The New York Times ran a piece on the science of dealing with jet lag. But who’s going to do this?

Dr. Charmane I. Eastman, director of the Biological Rhythms Research Lab at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said she had found one way to virtually eliminate jet lag from, say, a New York-Milan flight.



It involves resetting your body clock with small doses of the hormone melatonin for three days before flight time — combined with going to bed an hour earlier each day — and then taking in bright light, natural or artificial, after arriving in Italy about six hours later. She recommends using a light box, widely used to treat the “winter blues.”

Better is the article’s suggestion to drink some coffee and take a better. Better still, here are my previous tips on jet lag.