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The Bookless Club: How do you handle jet lag, or hangovers?

Opinion: Leaping over eight time zones in a single day is a modern problem. Nothing in human evolution prepares us for this.

The only thing that rivals hangover remedies are jet lag remedies. There’s actual science available on both, but that doesn’t seem to reduce the amount of folklore that swirl around the topics.

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It’s been a long time since I required hangover advice. I’ve never been much of a drinker, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t had my share of grim mornings-after. The “hair of the dog” antidote was always the chief nugget of misinformation on offer the “day after the night before”. A close second was the prescription of black coffee at its most malevolent level of caffeination. According to medical authorities, however, nothing really works except sleep, time, and constant hydration. Well, that, and rueful reflection.

Jet lag is another topic where people have advice. Leaping over eight time zones in a single day is a modern problem. Nothing in human evolution prepares us for this. If you’ve ever wondered just how many people on any given day are up in the air, aviation market analysts put that number at between 10 million and 15 million........

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