Cure for jet-lag coming soon

It’s odd that jet-lag needs a cure. It does not seem like the sort of thing for which there should be a cure. When it’s been a long time since you’ve traveled it can become easy to see jet lag as a psychological weakness, not a physical one. All you’ve got to do is tell yourself to “buck up, you’ve done nothing but sit for ten hours.” But as all weary travelers know, jet-lag is as real as any virus or condition.

The problem all has to do with natural sleep cycles and circadian rhythms. As doctors and passengers both know, the human body doesn’t take too kindly to messing with its sleep and the current drugs on the market for jet-lag, like Xanax and other benzodiazepines, have to be strong enough to overcome the body. Unfortunately, that also makes them a little too strong and then there’s that chemical-dependency issue that comes with heavy use of these drugs.

The new supposed cure involves working with the body, or more specifically, already being produced by the body.