Travel

Jet lag can massively disrupt your sleep schedule for several days or even weeks. Adjusting to a new time zone makes you feel tired during the day and make it more difficult to fall asleep at night. When you're travelling, this is not the ideal mood to be in and make the most of your trip. That lag feeling is difficult to avoid altogether, especially when travelling to vastly different time zones. What you can do, however, is prepare yourself beforehand. This will put you in the best mood for your trip. What is Jet Lag? Jet lag is when…

Hans Christian Andersen said that, “To travel is to live”, and he was not wrong! The sense of adventure, the delicious new foods and interesting new friends all combine to make unforgettable memories. However, the excitement of travelling and the constant changing of locations can significantly impact your quality of sleep. We all know that jet lag can be problematic, but recently scientists at Brown University have found that our sleep can be disturbed by the brain activating a “night watch” mode when staying in a new place. It causes us to sleep less deeply and react more easily to…

Nothing can upset your sleep schedule quite like stepping on a plane and jetting off to a foreign land — even if it’s for fun. We all have an optimal period called your circadian window when our bodies want to sleep - typically around 11pm. to 7am, and any time you travel, particularly across two or more time zones, it ends up wreaking havoc on this window. Nobody wants to spend the first 36 hours of their holiday recovering from a flight so whether you’re travelling for work or play, here are some top tips to keep sleep disruption to…