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Hack Your Body Clock with the Litebook

by admin on January 2nd, 2007

Disclosure: Litebook (that’s it under Hoth Han Solo) is a client of Capulet, my day job. That said, it’s a gadget which has applications for travel, so it’s not out of place on this site. Plus, I’ve tried it and it seems to work.

Jet lag sucks. I don’t drink, but I expect that it feels like being really, really hungover for a couple of days. I travel a fair bit, and cross eight time zones a couple of times a year. I’d like to be immediately efficient, but as soon as I get there–either Europe or coming back to Canada–I need to sleep for about three days.

I’ve tried a herbal remedy for jet lag, but it had little or no effect. The folks at Litebook have an alternative strategy, and the science seems to make sense.

Clinical research conducted at NASA and elsewhere demonstrates that in only 2 days your body clock can be reset to your new time zone with properly timed exposure to sufficiently bright light in specific wavelengths. With proper use of The Litebook®, your energy, mood, concentration, and sleep patterns can all be reset to your new time zone in as little as 60 minutes.

Not to get all it’s-like-Tang, but back in the day, the Columbia shuttle astronauts used light therapy so that they could launch at 1 AM.

I tried the Litebook on a trip to Ottawa recently, and it seemed to help a bit. Though we’re not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) sufferers, we’ve been using the Litebook daily to try it out. It’s definitely helped us sleep more soundly. I recently slept through an entire night for the first time in a couple of years.

There’s a little jet lag calculator that travelling Litebook owners can use to determine when they should use the light therapy. You can watch a demo of the calculator, if you’re so inclined.

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