EPTHow to beat jet lag - Page 4
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dnld12
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MilesTeg
France1271 Posts
Thanks a lot, really amazing post. | ||
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nosliw
United States2716 Posts
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KazeHydra
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Atticus.axl
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whatthefat
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HardMacro
Canada361 Posts
The pay for the work is very good; but I have to make a decision/commitment in the next month on whether to stay at this job long-term. Will I majorly fuck up my health by having 3-4 days in the week where it's not possible for me to sleep more than ~2 hours at a time and less than 4 hours total per busy day, or can my body just get used to this schedule by sleeping 10+ hours on the other not so busy days? | ||
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whatthefat
United States918 Posts
On January 27 2012 14:05 HardMacro wrote: Been doing some on-call work, so I have zero regularity in my schedule. Just the past week, I've slept 2 - 11 hours at the oddest of times, averaging 5 hours / day. I don't feel any different except for about ~0.5 hour of drowsiness when I wake up; I'm mostly energized when I need to. The pay for the work is very good; but I have to make a decision/commitment in the next month on whether to stay at this job long-term. Will I majorly fuck up my health by having 3-4 days in the week where it's not possible for me to sleep more than ~2 hours at a time and less than 4 hours total per busy day, or can my body just get used to this schedule by sleeping 10+ hours on the other not so busy days? Your body probably can't adjust to this kind of schedule. You may be able to handle the acute effects of sleep deprivation, and get some temporary reprieve from your days off, but chronic effects will accumulate over weeks. Your diet will probably also suffer, as sleep deprivation messes with the hormones that signal hunger and satiety. The other thing is, if you keep somebody on 4 hours of sleep a night for 2 weeks, their reaction times just get worse and worse over time, but their self-assessed level of fatigue flattens off after just a few days. It seems once you get chronically sleep deprived you start to mentally adjust your own baseline and underestimate your own level of impairment. | ||
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Slakkoo
Sweden1119 Posts
Well written and fascinating blog | ||
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Kreb
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Example: Lets say you normally sleep at 23:00 and wake up at 07:00. Lets say you, for whatever reason, being it travel or other stuff, feel tired at 15:00 one day. Wouldnt it make sense to kinda force yourself to stay awake then? Maybe not necessarily all the way from 15->23, since by then you'd almost dead, but maybe force yourself to stay up from 15->20/21. By then you'll still be really tired, and you will probably welcome the extra two/three hour sleep you just gave yourself. So rather than the normal 8h, you sleep 10/11h between 20/21->07:00. And next day you're good to go with your normal life? Its pretty much the same as when you're fucking up your sleeping schedule, but you're doing it backwards and actually correcting it rather than fucking it up even more. Not saying its that easy, and I dont travel enough to be able justify it through experience, but I've done some lighter versions of that "method" and it seems to work ok for me. Would be awesome to hear OP comment on this since he seems to have a great deal of knowledge about it. =) | ||
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senty
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pred470r
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Seanza
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GeNeSiDe
United Kingdom354 Posts
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R4iD
Canada142 Posts
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Firesilver
United Kingdom1190 Posts
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Marou
Germany1371 Posts
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Cosmos
Belgium1077 Posts
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gRzBrandO
Canada50 Posts
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Tommylew
Wales2717 Posts
Iw odner how many pros going to Korea already do this or just dont bother? ALso shows that if they dont why some of them play ever so abd the day after they get there... | ||
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