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Body Clock Hacking May Help Cure Jet Lag

Vancouver blogger Darren Barefoot, who writes the excellent Geeky Traveller, pointed out we don't have much going on under our Jet Lag tag.

Didn't we dispel the myth that carrot juice cures jet lag? Anyway, though we are firm believers that the only sure fire cure for Jet Lag is to ignore it, we are willing to listen when someone claims to have found the body clock algorithm, which in essence, could reduce or cure jet lag.

Litebook is a portable 'light box' that travellers can use to reduce the effects of jet lag. It uses bright white LEDs of a specific wavelength identical to those of the peak wavelength of sunlight.

I tried it recently when flying from Vancouver to Ottawa. It was only three time zones, but it seemed to help me out with fatigue and sleeping the right hours. It certainly worked better than those silly pills I've tried in the past.

There's also a jet lag calculator on Litebook's site that enables users to figure out when they should the device, and when they should avoid light to overcome jet lag as quickly as possible.

Light is evil. Pill popping doesn't work. That sounds about right. A "Jet Lag Calculator" on the site helps weary travelers figure out how much light they need to avoid to calibrate their body clocks.

We aren't sure if Hoth Han Solo is to show product scale, or to remind us all that crawling into the belly of a freshly killed tauntaun does not cure the winter blues, nor jet lag--either way we are down with Hoth Han.