Change of time, food … how to avoid the schedule and recover as soon as possible

The spirit of vacation, but a biological clock always at home: it is the galley of those who opt for the license at the end of the world. If airplane trips have the advantage of speed, they have a well -known and unpleasant side effect: the time gap. How to avoid it? What to do to accelerate this calibration period? Jonathan Taieb’s explanations, sleep doctor, BFMTV.com.

But what is this “delay jet”? “It is when the body and biological clock are no longer at the right time. Our body must adapt to living at the time of the destination, while it is fitted in the starting point,” explains the specialist.

Clearly, our secret organization hormones to tell us about sleeping or eating … without taking into account that it is too early or too late in the holiday place. That can lead to fatigue or insomnia out of place.

Sleep, coffee, look …

To avoid this discrepancy as much as possible, some tips allow you to take the right pace as soon as the plane rose. Therefore, it is advisable to change the time of your watch and your phone at the time of the arrival place, which allows you to judge whether it is a logical or not for this or that activity.

“The question is: when we sleep, when we eat or drink coffee? There are sleeping windows and others where you have to contain,” explains the director of the Sleep Medical Institute. If it’s time to go to bed instead of arriving, it is useful to try to sleep at the same time, for example.

Six days of Jet Delay for a York-New York

Caffeine at the wrong time, meals and disjointed naps or a little firm organic clock: for some people, despite the good advice, the soft blow can still arrive. And the sequence can be relatively long.

“The body will adapt and recover gradually. In general, a cross time corresponds to one day (of Jet Lag, note of the editor). Therefore, if there are 7 hours of gap, it will take a week feel perfectly in its boots,” calculates Jonathan Taieb.

For a York-New York, it has been relocated for six days, while they will take around eight for a Paris-Tokyo. To obtain the duration of the adaptation more quickly, you must be careful to take care of as much as possible in the rhythm of local life in terms of meals and sleeping ones, the indicators that help the body to stay.

“The biological clock will be sensitive to several parameters, such as food, but especially in light. This allows you to block the secretion of melatonin (the hormone that influences sleep, takes into account). We can also play with physical activity, the use of screens or caffeine consumption.” But the best remedies are still time.