Traveling To Europe And Beyond? Prepare For Jet Lag

Many people taking vacations or business trips are planning long flights to get to their destinations, and they may deal with jet lag. Traveling east is more difficult than going west, says Dr. Vaughn McCall of the Medical College of Georgia’s Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior in Augusta.

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They’re called circadian rhythms. And this internal body clock of mine is about to call time out.

When you’re taking a seven-hour trip eastward, leaving at 10:30 at night, and without a first-class seat, you’re looking at a circadian circus of jet lag.

I can’t complain about the destination: Along with my wife, a French teacher, I’ll be hurtling across the Atlantic to spend a week in France. I’m just wondering how I can arrive with a semblance of mental alertness to get off to a good touristy start.