Is this FINALLY the answer to avoiding jet lag? The 'calculator' that tells you how to shift your body clock and beat groggy feelings

  • After months of research, Web-Blinds produce plan that beats jet lag
  • User inputs arrival and departures, timings, and usual sleeping hours
  • Calculator then works out a schedule to re-adjust your body clock 

By John Hutchinson for MailOnline

Published: 07:24 EST, 11 September 2015 | Updated: 18:37 EST, 11 September 2015

From eating salads to ditching coffee and meditating, there are a whole host of things we are told will help cure the dreaded jet lag.

But falling back into a regular sleep pattern is the dream cure.

Now it's claimed that mathematics can help you achieve this. A new 'jet lag calculator' allows travellers to input flight dates, times and locations and then tells them how to shift their body clock using this data and beat groggy feelings.

Scroll on graphic to use the calculator 

It's important to work out when you should try and stay awake till to have a chance of beating jet lag

It's important to work out when you should try and stay awake till to have a chance of beating jet lag

Beating jet lag means moving your body clock from the time of your departure point to the time at your destination point.

To do this, you have to seek and avoid light at certain times of day. Seeking bright light makes your brain feel alert and awake (you can use this response to move your body clock from night to day) and avoiding light helps your brain switch off and feel sleepy (you can use this response to move your body clock from day to night).

The jet lag calculator, which was produced by Web-Blinds following months of research and developing algorithms, uses a formula to tell you when to seek and avoid light in order to quickly and easily adjust your body clock to a different time zone.

The jet lag calculator can work out a schedule that should result in a happier holiday

The jet lag calculator can work out a schedule that should result in a happier holiday

You enter your flight details and your normal sleeping pattern, which tells the system a key point in your body clock: the time when you are most sleepy, into the jet lag calculator.

The formula uses the number of time zones your flight crosses to work out how many hours you will have to move your body clock.

It also uses the direction of travel to work out how many hours you can move your body clock each day, one hour for eastward travel and two hours for westward travel.

The calculator uses these factors to work out a unique day-by-day plan. 

On the schedule, you'll see directions about when to seek and avoid light. Follow these steps and you'll move your body clock to your destination time and beat jet lag in no time.

A spokesperson for Web-Blinds told MailOnline Travel: 'Feeling groggy, tired and irritable because of jet lag is no way to start a holiday. In fact, if jet lag strikes then your whole break could be spent trying to get over the worst of the symptoms.

'But you can easily beat this problem with a few simple steps.

'The jet lag calculator uses your flight details and your normal sleeping pattern to work out an easy way for you to move your body clock from your departure time to your destination time. 

'All you have to do is seek and avoid light when shown on your unique plan and you'll enjoy a happier holiday.' 

 

 

 

 

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