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Flashes of light may stop jet lag

  • 10-02-2016 12:50am
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    Exposure to short flashes of light at night could help sleeping travellers adjust to new time zones and avoid jet lag, according to US scientists.

    The light beams travel through the eyelids and this tells the brain to re-set the body's inner biological clock, the Stanford researchers believe.
    They tested the method in 39 volunteers and found it shifted a person's body clock by about two hours.

    An hour of the flashlight therapy was enough to achieve this effect.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35523024


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    I hope so....... my body doesn't know when or where it is....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,221 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    So the key is fly towards thunderstorms at night and you'll have no jetlag!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    I hope that this isn't put in for all passengers, as it would seem that we'd end up with the choice of minimising jet lag, but at the risk of maybe triggering a photo sensitive epilepsy incident in a susceptible passenger. Oh Joy!

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    First thing I thought was : What if it triggers epilepsy (As Irish Steve said above).


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