The Ingredient That Stops Me: Sucralose, DNA Damage, and the Shift Worker’s Snack Dilemma
- R.E. Hengsterman
- 6 days ago
- 16 min read
Tkach, V. V., Morozova, T. V., Gaivão, I. O. d. M., Miranda, N. G. d., Ivanushko, Y. G., Martins, J. I. F. d. P., & Barros, A. N. (2025).
Sucralose: A Review of Environmental, Oxidative and Genomic Stress.
Nutrients, 17(13), 2199.
Shift workers live in the margins. We are often looking for the hack. Our social lives are a mess. Our diets are a mess. We sleep when the world eats. And somewhere between 02:00 and 05:00, under fluorescent light and cortisol drift, we reach for something that feels like relief.
A protein bar.
A flavored yogurt.
A “zero sugar” energy drink.
And then I flip the label.
There it is.
Sucralose.
Not in massive quantities. Not as the primary ingredient. Just enough to make something taste good without spiking glucose. And that’s where the pause happens.
Because when you spend your professional life understanding physiology, when you’ve written about circadian disruption, β-cell strain, microbiome chaos, endothelial dysfunction, you stop seeing ingredients as neutral.
You see them as signals.
The Study That Raised the Flag
A recent study examining sucralose exposure raised concerns about DNA damage and genotoxicity, specifically related to a metabolite called sucralose-6-acetate. The findings suggested:
Evidence of DNA strand breaks in cultured human cells
Activation of genes associated with oxidative stress and inflammation
Potential disruption of intestinal barrier integrity
That language matters.
DNA damage. Genotoxic. Barrier dysfunction.
Those are not soft words.
But here is where we slow down, because slowing down is what separates fear from analysis.
What the study actually examined:
Cell models (in vitro, not living humans)
Concentrated exposure levels
Metabolite behavior under laboratory conditions
This does not automatically translate into real-world harm at common dietary intake levels.
And that distinction is critical.
Dose Matters. Context Matters More.
One of the most abused concepts in online nutrition discourse is this:
“If something shows potential harm at any level, it must be avoided entirely.”
That’s not how toxicology works.
The central principle of toxicology remains:
The dose makes the poison.
The DNA damage observed occurred under specific laboratory concentrations. The open question is whether typical consumer intake of sucralose-containing foods results in comparable exposure levels in vivo.
Right now, the evidence does not show that common dietary intake of sucralose in approved amounts causes cancer or systemic DNA instability in humans.
But that does not make it metabolically neutral either.
The More Immediate Concern: The Microbiome
If you zoom out from DNA and look at what likely matters more for shift workers in the near term, the issue becomes clearer.
Artificial sweeteners, including sucralose, have been shown in some studies to:
Alter gut microbial composition
Reduce beneficial bacteria
Impair glucose tolerance in susceptible individuals
Influence insulin signaling indirectly
And here’s where shift workers are uniquely vulnerable:
We already have:
Circadian misalignment
Altered feeding windows
Blunted insulin sensitivity
Disrupted microbial rhythms
When your metabolic system is already strained, even small perturbations may carry amplified impact.
That doesn’t mean sucralose is catastrophic.
It means you are not metabolically average.
The Psychological Trap of “Zero Sugar”
Here’s the paradox.
A zero-sugar product feels protective.
For someone fighting insulin resistance, late-night glucose spikes, and metabolic drift, it feels strategic. But sometimes what we’re doing is swapping one signal for another.
We reduce glucose load. But we introduce synthetic sweetness. We avoid caloric spikes. But we potentially alter microbial ecology. Is that trade-off always harmful?
No.
Is it always benign?
Also no.
The Real Question: Are You Hitting Harmful Doses?
Most protein bars, yogurts, or beverages contain sucralose in milligram quantities far below established Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) thresholds.
The current FDA ADI for sucralose is 5 mg/kg body weight per day.
For a 75 kg individual, that’s roughly 375 mg per day.
Most single products contain a fraction of that.
To approach ADI levels, you would need consistent, heavy consumption across multiple products daily.
For the average shift worker using:
One protein bar
One flavored yogurt
One artificially sweetened beverage
You are unlikely to approach established toxic thresholds.
But ADI reflects toxicity thresholds, not microbiome nuance, not circadian vulnerability.
That distinction matters.
