What is the best remedy for Jet Lag?
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at
6:53 pm
After traveling over 12 Time zones in the last 18 hours, I find myself wide awake at almost 1 am in the morning.
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Filed under: Jet Lag
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Sunlight does help, but what helps me is to stay on the same schedule as my body was used to after I return home for a day. Then that night or the next day, no matter what, force myself to return to a normal schedule (my home schedule as in what time I wake up and go to bed). Following that I am tired as heck because I don’t have enough sleep. But at night, go to bed at around the time (or earlier) because you’re now at home. In 2-3 days I’m good. That helps getting my rhythm back to normal.
If I mess up and fall asleep at an odd time (according to my home time) after returning home, I find it takes me 2 weeks or so to get back into a natural sleep pattern. Those naps taken midday because of being too tired is sure to mess you up more than fix your jet lag. So don’t nap and save it for nighttime.
They say it takes a day for every zone change for you to get back to normal. However you can try to hurry it up by getting outside in daylight as much as possible. The light entering your eyes somehow helps to reset your internal clock.