subject: Jet Lag Is Awesome [print this page] Jet Lag is what happens when your circadian rhythms, the rhythms of your body that keeps it awake during the day, loses their synchronization with the world, usually due to air travel. But there are some benefits.
Jet lag effects passenger who travel through a number of time zones in quick succession, making them either feel very tired when they should be awake for passenger on flights from Dublin to Boston, very awake when they should in fact be sleeping. It affects some people substantially more than others. Some people, who have flown all the way around the world for example to New Zealand from Europe may not feel jet lagged. Other people however can take at least a week to recover and return to normal sleep patterns.
It is made worse by the flight which leaves passengers tired and stiff, and generally unable to function properly. This experience in the plane intensifies the effect of jet lag. Some people help to defeat jet lag by changing their watch to reflect the time zone in which they will be travelling before even leaving for their destination. After flights from San Francisco to Calgary which only travel a short distance, this can be effective at completely negating the effect of jet lag and its associate symptoms.
Other people suggest that avoiding meals on shorter long haul flights is an effective way to the avoid jet lag. By waiting until you land, in the evening in the time of the destination ideally, for example landing at 8PM after flights from Rochester to San Francisco then the body will tell itself to sleep after eating. This is another natural in built thing which goes back to days where we'd need to eat to survive and the body naturally needs food, and keeps people awake, until food is consumed.