So How Do You Choose?
Here’s how I approach it.
Not from fear. Not from ideology. From physiology.
1. Frequency Over Panic
An occasional sucralose-containing product is unlikely to be biologically catastrophic.
Chronic daily exposure across multiple products? That’s where I pause.
2. Watch the Stack
Sucralose hides in:
Protein powders
Bars
Yogurt
Electrolytes
Energy drinks
“Sugar-free” sauces
Individually low dose. Collectively meaningful.
3. Prioritize Whole Food Anchors
The more your nutrition is built on:
Real protein sources
Fiber-rich plants
Stable fats
Whole carbohydrates
The less your system depends on synthetic sweetening to survive the shift.
4. Timing Still Wins
Even more powerful than eliminating sucralose?
Avoiding:
Eating during circadian nadir (2–5 a.m.)
Late meals within 3 hours of sleep
Constant grazing across the shift
Meal timing stabilizes metabolic signaling more reliably than obsessing over a single ingredient.
The Shift Worker Reality
Here’s the part no lab study captures.
At 04:30 a.m., after a code, you are not making decisions in ideal metabolic conditions.
You are exhausted. Cortisol is elevated. Leptin signaling is blunted. Ghrelin is rising.
If a protein bar with sucralose prevents:
A donut
A 700-calorie cafeteria breakfast
A glucose crash
That’s not failure.
That’s triage.
The perfect snack does not exist in the middle of a 12-hour night shift.
What exists are trade-offs.
What I Tell My Readers
If you’re using sucralose occasionally as a tool, you are not destroying your DNA.
If you’re consuming multiple artificially sweetened products daily, it may be worth reassessing.
If you’re metabolically compromised, prediabetic, or struggling with gut symptoms, experiment with reducing synthetic sweeteners and observe.
But do not let fear-based nutrition messaging destabilize you more than the ingredient itself. Shift work is already a biological stressor. You do not need additional psychological stress layered on top.
The Bigger Lever
If you want to meaningfully reduce long-term metabolic risk as a shift worker, focus here first:
Protect sleep windows.
Maintain a 12–16 hour fasting window.
Train muscle consistently.
Eat protein forward.
Avoid large circadian-night meals.
Those levers carry orders of magnitude more impact than one ingredient on a label.
Final Word
Sucralose is not a miracle. It is not a poison. It is a compound.
In high doses? Potentially problematic. In chronic stacking patterns? Worth evaluating. In occasional strategic use? Likely low risk.
The goal is not purity.
The goal is resilience.
And resilience, especially for shift workers, is built on rhythm, not perfection.
Shift workers live in the margins. We are often looking for the hack. Our social lives are a mess. Our diets are a mess. We sleep when the world eats. And somewhere between 02:00 and 05:00, under fluorescent light and cortisol drift, we reach for something that feels like relief.
A protein bar.
A flavored yogurt.
A “zero sugar” energy drink.
And then I flip the label.
There it is.
Sucralose.
Not in massive quantities. Not as the primary ingredient. Just enough to make something taste good without spiking glucose. And that’s where the pause happens.
Because when you spend your professional life understanding physiology, when you’ve written about circadian disruption, β-cell strain, microbiome chaos, endothelial dysfunction, you stop seeing ingredients as neutral.
You see them as signals.
The Study That Raised the Flag
A recent study examining sucralose exposure raised concerns about DNA damage and genotoxicity, specifically related to a metabolite called sucralose-6-acetate. The findings suggested:
Evidence of DNA strand breaks in cultured human cells
Activation of genes associated with oxidative stress and inflammation
Potential disruption of intestinal barrier integrity
That language matters.
DNA damage. Genotoxic. Barrier dysfunction.
Those are not soft words.
But here is where we slow down, because slowing down is what separates fear from analysis.
What the study actually examined:
Cell models (in vitro, not living humans)
Concentrated exposure levels
Metabolite behavior under laboratory conditions
This does not automatically translate into real-world harm at common dietary intake levels.
And that distinction is critical.
Dose Matters. Context Matters More.
One of the most abused concepts in online nutrition discourse is this:
“If something shows potential harm at any level, it must be avoided entirely.”
That’s not how toxicology works.
The central principle of toxicology remains:
The dose makes the poison.
