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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Mark Oliver

How do you beat jet lag?

Jetlag: Woman asleep in an airport
Airport blues ... how can you ease the effects of jet lag?

Do you suffer from desynchronosis? You know, chronic tiredness, disorientation, stomach upsets, and stinging red-eyes? Jet lag, as it's more commonly known, can consign you to the zombie zone, usually populated only by new parents.

Ahead of the Lancet medical journal unveiling research tomorrow on a possible cure for jet lag, we'd like you to share your tips for beating it.

There's a fairly obvious and simple one, of course: don't fly. But acknowledging the fact that people do fly to go on holiday, or have to fly for work or to see family members, we'd like to pass on your tips. Do you avoid alcohol and caffeine and max out on tomato juice and water, as recommended on the NHS website? Do you stay up all night before a long flight or starve yourself to trick your body into thinking it's in another time zone? Do you take homeopathic pills or ingest the extract from the bark of a French pine tree for seven days, as advocated by another recent medical survey? Or do you simply hit the sleeping pills?

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