Ep 163 Circadian Rhythm: Live from Perth, Australia

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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We are coming at you with our very first live episode from Perth, Australia! Here at the 2024 Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists Annual Scientific Conference and Exhibition, occupational hazards and exposures get top billing. And one of the most ubiquitous hazards, experienced by nearly every industry is fatigue, specifically fatigue caused by circadian rhythm disruption. In this very special episode, we explore how our circadian rhythms work and some of the consequences that can emerge when we work against those rhythms, whether that’s because we’re traveling across many time zones or switching to night shift work. We then dig into the history of circadian rhythm research, from how we first learned about these daily patterns to when their disruption became a routine occurrence. Helping us to navigate some of the alarmist headlines (“your screens are ruining your sleep!”) and biohacker claims (“avoid jet lag with this one simple trick!”) is Ian Dunican, PhD. Dr. Dunican is the Director and Chief Adviser of Melius Consulting, a scientific consultancy undertaking research, consulting, and education, and he also hosts and produces the Sleep4Performance podcast. We also bring on Dr. John Iliff, Emergency Physician and Aeromedical Consultant to share his frightening experience with fatigue after a long shift during his training as a physician. Tune in for a fascinating discussion about the rhythms that drive our lives! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/3WwtIAu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.1	Good morning, Aaron's. Good morning, everyone.
0:50.9	And thank you for the invitation to come and share a story that I went through my career.
0:57.0	In 2012 I was an intern back in Dublin in a large teaching hospital.
1:02.0	I was six months after finishing my intern year, aged 23, and I was working in a busy surgical unit.
1:09.0	It was January and I was waking, woken up about
1:13.3	6 a.m. to go and start my journey to work. As I've gone to work, by my mind, it's a Thursday,
1:20.8	I've already undertaken about 36 hours of work within this work week from Monday and I'm about
1:27.2	to go and start on another Thursday.
1:29.3	I feel I'm relatively well rested but I know that I'm not feeling particularly good going in to start a very large shift which I'm going to elaborate on a little bit now.
1:40.3	At 6.30 I arrive into work and I undertake results checking.
1:45.7	We look at all the results of our patients from the day before, recent blood tests, recent
1:50.4	scan results, and ultimately to prepare for the ward round when our surgeons, the consultants
1:56.2	and the senior doctors, will start undertaking, looking at every patient on their list.
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