The DNA damage observed occurred under specific laboratory concentrations. The open question is whether typical consumer intake of sucralose-containing foods results in comparable exposure levels in vivo.
Right now, the evidence does not show that common dietary intake of sucralose in approved amounts causes cancer or systemic DNA instability in humans.
But that does not make it metabolically neutral either.
The More Immediate Concern: The Microbiome
If you zoom out from DNA and look at what likely matters more for shift workers in the near term, the issue becomes clearer.
Artificial sweeteners, including sucralose, have been shown in some studies to:
Alter gut microbial composition
Reduce beneficial bacteria
Impair glucose tolerance in susceptible individuals
Influence insulin signaling indirectly
And here’s where shift workers are uniquely vulnerable:
We already have:
Circadian misalignment
Altered feeding windows
Blunted insulin sensitivity
Disrupted microbial rhythms
When your metabolic system is already strained, even small perturbations may carry amplified impact.
That doesn’t mean sucralose is catastrophic.
It means you are not metabolically average.
The Psychological Trap of “Zero Sugar”
Here’s the paradox.
A zero-sugar product feels protective.
For someone fighting insulin resistance, late-night glucose spikes, and metabolic drift, it feels strategic. But sometimes what we’re doing is swapping one signal for another.
We reduce glucose load. But we introduce synthetic sweetness. We avoid caloric spikes. But we potentially alter microbial ecology. Is that trade-off always harmful?
No.
Is it always benign?
Also no.
The Real Question: Are You Hitting Harmful Doses?
Most protein bars, yogurts, or beverages contain sucralose in milligram quantities far below established Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) thresholds.
The current FDA ADI for sucralose is 5 mg/kg body weight per day.
For a 75 kg individual, that’s roughly 375 mg per day.
Most single products contain a fraction of that.
To approach ADI levels, you would need consistent, heavy consumption across multiple products daily.
For the average shift worker using:
One protein bar
One flavored yogurt
One artificially sweetened beverage
You are unlikely to approach established toxic thresholds.
But ADI reflects toxicity thresholds, not microbiome nuance, not circadian vulnerability.
That distinction matters.
So How Do You Choose?
Here’s how I approach it.
Not from fear. Not from ideology. From physiology.
1. Frequency Over Panic
An occasional sucralose-containing product is unlikely to be biologically catastrophic.
Chronic daily exposure across multiple products? That’s where I pause.
2. Watch the Stack
Sucralose hides in:
Protein powders
Bars
Yogurt
Electrolytes
Energy drinks
“Sugar-free” sauces
Individually low dose. Collectively meaningful.
3. Prioritize Whole Food Anchors
The more your nutrition is built on:
Real protein sources
Fiber-rich plants
Stable fats
Whole carbohydrates
The less your system depends on synthetic sweetening to survive the shift.
4. Timing Still Wins
Even more powerful than eliminating sucralose?
Avoiding:
Eating during circadian nadir (2–5 a.m.)
Late meals within 3 hours of sleep
Constant grazing across the shift
Meal timing stabilizes metabolic signaling more reliably than obsessing over a single ingredient.
The Shift Worker Reality
Here’s the part no lab study captures.
At 04:30 a.m., after a code, you are not making decisions in ideal metabolic conditions.
You are exhausted. Cortisol is elevated. Leptin signaling is blunted. Ghrelin is rising.
If a protein bar with sucralose prevents:
A donut
A 700-calorie cafeteria breakfast
A glucose crash
That’s not failure.
That’s triage.
The perfect snack does not exist in the middle of a 12-hour night shift.
What exists are trade-offs.
What I Tell My Readers
If you’re using sucralose occasionally as a tool, you are not destroying your DNA.
If you’re consuming multiple artificially sweetened products daily, it may be worth reassessing.
If you’re metabolically compromised, prediabetic, or struggling with gut symptoms, experiment with reducing synthetic sweeteners and observe.
But do not let fear-based nutrition messaging destabilize you more than the ingredient itself. Shift work is already a biological stressor. You do not need additional psychological stress layered on top.
The Bigger Lever
If you want to meaningfully reduce long-term metabolic risk as a shift worker, focus here first:
Protect sleep windows.
Maintain a 12–16 hour fasting window.
Train muscle consistently.
Eat protein forward.
Avoid large circadian-night meals.
Those levers carry orders of magnitude more impact than one ingredient on a label.
