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I did night shift for about 18 years, if you include the years I was a baker and did 3am-11am shift.
It was definitely bad for the body, I think the worst thing for people is that they try to live a dayshift life while on nightshift and that just kills you faster, you sleep 2 or 3 hours so you can live a day life while falling asleep on the job.
If your going to do nights then treat it like the day/night is reversed.
I had the perfect roommate, he had night shifts, he'd do 00:00 to 09:00. He would come home around 10:00 and sleep toll 18:00 and then we'd enjoy our evening together. I'd go to bed and he'd go to work. He'd been doing this for 6 years at that point and it suited him fine and he was healthy as a horse.
I think the thing that worked for him was treating even the weekends like weekday and he'd sleep through most of his Saturday/Sunday daylight.