Researchers Find Flashing Lights May Prevent Jet Lag From Taking Hold
  • 8 years ago
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine may have found a solution for jet lag – flashing lights.

Trips across continents, oceans, and time zones can certainly be exciting, but they also often come with the unpleasant side effect of jet lag.
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine may have found a solution – flashing lights.
Exposure to them while sleeping, during nighttime hours, proved to be a rather successful means of pushing the body’s circadian rhythms to better adapt to new time zones.
While the team had previously had some success with static light sources, exposing study participants to intermittent pulses produced even better ones.
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