Final Word
Sucralose is not a miracle. It is not a poison. It is a compound.
In high doses? Potentially problematic. In chronic stacking patterns? Worth evaluating. In occasional strategic use? Likely low risk.
The goal is not purity.
The goal is resilience.
And resilience, especially for shift workers, is built on rhythm, not perfection.
Shift workers live in the margins. We are often looking for the hack. Our social lives are a mess. Our diets are a mess. We sleep when the world eats. And somewhere between 02:00 and 05:00, under fluorescent light and cortisol drift, we reach for something that feels like relief.
A protein bar.
A flavored yogurt.
A “zero sugar” energy drink.
And then I flip the label.
There it is.
Sucralose.
Not in massive quantities. Not as the primary ingredient. Just enough to make something taste good without spiking glucose. And that’s where the pause happens.
Because when you spend your professional life understanding physiology, when you’ve written about circadian disruption, β-cell strain, microbiome chaos, endothelial dysfunction, you stop seeing ingredients as neutral.
You see them as signals.
The Study That Raised the Flag
A recent study examining sucralose exposure raised concerns about DNA damage and genotoxicity, specifically related to a metabolite called sucralose-6-acetate. The findings suggested:
Evidence of DNA strand breaks in cultured human cells
Activation of genes associated with oxidative stress and inflammation
Potential disruption of intestinal barrier integrity
That language matters.
DNA damage. Genotoxic. Barrier dysfunction.
Those are not soft words.
But here is where we slow down, because slowing down is what separates fear from analysis.
What the study actually examined:
Cell models (in vitro, not living humans)
Concentrated exposure levels
Metabolite behavior under laboratory conditions
This does not automatically translate into real-world harm at common dietary intake levels.
And that distinction is critical.
Dose Matters. Context Matters More.
One of the most abused concepts in online nutrition discourse is this:
“If something shows potential harm at any level, it must be avoided entirely.”
That’s not how toxicology works.
The central principle of toxicology remains:
The dose makes the poison.
The DNA damage observed occurred under specific laboratory concentrations. The open question is whether typical consumer intake of sucralose-containing foods results in comparable exposure levels in vivo.
Right now, the evidence does not show that common dietary intake of sucralose in approved amounts causes cancer or systemic DNA instability in humans.
But that does not make it metabolically neutral either.
The More Immediate Concern: The Microbiome
If you zoom out from DNA and look at what likely matters more for shift workers in the near term, the issue becomes clearer.
Artificial sweeteners, including sucralose, have been shown in some studies to:
Alter gut microbial composition
Reduce beneficial bacteria
Impair glucose tolerance in susceptible individuals
Influence insulin signaling indirectly
And here’s where shift workers are uniquely vulnerable:
We already have:
Circadian misalignment
Altered feeding windows
Blunted insulin sensitivity
Disrupted microbial rhythms
When your metabolic system is already strained, even small perturbations may carry amplified impact.
That doesn’t mean sucralose is catastrophic.
It means you are not metabolically average.
The Psychological Trap of “Zero Sugar”
Here’s the paradox.
A zero-sugar product feels protective.
For someone fighting insulin resistance, late-night glucose spikes, and metabolic drift, it feels strategic. But sometimes what we’re doing is swapping one signal for another.
We reduce glucose load. But we introduce synthetic sweetness. We avoid caloric spikes. But we potentially alter microbial ecology. Is that trade-off always harmful?
No.
Is it always benign?
Also no.
The Real Question: Are You Hitting Harmful Doses?
Most protein bars, yogurts, or beverages contain sucralose in milligram quantities far below established Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) thresholds.
The current FDA ADI for sucralose is 5 mg/kg body weight per day.
For a 75 kg individual, that’s roughly 375 mg per day.
Most single products contain a fraction of that.
To approach ADI levels, you would need consistent, heavy consumption across multiple products daily.
For the average shift worker using:
One protein bar
One flavored yogurt
One artificially sweetened beverage
You are unlikely to approach established toxic thresholds.
But ADI reflects toxicity thresholds, not microbiome nuance, not circadian vulnerability.
That distinction matters.
So How Do You Choose?
Here’s how I approach it.
Not from fear. Not from ideology. From physiology.
1. Frequency Over Panic
An occasional sucralose-containing product is unlikely to be biologically catastrophic.
