Having read Pilita Clark’s article on jet lag, readers will be pleased to know there is a much more basic solution at hand (Business Life, January 29).
Aligning with your normal sleep time on arrival at your end destination is a huge factor. For instance, there should be no jet lag travelling from the eastern US to Europe in the early morning as you arrive in the late evening and you can replicate your normal sleep pattern, ditto if you fly from London to east Asia at night.
The barrier to this approach is that people like to maximise their time in their destination, albeit for a few hours; but, to avoid a zombified several days after, we should learn to take the hit. We don’t need an app to tell us when to go to bed, just a watch!
Milo Brett
London N15, UK
