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2 "id": "https://mort.io/blog/jetlag-fasting/",
3 "title": "Rat Racing Jetlag",
4 "link": "https://mort.io/blog/jetlag-fasting/",
5 "updated": "2016-11-04T00:00:00",
6 "published": "2016-11-04T00:00:00",
7 "summary": "<p>As I’ve found myself repeating the same information several times recently, and\nhave to dig out the links in question every time, I figured it’d be useful to\nwrite this down once so I can point at it.</p>\n<p>Jetlag is a first-world problem but can be an annoying one– in recent years\nI’ve found I have a particular problem getting up in the morning when flying\neast. So, one day, bored in an airport in the US and with only the entire\nInternet to hand, I thought I’d look around for an explanation at least.</p>\n<p>I ended up coming across reports of some physiological research – in rats of\ncourse – that suggested a way to avoid jetlag. I’ve since tried it over a dozen\ntimes, and found it to work in all cases. At this point I no longer care if it’s\nplacebo affect or a genuine explanation or something else :)</p>\n<p>The TL;DR is: fast for >16 hours before your time of arrival, then eat as\nappropriate. Definitely >16 hours though – the occasions I’ve not quite managed\nit (at least once I miscounted and managed only about 14 hours) it didn’t seem\nto work as effectively.</p>\n<p>As I interpret the information in the\n<a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1153277\">article</a>, found via\n<a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7414437.stm\">BBC</a> and\n<a href=\"http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/05/study-identifies-food-related-clock-in-the-brain/\">Harvard</a>\nreports, through my “I can barely do computer science and certainly not biology”\nbrain, mammals have two body clocks, one driven by daylight and one by\nmetabolism. The daylight can’t be shifted quickly, but the metabolic one can be\nmade to float by fasting. The metabolic also being a lower level clock means\nthat, when you resync it by consuming calories, it syncs back to whatever light\nconditions are current.</p>\n<p>As I say, this isn’t my area of expertise – but it seems to work anyway.</p>\n<p>Also, because a surprisingly large (or perhaps not) number of people also ask–\nas far as I know and have experienced, fasting means <strong>no</strong> calories,\n<strong>including alcohol</strong>, even it it’s free… :)</p>",
8 "content": "<p>As I’ve found myself repeating the same information several times recently, and\nhave to dig out the links in question every time, I figured it’d be useful to\nwrite this down once so I can point at it.</p>\n<p>Jetlag is a first-world problem but can be an annoying one– in recent years\nI’ve found I have a particular problem getting up in the morning when flying\neast. So, one day, bored in an airport in the US and with only the entire\nInternet to hand, I thought I’d look around for an explanation at least.</p>\n<p>I ended up coming across reports of some physiological research – in rats of\ncourse – that suggested a way to avoid jetlag. I’ve since tried it over a dozen\ntimes, and found it to work in all cases. At this point I no longer care if it’s\nplacebo affect or a genuine explanation or something else :)</p>\n<p>The TL;DR is: fast for >16 hours before your time of arrival, then eat as\nappropriate. Definitely >16 hours though – the occasions I’ve not quite managed\nit (at least once I miscounted and managed only about 14 hours) it didn’t seem\nto work as effectively.</p>\n<p>As I interpret the information in the\n<a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1153277\">article</a>, found via\n<a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7414437.stm\">BBC</a> and\n<a href=\"http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/05/study-identifies-food-related-clock-in-the-brain/\">Harvard</a>\nreports, through my “I can barely do computer science and certainly not biology”\nbrain, mammals have two body clocks, one driven by daylight and one by\nmetabolism. The daylight can’t be shifted quickly, but the metabolic one can be\nmade to float by fasting. The metabolic also being a lower level clock means\nthat, when you resync it by consuming calories, it syncs back to whatever light\nconditions are current.</p>\n<p>As I say, this isn’t my area of expertise – but it seems to work anyway.</p>\n<p>Also, because a surprisingly large (or perhaps not) number of people also ask–\nas far as I know and have experienced, fasting means <strong>no</strong> calories,\n<strong>including alcohol</strong>, even it it’s free… :)</p>",
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