Out of Calgary, Canada, radio station AM770 CHQR this morning at 8 AM. I’m working on downloading the 15-minute segment for the Web site. Well, my computer guy is working on it!

Randy asked some great questions.

Here’s the segment!

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Here we go again.  Another drug company pulling out all the stops to reach into your pocket for your hard earned cash to get you to buy a $9 pill that you don’t need.

Cephalon, a drug company in Pennsylvania, has come up with another “stay-awake” drug to add to your medicine cabinet. This new drug, called Nuvigil, is designed to help you fight the debilitating sleepiness that descends on you after about twenty-four hours in a new time zone.

Your Eyes are Wide Open, But Are You Really Wide Awake with Nuvigil?

Answer? No. In order to be fully awake and functioning at optimum levels in a new time zone, according to the late Charles F. Ehret, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, your core body temperature would have to have returned to normal. That’s the #1 test. And that’s not going to happen by taking a pill each day while you are on your trip. You may be on your feet and walking around during daylight hours at your new destination thanks to the chemical effects of Nuvigil, but you are still suffering from serious mental and physical symptoms of jet lag that affect your entire body.

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Jet lag IS a really good excuse for poor athletic performance.

Ask any basketball player, football player or soccer player who has changed time zones and been expected to perform at his or her best, and I’ll show you an athlete whose hand-eye coordination and psychomotor skills* have been severely compromised by circadian dyschronism — or jet lag.

Don’t believe me? Go outside at midnight or 3 AM and shoot a few baskets and see how accurate you are. (I rest my case!)

Now try again at 11 AM. (Swish, right into the basket!)

Recovery from jet lag after a simple four hour time zone change without The Cure for Jet Lag can take 6 – 7 days. That’s not good if you’ve flown from New York to California or California to New York to compete against athletes who have driven 30-minutes from home to the stadium.

ZERO JET LAG?

How many days will it take to resynchronize your circadian or daily rhythms WITH The Cure for Jet Lag so your hand-eye coordination and psychomotor skills are sharp? Zero days on flights that entail passing through up to four time zones east or west.  Dr. Ehret’s all-natural, proven 3-step plan enables you to step off the jet ready to kick ass.

Note from author Lynne W. Scanlon: Remember what Tiger Woods said when he was interviewed after Y. E. Yang snatched the PGA Championship away from Woods in August 2009? “[I ] struggled with jet lag all week . . .”

*Psychomotor skills are those skills that you have done so often that you don’t think about how to do them while you are doing them — tying shoelaces or riding a bike for example. At first, you really have to concentrate on the steps, later your brain takes over.

A SLEEP SUITE RECOMMENDATION
I recommend this book to all my sleep-deprived customers. Jet lag is NOT inevitable. In an easy to follow program Ehret shows how you can beat nature at its own game through the judicious use of food, light and exercise. The best purchase a regular traveller can make.

It really works!

I’ve followed the advice in this book for numerous trips to Japan and Korea. It really works – I rarely have trouble with jet lag. The advice they give is not gimmicky or based on folklore. It’s a matter of changing your behavior and diet a few days before you leave, and during the initial adjustment. Especially important is start acting like you’re on destination time as soon as you get on the plane – just the opposite of what the airlines do. The authors explain about what is actually going on it your body as it tries to adjust. I’ve found their method is simple, easy and understandable.

By Thomas J Brumm (Ames, Iowa)

A must for vacationers or business travellers,

I began using this system in 1986, based on an earlier version of this book. I’ve used it repeatedly on trips to Europe and Asia, and I’ve been able to make the best use of my first day at my destination every time. On the few occasions when I couldn’t use this system (due to sudden unexpected trips), I found out how debilitating jet lag can be… like having a case of the flu, I was just “out of it” for a couple of days!

I’ve given copies of this book to many friends and business associates over the years, and all have praised the results!

Cross-country travel by jet? International travel? Forget it. The only money I considered spending this year on nonnecessities was for razor blades to slash my wrists if the DOW dipped below 6400. Who could risk the cash outlay for nonbusiness travel when the future looked so bleak? But now, with the DOW seeming to pull itself up by its bootstraps at 9505 today, my angina is abating a bit. Of course, I know the DOW at 9505 is not the DOW at 14,000.

