Light Therapy And Melatonin Prove Effective in Lessening Jet Lag

NewsTarget reported that Jet Lag, better known as seconday circadian dysrhythmia , can make you lazy, hazy and crazy.

Jet Lag has been shown to be tremendously disruptive to the body leading up to profound negative health impacts in both performance and maintenance.

But thankfully, The Lancet medical journal offers a recent study that proves melatonin and the regulation of light exposure may be effective in lessening Jet Lag.

Traveling across time zones, particularly east, shakes up the body’s natural body clock and obliterates sleeping rhythm.

This is Jet Lag, and when it ensues, the body is unable to quickly readjust its “circadian rhythms” (physiological processes related to time). Irritability, loss of appetite, digestive problems, menstrual disruptions, lethargy, memory loss, and even short-term psychiatric dysfunctions begin to overtake the traveler, as if being tired wasn’t enough.

Adjusting the body clock is the answer to the problem, and it can be easily fixed, said the study, by ingesting melatonin then waking up with the natural light the next day. Melatonin can induce sleep at an hour the body is usually not able to produce it. Then, appropriate light exposure during the day in your new time zone can naturally readjust the body’s inner “clock.”

How do you get melatonin without using pills? Eat lots and lots of rice. Rice synthesizes melatonin which is binding on human melatonin.