what dating apps get so wrong | Inverse

 

Earning Wisdom

If wisdom was as simple to acquire as reading, we’d all be wealthy and happy. Others help you but they can’t do the work for you. Owning wisdom for oneself requires a discipline the promiscuous consumer of it does not share.

Thinking For Oneself | Farnham Street

 

Weighing on the Mind

As a person’s weight goes up, all regions of the brain go down in activity and blood flow.

Low cerebral blood flow is the #1 brain imaging predictor that a person will develop Alzheimer’s disease. It is also associated with depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, addiction, suicide, and other conditions.

“This study shows that being overweight or obese seriously impacts brain activity and increases the risk for Alzheimer’s disease as well as many other psychiatric and cognitive conditions,”

Body Weight Has Surprising and Alarming Impact on Brain Function | Neuroscience News

 

On Emergency Funds

An ideal situation likely has every American family with at least a year of living expenses stowed away in savings. The problem is that we don’t live in an ideal world. Even before coronavirus, 80% of Americans lived paycheck to paycheck, meaning that missing a single paycheck would lead directly to missing bills and juggling finances. Telling someone in that situation to sock away a year’s worth of living expenses is like telling someone going on their first hike to go climb Mount Everest.

The 7 Most Common Personal Finance Questions, Answered | The Simple Dollar

 

Stay healthy-

Jason Glenn

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