Travel fatigue: Travel can be tiring, even without the risk of jet lag.The continual presence of light interferes with melatonin production. The body produces melatonin, a hormone, in response to dimming light, as a means of preparing for sleep. Sunlight disparities: Excessive light, either from overhead lights, computer screens, or flying above the clouds, can also play a role in jet lag.

You may be sleepy when you arrive where you’re going but you won’t be able to rest properly in the middle of the day. People on jets tend to sleep too much or at the wrong times, due to the lower oxygen levels of high altitudes or out of boredom and lack of physical activity.

Sleep disparities: Travel can interrupt normal sleep patterns.

If you fly to Hawaii from the Eastern Time Zone, you might arrive at 7:00am with your body telling you that it is 1:00pm.

Clock disparities: The basis for jet lag is that your body’s internal clock doesn’t agree with the clock at your destination.

There are several ways in which travel can disrupt the body’s circadian rhythm: Though symptoms vary by individual, the greater the distance traveled, the more likely they are to be severe.

Gastrointestinal upset, including nausea, constipation, and diarrhea.

Difficulty sleeping or problems falling asleep at the wrong times.

What Are the Symptoms of Jet Lag?Ī number of symptoms are common to jet lag: If you travel regularly and are troubled by jet lag, contact a primary care physician or sleep specialist at Baptist Health. It is also quite common, potentially affecting anyone who flies across time zones for work, school, vacation, or any other reason. Jet lag is temporary but can be a source of serious discomfort while it lasts.

This natural synchronization between body and day is thrown off by fast travel over great distances to the east or west (not north or south in the same time zone).

This internal clock serves to regulate many of the body’s biological functions, including the sleep-wake cycle. Humans have an internal clock, or circadian rhythm, that has evolved in response to living on a planet with a 24-hour day. The medical terms for jet lag are desynchronosis or circadian dysrhythmia. Slow Habits is an independent label/collective based in Portugal which is currently developing ways to merge artists together with the intention to simply spread good vibes around the globe while refreshing and exposing the artists we feature to different forms of creating content.Jet lag is a sleep disorder caused by rapid travel across time zones (jet, or airplane, rather than car or train travel).

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