Chronic daily exposure across multiple products? That’s where I pause.
2. Watch the Stack
Sucralose hides in:
Protein powders
Bars
Yogurt
Electrolytes
Energy drinks
“Sugar-free” sauces
Individually low dose. Collectively meaningful.
3. Prioritize Whole Food Anchors
The more your nutrition is built on:
Real protein sources
Fiber-rich plants
Stable fats
Whole carbohydrates
The less your system depends on synthetic sweetening to survive the shift.
4. Timing Still Wins
Even more powerful than eliminating sucralose?
Avoiding:
Eating during circadian nadir (2–5 a.m.)
Late meals within 3 hours of sleep
Constant grazing across the shift
Meal timing stabilizes metabolic signaling more reliably than obsessing over a single ingredient.
The Shift Worker Reality
Here’s the part no lab study captures.
At 04:30 a.m., after a code, you are not making decisions in ideal metabolic conditions.
You are exhausted. Cortisol is elevated. Leptin signaling is blunted. Ghrelin is rising.
If a protein bar with sucralose prevents:
A donut
A 700-calorie cafeteria breakfast
A glucose crash
That’s not failure.
That’s triage.
The perfect snack does not exist in the middle of a 12-hour night shift.
What exists are trade-offs.
What I Tell My Readers
If you’re using sucralose occasionally as a tool, you are not destroying your DNA.
If you’re consuming multiple artificially sweetened products daily, it may be worth reassessing.
If you’re metabolically compromised, prediabetic, or struggling with gut symptoms, experiment with reducing synthetic sweeteners and observe.
But do not let fear-based nutrition messaging destabilize you more than the ingredient itself. Shift work is already a biological stressor. You do not need additional psychological stress layered on top.
The Bigger Lever
If you want to meaningfully reduce long-term metabolic risk as a shift worker, focus here first:
Protect sleep windows.
Maintain a 12–16 hour fasting window.
Train muscle consistently.
Eat protein forward.
Avoid large circadian-night meals.
Those levers carry orders of magnitude more impact than one ingredient on a label.
Shift workers live in the margins. We are often looking for the hack. Our social lives are a mess. Our diets are a mess. We sleep when the world eats. And somewhere between 02:00 and 05:00, under fluorescent light and cortisol drift, we reach for something that feels like relief.
A protein bar.
A flavored yogurt.
A “zero sugar” energy drink.
And then I flip the label.
There it is.
Sucralose.
Not in massive quantities. Not as the primary ingredient. Just enough to make something taste good without spiking glucose. And that’s where the pause happens.
Because when you spend your professional life understanding physiology, when you’ve written about circadian disruption, β-cell strain, microbiome chaos, endothelial dysfunction, you stop seeing ingredients as neutral.
You see them as signals.
The Study That Raised the Flag
A recent study examining sucralose exposure raised concerns about DNA damage and genotoxicity, specifically related to a metabolite called sucralose-6-acetate. The findings suggested:
Evidence of DNA strand breaks in cultured human cells
Activation of genes associated with oxidative stress and inflammation
Potential disruption of intestinal barrier integrity
That language matters.
DNA damage. Genotoxic. Barrier dysfunction.
Those are not soft words.
But here is where we slow down, because slowing down is what separates fear from analysis.
What the study actually examined:
Cell models (in vitro, not living humans)
Concentrated exposure levels
Metabolite behavior under laboratory conditions
This does not automatically translate into real-world harm at common dietary intake levels.
And that distinction is critical.
Dose Matters. Context Matters More.
One of the most abused concepts in online nutrition discourse is this:
“If something shows potential harm at any level, it must be avoided entirely.”
That’s not how toxicology works.
The central principle of toxicology remains:
The dose makes the poison.
The DNA damage observed occurred under specific laboratory concentrations. The open question is whether typical consumer intake of sucralose-containing foods results in comparable exposure levels in vivo.
Right now, the evidence does not show that common dietary intake of sucralose in approved amounts causes cancer or systemic DNA instability in humans.
But that does not make it metabolically neutral either.
The More Immediate Concern: The Microbiome
If you zoom out from DNA and look at what likely matters more for shift workers in the near term, the issue becomes clearer.
