{"id":139800,"date":"2019-04-18T05:13:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=139800"},"modified":"2019-04-18T05:53:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:53:10","slug":"how-to-conquer-jetlag-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/how-to-conquer-jetlag-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Conquer Jetlag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just landed in Hanoi (after a long flight from LAX -> Taipei, to Hanoi), and surprisingly, I’m feeling pretty good! It seems a combination of intermittent fasting, lots of strong black coffee, and a brief nap on the plane did the trick!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Some thoughts based on my personal experience:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Last meal before a flight, eat a ton of meat, and bitter greens (ketogenic). Preferably have all you can eat Korean BBQ, or shabu shabu. <\/li>
  2. Don’t eat any food on the plane. <\/li>
  3. Allow yourself unlimited black coffee (no cream or sugar) or tea on the plane. <\/li>
  4. If you can, take a nap by having an eye mask and some ear plugs. If you can’t sleep just watch a film, read a book, or play games until you fall asleep. <\/li>
  5. When you arrive, fast all day until dinner time (target destination). During the day drink tons of water, black coffee or tea, and walk around a lot, shoot a lot of photos, and expose yourself to maximum sunlight. <\/li>
  6. Instead of taking a nap during the day just drink more black coffee. <\/li>
  7. For dinner time (target destination) eat tons of meat and bitter greens (ketogenic). <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    It seems this has done an effective job of mitigating and conquering much of my jetlag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This advice might not work for you but it might! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Some theories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    1. Our body circadian rhythm (wake and sleep cycle) is regulated by food consumption (what time of the day we eat our meal), and sunlight exposure. <\/li>
    2. Avoid sugar (because although it gives us a temporary energy boost, the resulting insulin\/sugar crash actually makes us far more tired). <\/li>
    3. Also if possible at the target destination, do some physical activity! Go to the park and do pushups, chinups or bodyweight squats (or one legged pistols for the strong!) <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Just landed in Hanoi (after a long flight from LAX -> Taipei, to Hanoi), and surprisingly, I’m feeling pretty good! It seems a combination of intermittent fasting, lots of strong black coffee, and a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/E0000974.jpg?fit=2400%2C1590&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139804,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139800\/revisions\/139804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}