Rant:
Studies have shown that people who naturally run a "night shift" are as a whole healthier, more intelligent, more productive, age slower and have better overall health than those who are out and about in peak hours. A large part of this is due to the fact that the sun constantly bombards us with radiation, heat, so forth so forth and depletes us. UV rays put a strain on the immune system, and tanning is nothing more than baking the top layer of the skin. (A tan=dead skin cells.) If you are a "night owl" your immunity doesn't have to fight against Helios all the time and it can devote itself to other battles, namely internal ones.
I am not saying "day people" are dumb or incapable, or that all "night people" are supermen...this is the "as a whole" picture.
I want to say it probably has something to do with our ancestors: at night, someone had to watch over the camps and prepare food and supplies before we had machines and brick houses with steel doors to keep the bears out.
Since going to the night shift, I haven't had the flu in 4+ years. I kicked an infection of the blood on my own. I haven't had to be on allergy pills, antidepressants, or any other such medication. I get more than enough doseage of my Vitamin D from what sunlight pokes through the curtains during the day hours. When it was time to start my HRT, the endocrinologist said I had an "iron system" and put me on full treatment out of the gate. So, at least for me, there is some truth to this "night shift" thing, when it comes to the immune system.
Last I checked, I never needed sunscreen to go out at night. I don't have to chug water almost nonstop at night. I don't have to have sunglasses, and I can wear just about anything I want. I don't need to eat as much, and I hold just about any food down. I have become so accustomed to the night life, I see better in the dark and I can walk 10+ miles easy when the sun goes down. Put me in the day, however, and one would think I am a vampire. I got 15 minutes, tops, and it is always Point A to Point B. I have to pile on the sunscreen and wear sunglasses, and I have to leave my favorite outfit at home. Whenever I run a "day shift" for whatever reason for an extended period of time, I am diagnosed with "insomnia" and have to be put on bottles of sleep aids to put me down at night and stimulants/antidepressants to keep me up during the day. I have to take antacids and other things for me to digest my food. My creative projects go to the crapper.
So, imagine my disgust when a doctor tells me that sleeping during the day and staying up at night is "bad for my health." I went in for sleep apnea, which can hit anyone of any sleep cycle...and when I told the doc of my sleep pattern, he said he would like to get me back on the day shift. I went in to see what I could do about my breathing, NOT to change my metabolic cycle.
Been there, done that. No thanks.
What I am going with this, I guess, is there is a time to listen to doctors and a time to listen to the evidence present in one's life. Putting me, or someone "like me" on the day shift actually requires medication, sunscreen, special clothes, digestive aids to function...whereas the night time I need nothing extra. If I need work? Overnight stocking, graveyard shift janitor, so forth so forth. I have never been a daywalker.
Human beings are not clones, genetically speaking. There is no universal standard for diet requirements, sleep patterns, behavior or mood. Quite frankly I have had enough of people, doctors included, trying to shove me in some box. I had enough of it with my gender identity, "religious" and social preferences, musical tastes, so forth so forth.
Being a loner is not a disorder.
Being a trans is not a disease.
Atheism does not mean one lacks "humanity."
There is nothing wrong with being a night owl.
End rant.
