Hey, everybody, today I'm going to be talking
about how to recover from jet lag naturally.
If you ever traveled overseas or across multiple time zones,
you probably know what I'm talking about
because you probably experienced jet lag.
And, let me tell you, jet lag is definitely real.
And in this video I'm also going to give you
a free downloadable health guide
which will really help you out and contains
lots of helpful information for you and your family,
natural remedies,
and ways that you could improve your lives today.
Jet lag is a real condition
and thankfully, though, it is only temporary.
Jet lag is known medically as desynchronosis.
I know, that's a weird sounding terminology,
but it's when your body goes out of sync
with the natural circadian rhythms, and the zones
that you cross kind of confuse your body into thinking
or experiencing the night-day reactions
that you would normally go through
because your body gets used to living
in these circadian rhythms or these zones.
And, when you travel, especially overseas,
depending on how many time zones you travel across,
depends on how much you may or may not suffer from jet lag.
Normally, jet lag lasts for about three to five days
depending on how far you travel, again.
Some of the most common symptoms of jet lag
include irritability, bloating, extreme fatigue
during the day, being disoriented, being just drowsy.
This is a big one, constipation.
Most people who travel more than four to six hours
experience constipation or some sort
of temporary bowel disorder when they arrive.
Dehydration is also a really big symptom of jet lag,
and early waking, waking up in the middle of the night.
or what you would consider the middle of the night,
being like three o'clock in the morning.
Also, excessive sleepiness.
Now, I've tried a lot of ways to balance.
I've been traveling overseas a lot,
and I've been having different experiences
and trying different things, and today I'm going to share
some of the things that are working really good for me now.
My quest for a solution to jet lag
started a couple years ago after my family and I
took a trip to Athens, Greece, from Houston.
And it started in Houston when our plane was delayed.
And, whenever your plane gets delayed,
you start stressing out, you start going
into a sympathetic state because we had a connection.
When we finally got on the plane,
none of us could really sleep.
Our stress levels were still high.
I was eating bad because we were killing time.
I wasn't drinking enough water.
It was a disaster.
We finally arrived at our secondary location,
then we got on the plane, our last leg, to go to Greece,
and then there were mechanical issues.
Everything that could have gone wrong
on that trip went wrong.
And that wasn't the end of it.
For five days after that none of us could sleep.
We had severe jet lag.
We were waking up at two, three in the morning
every single night and were just not balanced,
and it was not a good experience at all
because, I mean, when you're traveling somewhere
you want to have a good time.
We had tour guides the next mornings.
So that was when I started my quest
of how can we make things better when we travel,
how can we not have jet lag.
I mean, some things you're just going to have to deal with.
So my first recommendation and my first tip,
if you're going to be traveling, is to drink lots of water.
Stay hydrated.
Your body needs a lot more water when you travel.
My second tip, intermittent fasting.
I've tried this after that experience
on my last three or four flights overseas.
I just reduced the amount of food that I'm eating.
I do not eat the food on the airplane.
I intermittent fast because Harvard Medical Schools
came out with a study that said that, if you're not eating
at all while you're on your way to your destination,
that could help you reset your time clock,
and it actually does work.
The less food that you have in your stomach,
the better you're going to be when you arrive,
and the more energetic you're going to feel.
Most people when they travel,
they just forget about being healthy.
They forget about having a healthy diet,
and they just eat, eat, eat, and they drink, drink, drink.
If you're going to be flying, try to resist the urge
of eating a lot, and do some intermittent fasting
and drink lots of water.
The next tip I have that I've learned
is try not to drink alcohol while you're on your flight
or at least six hours before your flight
because alcohol will dehydrate you.
And alcohol is an endocrine disrupting chemical.
It does disrupt your circadian rhythms.
So, it's going to be a lot better off in the long run
if you don't drink alcohol until you recover,
and your circadian rhythms are balanced again,
once you arrive at your destination.
The next tip is avoid as much salty food prior to flying,
at least two days before you fly.
And the reason I say that is salt retains water,
and who wants to have digestive problems
and pain and all the other stuff
by not being able to go to the bathroom.
So avoid as much salt or as much salty foods
before you travel.
Avoid sugary drinks, especially artificial sweeteners
as well, diet drinks.
I like to take melatonin on the plane now,
so take a good melatonin supplement, maybe five milligrams,
and try to sleep on the plane if you can.
That really helps me out a lot.
Also I've learned to bring an eye mask with me on the plane.
One thing that I love to do,
another tip is to exercise and to stretch on the plane.
It's so good to just get up, walk around.
Stretch a little bit, do some squats.
Anything you can possibly do to move
and get your blood flowing on the plane
is going to be excellent when you get to your location.
These are all just preventative measures
to help prevent jet lag.
What I really love to do is to take Oxy-Powder.
Whenever I get to my location finally and I go to bed
for that first night, I take four to six Oxy-Powder.
That really helps re-oxygenate my body and, when I get up
in the morning, anything I have in my digestive system
is flushed out, and I can start anew,
and my gut health is really giving me that energy,
and I don't have any type of food
stuck in my intestinal track.
A number one tip, though, something I learned
by reading a lot on jet lag is something that, if I can do
I will do, is spend time in the sun as soon as possible.
If you're on vacation, bake in the sun.
The sun is incredible for putting your body
back into a normal circadian rhythm.
So sun, fun and a gallon of water a day keeps jet lag away.
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Thanks for watching and, if you have any tips
that you can share with our community,
please leave them in the comment section below.
Anything that you've done to conquer jet lag,
any stories that you had while you've been flying,
anything that can help our community,
we would love to hear it.
And, as always, thanks for watching and live healthy.
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