Researchers indicate that if you starve yourself for 16 hours before a long flight, it is unlikely that you will experience jet lag. You may not experience jet lag, but if you arrive in a place at the time of night when everything serving food is closed, you will almost certainly experience anger, and may be hypoglycemic, this latter state can be accompanied with headaches, and general malaise. This is not a good way to arrive at your destination.
Our body clock, or circadian rhythm, dictates when we eat, sleep and wake up, this is all done according to light. Of course this would apply to an ideal healthy sleeping pattern, however the world is full of people who wake in the middle of the night, and hit the fridge for a snack, regardless of the light. Many people wake up when it’s dark and fail to resume sleep.
“A period of fasting with no food at all for about 16 hours is enough to engage this new clock,” says Saper.
“Avoiding any food on the plane, and then eating as soon as you land, should help you to adjust and avoid some of the uncomfortable feelings of jet lag.’
The researcher does mention that ” skipping meals ahead of a long flight has not been proven to work in humans, it may work”. He used mice in his study, can’t imagine the procedure he would have used to simulate a long air flight over numerous time zones with mice.
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