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How to Beat Jet Lag
As ultra-long-haul routes take flight, plane-lighting hacks and meal planning could help passengers recover faster.
“Even reducing jet lag by a day improves the productivity and well-being of so many people,” says Svetlana Postnova, a professor of neurophysics at the University of Sydney, speaking from over 10,000 miles and 10 time zones away. “We wanted to see if meal timing could prepare the body for jet lag or shift work, in the same way that people use light and melatonin,” says lead author Jonathan Johnston, a professor of chronobiology and integrative physiology at the University of Surrey. Select Qantas passengers, in exchange for frequent flyer points, wear wristbands that monitor their movements, light exposure, skin temperature, and glucose levels.
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