Yes, maybe it is time to think about and maybe even make cautious plans. I’m thinking about it … and that’s a good sign, isn’t it?

By the way, it was a madhouse at Newark Airport at 5 AM last Thursday when I picked up a friend flying in from Oregon. A madhouse. The airport looked like the Las Vegas Strip with traffic jams and people and cars jockeying for position near the curb in ARRIVALS.  All very civilized in a chaotic sort of way! Since I, personally, had not been to the airport in a while, I was very surprised to see the thousands of people swarming around the airport.

Are first-class travelers flying coach? Are coach travelers taking the train? Are train travelers taking the bus? Are bus travelers walking?

Dunno, but I was really, seriously surprised (and a little pleased) to see the crowd.

Where is my passport?

If you think your biggest worry about flying should be whether your plane will plunge from the sky due to equipment malfunction, you are wrong. Your biggest worry about flying should be about pilot error and whether the pilot and co-pilot have normal “core body temperatures” as they enter the cockpit.

Core body temperatures? Yes, a  normal core body temperature is proof positive that a pilot is ready to fly again and that he or she has recovered from the chronobiological dyschronism (AKA jet lag) that results from harebrained flight schedules.

In The New York Times, Sunday, May 17, 2009 edition, “Capt. Paul Nietz, 58, who recently retired from a regional airline, said his schedule wore him down and cost him three marriages. His workweek typically began with a 2:30 a.m. wake-up in northern Michigan and a 6 a.m. flight to his Chicago home bases. There he would have to wait for his first assignment, a noon departure.

By the time he parked his aircraft at the last gate of the night, he was exhausted. But he would be due back at work eight hours and 15 minutes later.”

You want this guy piloting your plane?

The National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Aviation Administration, and Airline Pilots Association Have Their Fingers In Their Ears

These people have to have been deaf, dumb and blind over the past 40 years not to have taken seriously Dr. Charles F. Ehret’s recommendations about ideal pilot schedules and INSISTED upon their immediate implementation. For heaven’s sake, Dr. Ehret was the world’s leading authority on jet lag and a consultant to the airlines. His research was paid for by the U. S. Government.

Pilot Fatigue is Your Fault Too

“Why?” I asked Dr. Ehret, “don’t the airlines take your advice about ideal pilot schedules to prevent pilot error?”

Dr. Ehret told me that the problem was the passenger. Airlines try to please YOU with schedules that allow YOU to arrive at YOUR destination at a time convenient for YOU. YOU want to arrive from New York in London at 7 a.m. destination time so YOU can get in a full day of activity. Pilots’ needs be damned.

So pilots, who would normally be sleeping at night (we are daytime creatures programmed to be awake during the day and to shut down at night), are forced to fight Mother Nature’s normal sleep/wake patterns as the jet streaks through the night. And you wonder why pilots nod off and can’t react quickly in an emergency?

According to that same article in The New York Times, “. . . in some operations, the big airlines are more vulnerable. They are now conducting flights of 16 hours, across more time zones than a pilot can be expected to adapt to.”

Passengers should not only carry passports and tickets when they arrive at the airport, but rectal thermometers as well.

Note from the coauthor of The Cure for Jet Lag: There is a special section in The Cure for Jet lag called “Pilots and Air Crew Members.” It briefly talks about three techniques that Dr. Charles F. Ehret suggests to help pilots fight fatigue and chronobiological dyschronism. However, until the “powers that be” allow pilots and air crews to fly consistent, reasonable “shifts” and eliminate the ever changing, eratic work schedules that are routine for pilots and crew members, Dr. Ehret’s recommendations are bandaides on the problem at best.

By Leon Kreitzman

The Japanese call it Jisaboke and in French it is les effets du décalage horaire. Whatever the language, the symptoms of jet lag are the same the world over — fatigue, insomnia, disorientation, swelling limbs, loss of appetite, headaches, mood disturbances, bowel irregularity and light-headedness. Jet lag has also been implicated in loss of libido, nausea, sore throat, fall in cognitive performance and even an increased susceptibility to malaria.

It is not just unpleasant. Jet lag can start wars. In 1956, United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrived back in Washington after a long flight to learn that the Egyptians had just bought a substantial amount of Russian arms. Dulles immediately canceled the agreement he had made with Colonel Nasser to bankroll the Aswan Dam project. The Suez Crisis that followed ended Britain’s imperial pretensions, and at the height of the Cold War the Russians had their first foothold in Africa.

