Melatonin levels and health

[Guest guest]

This article on light and health states that breast cancer rates are higher in women who do shift work which affects their melatonin levels..........

Artificial Illumination Can Affect More Than Your Mental Health. As Daylight Saving Time Comes to an End, What Happens to Our Internal Clocks?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102602479.html

[Guest guest]

Wouldn't shift work also affect vitamin D levels in these women?

According to this study, low vitamin D levels are associated with BC:

http://www.snipurl.com/vitd_bc

Diane

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> This article on light and health states that breast cancer rates are

higher

> in women who do shift work which affects their melatonin

levels..........

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> Artificial Illumination Can Affect More Than Your Mental Health. As

Daylight

> Saving Time Comes to an End, What Happens to Our Internal Clocks?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102602

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