Today is a day where the first big wave of triathletes arrives on Big Island. All of them will sooner or later be overwhelmed by symptoms of jetlag, some more aware of it than others. But all of them will get it. There is a lot of speculation but also quite some research around this topic.
It is said that traveling long distances shortens our lifespan, that aging is accelerated, immunity weakened and sleep disturbances evoked. All this stands true. Anyhow, we don’t have a clear picture yet of what jetlag really is.
We know by now that light is an important pacer of our body’s various functions, we know that we got an inner web of clocks, each organ having its own rhythm, and an overall clock that interconnects the different rhythms of clocks in our body. This overall clock pursues a more or less 24-hour synchronicity.
These clocks direct the activity patterns of gene expressions, moreover, they themselves emerge from clock genes giving life the day and night rhythm. Thus everything in our life follows roughly a 24-hour rhythm. A malfunctioning clock or a wrongly adjusted timing system leads to sleep disturbances. The reasons behind these dysregulations may be manifold, the result is the same: sleep is bad, disturbed, fragmented etc. well-being hampered, susceptibility to all kinds of diseases increased, first all to infection. All travelers know that.

Jetlag is related to these processes of gene expression activity patterns that set the clocks that control immune activity, cell division cycles or hormone releases. Melatonin is well known for positively influencing our sleep pattern after an oversea’s flight.

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