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📢 文末扫码进裙,免费领取双语精读讲义 Bartleby: Jet set How to beat a common side-effect of air travel The Economist Business Oct 31, 2024 | 761 words | ★★★★☆ Anyone who has flown across longitudes will be familiar with the havoc air travel plays on your circadian rhythms, causing you to jolt awake at four in the morning and tape your eyes open at four in the afternoon to keep from nodding off. Those in jobs that require them regularly to traverse the globe may find their brains muddled for days after every trip, leaving them tired, disoriented and at elevated risk of irate outbursts. Less clear is what can be done about it. Dubious advice abounds, from eating chocolate for breakfast and taping plant seeds behind your ears to swallowing Viagra (though a study in 2007 did show that the “little blue pill” helped rodents to overcome jet leg faster). Does anything really help? There are, unfortunately, no miracle cures for jet lag, despite an obvious
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