What Does Zircadium Protective Eyewear Do?

Zircadium Protective Eyewear does just as it states; it protects. However, this protection is unlike any other in the industry. While any pair of safety glasses can keep your eyes away from physical harm, only Zircadium products safely prevent melatonin suppression and cortisol elevation and prevent repeated harmful alterations to the biological clock. Certain types of dark sunglasses could be worn to achieve near the same effect, but would be unsafe and impractical for any work environment.

How Do The Glasses Work?

Being exposed to specific wavelengths of light at night causes melatonin suppression, cortisol elevation and harmful alterations to the body’s biological rhythms. Over time, these can lead to many health problems including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, depression, and sleep disorders. We have discovered only a narrow band of wavelength of light is responsible for melatonin and cortisol abnormalities at nighttime. Zircadium Protective Eyewear effectively blocks these wavelengths that cause problems for rotating shift workers, while still allowing maximum light transmission through the custom designed Zircadium lenses.

 

 

Why Are Rotating Shift Workers More Prone To Cancer, Illness, And Accidents?

Numerous biological functions such as hormone secretion, sleep/wake cycle, physical activity, alertness and mood have a circadian rhythm that regulates these processes. These processes occur for precise durations at specific times of the day, closely synchronized to environmental time cues. Light exposure is the strongest environmental time cue, and can alter the timing of these biological functions.

During shift work, light exposure at night causes the body to function during the night as it would during the day. This causes a desynchronization and deregulation of vital biological processes. Over time, this can lead to harmful effects such as uncontrolled cell growth, which may lead to cancer and impair the immune system response. In turn, shift workers are more prone to fall ill. The biological clock also makes the body sleepy and less alert at night; having to work at night increases fatigue, leading to more accidents.

The hormone melatonin is secreted mainly at night and only under darkness. Melatonin helps to protect against various forms of cancer, has antioxidant properties and helps the immune system. Night shift work and light exposure at night suppress melatonin production and deprives the body of numerous protective and beneficial properties melatonin provides. As a result, the World Health Organization declared working rotating shifts a probable carcinogen.