Evaluation of environmental, social, and behavioral modulations of the circadian phase of dancers trained in shifts

ABSTRACT: Summary The interplay of environmental, social, and behavioral factors influencing human circadian phase in ecological conditions remains elusive. The Uruguayan national dance school END-SODRE operating in two shifts (morning: 8:30–12:30 and night: 20:00–24:00) allowed us to evaluate how social demands, chronotype, environmental light, physical activity, and sleep patterns affected individual circadian phase measured by the onset of the nocturnal increase of melatonin (DLMO) in a single study. The DLMO was 1.5 h earlier in morning-shift dancers (n = 7) compared to night-shift dancers (n = 11). Sleep time and chronotype (only in night-shift dancers) were associated with the circadian phase. In training days, during each participant’s phase-advance and phase-delay time windows, light exposure was similar between morning and night-shift dancers and did not correlate with DLMO. In contrast, the time spent in moderate-vigorous physical activity during each participant’s phase-lag time window was higher in night-shift dancers than in morning-shift dancers and positively correlated with DLMO. Graphical abstract Highlights • Circadian phase was earlier in morning than in night dancers in real-life conditions• Sleep time (and night-shift chronotypes) correlated with the circadian phase• In the phase-advance and phase-lag windows, light was not associated with DLMO• In the phase-lag time window, the longer the intense exercise the later the phase Biological sciences; Physiology; Neuroscience; Chronobiology.

SUBMITTER: Coirolo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9272370 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature