Shift work and Epithalon — does a pulsed peptide help disrupted circadian?
18 posts
Night shift nurse. Rotating. Sleep is a mess. Caffeine management is a mess. Oura numbers look like a scribble.
Curious if anyone in this position has tried Epithalon specifically for shift work. The idea being that the pineal nudge might help anchor something even when the schedule won't cooperate.
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32 posts
Mixed bag. Epithalon may help sleep quality when you do sleep but it won't fix a fundamentally chaotic schedule. The bigger levers for shift work are bright light timing, strict dark-room discipline during sleep, and not trying to "flip back" on your 2 days off.
36 posts
I'd still try it — the pulsed nature (10 days, twice yearly) is compatible with any schedule. Just don't expect it to be a fix for the shift work itself.
22 posts
Blue-blocker glasses at the end of a night shift did more for me than any peptide. Boring answer.
7 posts
Not a shift worker but the blue-blocker + dark room + 0.3mg melatonin combo works for red-eye flights too. Peptide-free.