Welcome to the Blokes in Mining Podcast.
We kick off with the usual chaos — Drew’s FIFO life update, Dave's Australia Day, site yarns, and a listener offering us a free ticket to a Yungblud concert (which raises serious questions about our age).
Then we get into the headline topic we’ve been circling for a while:
What does mining — and shift work — actually do to your body over time?
No scare tactics. No preachy wellness chat. Just straight talk about:
• Night shift and body clock damage
• Heart disease, diabetes and cancer risk
• Sleep debt and chronic fatigue
• Energy drinks, caffeine, painkillers and sleeping tablets
• The mental health toll of isolation and long rosters
And the uncomfortable truth underneath it all:
Modern FIFO life trades money for accelerated biological ageing.
We finish with Dave’s Diary — a final story from site — and bring things back to ground level where this show lives.
If you work in mining, FIFO, or shift work… this ones for you.
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