Good morning everyone, and welcome once again to wacky Wednesdays, it so good to see all
of you after a refreshing holiday in US.
I arrived on Saturday late and was back to work on Monday, a lot of my patient ask me
hay, Dr.Priya how come the jetlag does not bother you?
well instead of answering the question individually, i decided why not talk to all of you about
the jetlag issues, I have the way of dealing the jetlag, it�s kind of train your brain
technique, you see, wherever I need to answers I look around nature there are migratory births,
like the flamingos who fly from Russia all the way to India, they fly from miles, some
of them even fly at night, have you seen any bird complaining of jetlag? they must be having
some technique if we learn from them maybe we can also beat the jetlag, so these are
leadings which bring the technique to beat the jetlag, I have three stages pre-journey,
during -journey and post-journey.
Things that i do which i will share with you today, so before the journey i gear my brain
to the place of my arrival, so if i am going on a holiday my brain buzz with all the exciting
things i will do on my holiday, if i am coming home my brain is all happy to come back to
work, because i love work as much as i love my holidays, i think of all the things i have
to do, i have to complete all the undone projects or the project to be back on or all the things
i have planned and i am all excited about coming home.
So now my brain is already ready for my arrival, then when i check in baggage i set my watch
to the time in my country of disembarkation or arrival.
So, let�s say in this case i have come to Singapore so my watch was showing Singapore
time though i was in San francisco, when i entered my airplane i give the beautiful airhostess
and settle myself in my seat, i have already preplanned what i am going to do in my flight,
because i will be living in flight as i would be living on land, in the place of destination.
So, my time is planned accordingly, when i would be reading, when i would be watching
a movie, when i would be listening to music or some songs, when i would be even texting
in today's world, with my friends and family.
Yes, everything is set, and everything is ready, and even when i have stopover in between
i generally do not deviate from my plan, so it�s all a plan itinerary during my flight.
not to forget i hydrate myself a lot during flight, i carry a empty water bottle which
let the air-hostess fill as soon as i enter my flight, you see i want to save their trips
to my seat every time by calling them a glass of water, and i want to save all those plastic
glasses, so bottle is best, I even exercise in flight, so i walk about in the aisle and
that little square patch behind the aircraft in between the toilet and aircraft kitchen,
that�s my place of exercise.
I stretch my hands and stretch my leg and work on my calk mussels, i do gentle marching,
and i startup with the lovely people in the aircraft airhostesses and airhostess, and
they always have something nice to say me.
So, i hydrate myself, by using lots of moisturizer believe me aircrafts dry your skin like nothing.
so, then when i disembark or when i arrive i all waiting and hit the ground running literally.
So, this time i arrived at 12.30 midnight.
So it was late and when i came home it was almost somewhere between 1 and 1.30 AM, i
had a half a banana because long flight like that one i had 24 hours increase your acidity,
so banana helps to cool down the acidity and i had a nice refreshing warm water bath, thank
god for bringing home safely, and hit the bed, of course sleeep wont come immdtly your
body is still in the state of inertia and it is sill kind of flowing the rhythms of
the place your which you where been, give your body some time, trust your body relax
your body, and after a while you would fall asleep, it won�t be deep sleep so don�t
expect too much but the key here is next day morning set an alarm for the time you normally
wakeup, in my case around 6.00 AM or 6,30 AM so I was out of bed, I literally kicked
myself out of bed, around 6.30 AM and went for a long walk in the open, out in the sun,
you see sun is the central star of our planetary system solar system, so all our body rhythms,
be rhythms of our bowls be the rhythms of our heart, be the rhythms of our hormonal
rhythms, all our rhythms are tag to the sun, hashtag sun.
yes, and just like your iPhone, when you come to the country of destination takes out the
Wi-Fi of that destination and sets clock, so do your body takes to the hi-fi of the
sun and sets your body clock, so when i went for a walk, by muscles moved, my circulations
started, my eye feasted on the bright light my skin absorbed the sun like my lungs breathe
the fresh air, and the oxygen from the plants around, i was wake, then the day throughout
I followed my routine as i would do every day, of course past midnight you in the country
of your embarkation, or where you have been before there is a slight dip in your energy,
and this is little hump you have learned to dive over, either you step out of the house
or go and do some outside errands, go for a walk if it is time you can step out or may
use a tiny bit of caffeine just to tide over the low dip in energy, somewhere around pass
mid night your country of embarkation, this is the first day push yourself till the evening,
have an early dinner, and hit the bed early, chances are your sleep will get disturbed
post-midnight, but do not get out of the bed stay in bed, keep your body in bed, keep on
talking to yourself again wakeup at the same time that you wake up every single day even
if you don�t feel like waking up even if you have just a few wakes of sleep, go for
a walk, let the sun again welcome you your body clock set themselves right, and before
you know there will not be any jetlag to beat you, you would have bet the jetlag, these
techniques do not work in some people, then at such times i blend some special oil for
those patient to help them beat the jetlag, and sometimes even the specially blended oil
do not work, at such times we have certain homeopathic remedies, which help beat the
jetlag, jetlag is different for frequent flyers and there is a whole technique of how frequent
flyers or airhostess manage their frequent travels, that's the topic for another day,
also we cannot forget our furry friends who go across time zones, the little cats, the
little dogs and all kinds of creatures our pets who travel with us, for them too we have
homeopathic remedies and we have techniques to help them tied their long journey, believe
me it is even more painful much more than it is for us, so on that note, i wish you
all happy holidays welcome home have a safe flight and beat the jetlag before it beats
you.
thank you.