Sentences with phrase «hour jet lag»

For most of the animal world, that's like having a six - hour jet lag every day, but the spiders instantly adjusted without any problems.

Recovering from a five - hour jet lag even once would be bad enough — but doing it every week?

Not exact matches

The amount of social jet lag that an individual is exposed to can be quantified as the difference between midsleep on free days and midsleep on work days... Over 40 percent of the Central European population suffers from social jet lag of two hours or more, and the internal time of over 15 percent is three hours or more out of synch with external time.

She was super jet - lagged (hey there, 11.5 hour time difference!)

On the jet lag we've got to factor 1 day for every hour time difference to normalise.

Even an hour variation can create «jet lag» and as a result play havoc with your child's body clock.

You can allow a 30 minute variation, but once the wake time begins to waver an hour or more, your child gets thrown into jet lag.

If we let our kids» bedtime slip more than an hour, we risk getting out of sync with our natural biorhythms and can create a sleep problem that feels like jet lag.

In fact, in the book I recommend the General 24 - Hour Protocol for everyone to combat jet lag and to adjust for Daylight Saving Time sleep issues.

I've heard that it takes a day for every hour you change, and when we changed 11 hours it definitely took at least 11 days for him to get over jet lag.

As jet - lag sufferers know, the body's 24 - hour clock delivers a powerful timekeeping signal.

Tamer Elsayed was jet - lagged after a 24 - hour flight from Cairo when his second cousin and a friend picked him up at the Los Angeles airport in December 1993.

With reference to Thomas Smith's letter pondering the impact of jet lag on mental functioning (18 February, p 33), I first encountered problems on a 16 - hour business flight to Japan in 1974.

That combination of depression and terror — not to mention the extreme jet lag from 24 hours of flying — produced a mental state that she now refers to as her McMurdo high.

The negative impacts of jet lag and shift work could be significantly reduced if it were possible to reset our 24 - hour natural circadian or sleep / wake cycle.

SOME species of spider have such short biological clocks it is as if they are jet - lagged by more than 5 hours every morning.

«We then did a jet lag experiment where we placed the mice under light / dark conditions and then advanced the cycle by 6 hours, which is similar to a time shift encountered when travelling from Japan to Alaska.

Another option many travelers swear by is the simple but austere Anti — Jet Lag Fast, which involves not eating at all for 12 to 16 hours before breakfast time in the new time zone.

Fair enough, but please skip the sleeping pills, which can worsen jet lag problems, leaving you groggy and disoriented for hours after landing (particularly if you don't time it right) and increase DVT risk.

Researchers have identified a variety of practices and habits — known as «sleep hygiene» — that can help anyone maximize the hours they spend sleeping, even those whose sleep is affected by insomnia, jet lag, or shift work.

For jet lag or shift work In the pipeline: Two clinical trials have found that a new medication called tasimelteon helped subjects whose sleep pattern had been shifted forward by five hours fall asleep faster and sleep for longer.

For now: While there's no drug specifically approved for helping jet lag sufferers sleep, Dr. Shives explains that taking over-the-counter melatonin «one or two hours before your new adjusted bedtime» for two to four days before an east - bound flight can help your body transition.

I'm still fighting the jet lag, even though I have slept for 12 hours last night!?

If your flight is in the six to nine hour range, I think you really should be trying to sleep as much as possible as to help with jet lag, so you shouldn't have too much extra time to kill.

(But thankfully I don't have to deal with jet lag — as it's only a two - hour difference!)

Granted, the flight from southern Germany to South Africa is still almost 11 hours, but at least I wouldn't have had to deal with any pesky jet lag.

I was jet - lagged, no longer certain of the day and hour given all -LSB-...]

I was tired, jet - lagged, and needed an hour to rest, but my driver took me directly to a square in the town of Pandino where the film crew was assembled and preparing for a shoot.

On arrival at Phoenix, Gus and I calculate that we'll be on US soil for just 25 hours before jumping back on the Heathrow - bound BA 747, which partly explains why we feel the need to maximise our time with the car, despite the almost total jet - lag - induced befuddlement of our brains.

In this case things were made tougher by a schedule that included receiving G - Slate on Friday morning before heading out for a full day of press events and meetings, hopping on a plane first thing Saturday morning to travel cross-country, and waking up Sunday on about three hours sleep, disoriented by jet lag and, yes, in a location with just about zero T - Mobile reception (I'm staying about a block from the Long Island Sound where cell phone reception, in general, is pretty spotty).

Long waits at customs, serious cases of jet lag, and tens of hours in the air can suck the joy out of even the most long - awaited overseas trip.

We especially enjoyed our comfortable junior suite and small patio; the city and ocean views from the 11th floor restaurant; and the 24 - hour room service (ideal for our jet lag).

As we sail away from Singapore where we managed to have 2 fascinating tours in the space of 33 hours despite major jet lag after 28 hours of travel, I can summarize our experience in one word — awesome!

Day 1: Jet Lag Massage — A relaxing and soothing one hour massage with Body Shampoo to eliminate those travel stresses.

It is in the same time zone as the UK, so you'll have no jet lag to contend with, and flight times are just 6 hours from London.

You pay all that money to visit somewhere far enough to get jet lag and then you end up snoozing through all the best of it, often wide awake at the most inopportune hours.

Whether visitors are jet - lagged, suffering from insomnia, catching a red - eye flight or simply putting finishing touches on a last - minute presentation in the wee hours of the morning or night, the M Club Lounge at the Miami airport hotel can accommodate with 24 hour availability.

From the east coast of the US, it's only a 5 hour time difference, vs. the rest of mainland Europe on a 6 hour difference, which can make a huge difference for jet lag.

Later in the day (after this much - jet lagged writer, exhausted from 36 + hours of travel attempted some sleep; Ximena should have some coverage of events in between...), the traveling roadshow of UNEP Executive Direction Achim Steiner + Jairam Ramesh moved on to Delhi Haat.

My wife has very serious jet lag issues, and we were arriving in Venice 72 hours before the cruise sailed.

Although sensitivity to jet lag varies by individual, experienced travelers often claim you can only truly adjust your internal clock by about one hour per day.

I'm admittedly not breaking out my statistical z - score formulas right now as it's now 6:00 am and I've been up for 2 hours as I'm fighting jet lag having just come home from Thanksgiving in Philadelphia, but that increase of 11 sales, while encouraging, doesn't seem to be too much beyond statistical noise (random fluctuations).

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.