The Shift Doctor — Our Story
Hey, we're Zak and Caitlin.
Between us, we've spent 15 years working schedules most people would never choose.
Zak spent a decade in oil and gas. 12-hour nights, offshore rotations, weeks where your body clock never gets to adjust. Caitlin spent 5 years as cabin crew. Constant time zones, long-haul nights, early starts stacked on late finishes.
Different industries. The same relentless cost.
The Problem
We both know the fog.
Not tiredness. Something heavier. The kind that follows you into your days off and won't lift. The quiet distance between who you were before shift work, sharper, more present, and who you are now.
We didn't have a name for it then. We do now. The Night Shift Drain. Your brain burning through the chemicals behind focus faster than it can replace them, because the replacing happens in sleep you're not getting.
Most people who work nights stop expecting to feel normal. They just cope. We did that for years.
What We Tried
Coffee. More coffee. Willpower.
Supplements built for people who slept last night and wanted to think a little faster. Energy drinks that worked for an hour and cost you three.
All of it made for someone else's starting point. Not for a brain already running on empty before the shift begins.