Artificial sweeteners, including sucralose, have been shown in some studies to:
Alter gut microbial composition
Reduce beneficial bacteria
Impair glucose tolerance in susceptible individuals
Influence insulin signaling indirectly
And here’s where shift workers are uniquely vulnerable:
We already have:
Circadian misalignment
Altered feeding windows
Blunted insulin sensitivity
Disrupted microbial rhythms
When your metabolic system is already strained, even small perturbations may carry amplified impact.
That doesn’t mean sucralose is catastrophic.
It means you are not metabolically average.
The Psychological Trap of “Zero Sugar”
Here’s the paradox.
A zero-sugar product feels protective.
For someone fighting insulin resistance, late-night glucose spikes, and metabolic drift, it feels strategic. But sometimes what we’re doing is swapping one signal for another.
We reduce glucose load. But we introduce synthetic sweetness. We avoid caloric spikes. But we potentially alter microbial ecology. Is that trade-off always harmful?
No.
Is it always benign?
Also no.
The Real Question: Are You Hitting Harmful Doses?
Most protein bars, yogurts, or beverages contain sucralose in milligram quantities far below established Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) thresholds.
The current FDA ADI for sucralose is 5 mg/kg body weight per day.
For a 75 kg individual, that’s roughly 375 mg per day.
Most single products contain a fraction of that.
To approach ADI levels, you would need consistent, heavy consumption across multiple products daily.
For the average shift worker using:
One protein bar
One flavored yogurt
One artificially sweetened beverage
You are unlikely to approach established toxic thresholds.
But ADI reflects toxicity thresholds, not microbiome nuance, not circadian vulnerability.
That distinction matters.
So How Do You Choose?
Here’s how I approach it.
Not from fear. Not from ideology. From physiology.
1. Frequency Over Panic
An occasional sucralose-containing product is unlikely to be biologically catastrophic.
Chronic daily exposure across multiple products? That’s where I pause.
2. Watch the Stack
Sucralose hides in:
Protein powders
Bars
Yogurt
Electrolytes
Energy drinks
“Sugar-free” sauces
Individually low dose. Collectively meaningful.
3. Prioritize Whole Food Anchors
The more your nutrition is built on:
Real protein sources
Fiber-rich plants
Stable fats
Whole carbohydrates
The less your system depends on synthetic sweetening to survive the shift.
4. Timing Still Wins
Even more powerful than eliminating sucralose?
Avoiding:
Eating during circadian nadir (2–5 a.m.)
Late meals within 3 hours of sleep
Constant grazing across the shift
Meal timing stabilizes metabolic signaling more reliably than obsessing over a single ingredient.
The Shift Worker Reality
Here’s the part no lab study captures.
At 04:30 a.m., after a code, you are not making decisions in ideal metabolic conditions.
You are exhausted. Cortisol is elevated. Leptin signaling is blunted. Ghrelin is rising.
If a protein bar with sucralose prevents:
A donut
A 700-calorie cafeteria breakfast
A glucose crash
That’s not failure.
That’s triage.
The perfect snack does not exist in the middle of a 12-hour night shift.
What exists are trade-offs.
What I Tell My Readers
If you’re using sucralose occasionally as a tool, you are not destroying your DNA.
If you’re consuming multiple artificially sweetened products daily, it may be worth reassessing.
If you’re metabolically compromised, prediabetic, or struggling with gut symptoms, experiment with reducing synthetic sweeteners and observe.
But do not let fear-based nutrition messaging destabilize you more than the ingredient itself. Shift work is already a biological stressor. You do not need additional psychological stress layered on top.
The Bigger Lever
If you want to meaningfully reduce long-term metabolic risk as a shift worker, focus here first:
Protect sleep windows.
Maintain a 12–16 hour fasting window.
Train muscle consistently.
Eat protein forward.
Avoid large circadian-night meals.
Those levers carry orders of magnitude more impact than one ingredient on a label.
Final Word
Sucralose is not a miracle. It is not a poison. It is a compound.
In high doses? Potentially problematic. In chronic stacking patterns? Worth evaluating. In occasional strategic use? Likely low risk.
The goal is not purity.
The goal is resilience.
And resilience, especially for shift workers, is built on rhythm, not perfection.
Author: R.E. Hengsterman, MSN, MA, M.E., RN
Registered nurse, night-shift administrator, and author of The Shift Worker’s Paradox
For educational purposes only. Not medical advice.
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