5 Ways to reduce the effects of jet lag

Did you ever ask the people who often travel long distance and flying time? and you will find that everyone has different ways of overcoming or avoiding jet lag.

In actual fact there are no things that are magical or miracle drug that can reduce jet lag. But there are some things you can do in preparation for departure to help you overcome or eliminate jet lag.
Here are tips to reduce the effects of jet lag;

1. Maintain regular sleep patterns.

Before you travel, you should keep your sleep patterns should not differ from a regular pattern of your life everyday. If you do not follow a consistent routine in the days and weeks before the trip (to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day) then your body’s internal clock will be disrupted, even before you start your journey and your flight will only increase the effect insomnia caused by jet lag.

2. Avoid coffee and alcohol and eating healthy foods.

Healthy food plays an important role in ensuring that you get a good nights sleep and the right balance of grain, protein, fruits and vegetables in the diet is very important.

Alcohol and caffeine are two elements of your diet is very important in relation to jet lag and these should be reduced, or eliminated. Coffee or caffeine when taken at night would tend to speed up your body clock, while in the morning has the opposite effect. Drinking coffee during the day, caffeine has little or no effect on body rhythms.

3. Perform regular exercise.

Regular exercise can significantly improve the consistency, quality and duration of your normal sleep cycle. Some form of aerobic exercise every day, which lasted at least twenty minutes, will go a long way to prepare your body for the journey ahead.

4. Start to slowly adjust the bedtime.

You must begin to “manage” your body clock gradually and slowly adjusting bedtime and wake time in the days before the trip, to bring it into line with the local time at your destination.

If, for example, you usually go to bed at 10 pm and you fly to a country that is four hours ahead, at your normal bedtime the time at your destination will be 2. So, in this case, you have to slowly bring bedtime forward a bit (say fifteen minutes) each night for a week or ten days before your departure. This might mean that immediately prior to leaving you will sleep at say 7:30. However, when you arrive at your destination this will mean that you are now going to bed at 11:30 and that you have to narrow the four-hour time difference to just one-half hours.

5. Reduce the stress in the days before the trip.

One often overlooked factor in jet lag equation is that a lot of stress and this stress is a direct result of the journey itself. Rilek and try to relax during the trip.

So in essence, if you will pull through the journey that will lead to jet lag, so before your trip; keep your sleeping patterns, eating food and drinking a healthy beverage, regular exercise, until the place of destination, immediately adjust your sleep time, and lose your mind that is too heavy before you travel.

These are just some examples of things to keep in mind when planning any long distance trips, with specific measures taken both during your flight, hopefully these tips can reduce the effects of jet lag, or even without the jet lag at all !

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