Read the rest of the article over at The New York Times.

Leon Kreitzman, [is] an authority on questions of the body clock, like why jet lag happens . . . .”

Note from the Author of The Cure for Jet Lag: If you scroll down to the bottom of the page at The New York Times, you’ll see a great reference to Overcoming Jet lag, now called . . . The Cure for Jet Lag. I also left a comment.

Amazing, isn’t it? The U.S. Government underwrote Dr. Ehret’s research on stopping jet lag and no one has told President and Mrs. Obama. Believe me, on this, the third day in England, they are feeling lousy with jet lag. Lousy.

Well, no one told President Bush either about the cure for jet lag, that’s for sure.  (Left hand/right hand problems. What’s new in Washington?) Next week I’m sending the President and Mrs. Obama a copy of The Cure for Jet Lag via Mrs. Obama’s Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady, Franny Starkey Sanguin. (End run!) I’ll let you know how it goes.

A few weeks ago I sent a copy to President Clinton for him to give to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She really needs the book, too. I preceded my mailing with a phone call to The William J. Clinton Foundation in the Bronx and got some snot-nosed intern-type who was very polite, yet very dismissive of me. That part about my being an author of three international bestsellers didn’t seem to impress him. (STOP TEXTING your friends and pay attention to me!) And, of course, I followed up with another phone call after I was sure the book had arrived. I could not get past “go,” but was assured that President Clinton received the book. Of course he did . . .  NOT!  It’s probably going to turn up on Ebay. Believe me, I know the drill. That’s why I am loathe to send out The Cure for Jet Lag review copies.

Below is an ever-growing list of people on the Internet who understand the impact of jet lag, but clearly do not know there is a cure for jet lag:

Shahbaz naps at Nawaz’s press conference
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had dizziness due to jet lag during the press conference of Nawaz Sharif at Raiwind on Friday. …

Morning Reading List: Caps Clinch No. 2 Seed
Washington Post – United States
I think season openers in Europe are much more disruptive as the participants have to fight jet lag and such for a while. To be fair though, …

Insight: Beyond the Obama magic
BBC News – UK
Apart from one evening press conference in London where jet lag and a cold seemingly caught up with him, he was fluent and inspirational. …

President Barack Obama welcomed to Buckingham Palace for first …
Glasgow Daily Record – Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Appearing to refer to his jetlag, he won laughter from his hosts as he added: “I’m proud to say I did not nod off in any of the meetings. …

I am not a singlespeeder: Iditarod 2009 Part 1
By Aidan
Nerves and jet lag kept me from sleep the night before we started, though, and as I arrived at Knik, I felt numb and a little bit queasy. The sun shone down on us and the other racers seemed to be going through similar thoughts as we …

Houston has no problem attracting top players
Dallas Morning News – Dallas,TX,USA
Most who travel overseas for the Masters like to compete the week before to recover from jet lag and get in fighting shape. “I heard the golf course was …

Record-Eagle Blogs : Blog Archive » Back in Michigan
By Jo Anne Wilson
I’ve had more than 10 days to settle back in and to try to overcome jet lag. Finally, about day nine, I stopped feeling as if there were lead soles on my shoes and a foggy mist around my head! I recovered just in time to head out to the …

Rich Christiansen – Parallel Entrepreneur » Concrete but Discreet
By Rich Christiansen
I never had a minute to adjust to the jet lag, and at the end of a long week, I was way beyond exhaustion. The trip had hit me like a hurricane. Finally, after boarding the plane for the flight home, I relaxed. …

Nordic Ski Racer – I finally won the US Nationals race!
The last few days I’ve been feeling a little under the weather and I’m still experiencing some jet lag from my Europe trip (10 hour time difference). Therefore I started my warm up pretty slow, making sure I skied relaxed and easy. …

Spain–First Impressions
By zora
Jet lag in full effect. But all went smoothly, considering. After the passport hurdle, there was the connection-in-Madrid hurdle: very tight, aggravated by slack US Air rep who said he couldn’t check my bags through to Almeria. …

Elvis Crespo’s not so suave moment
Orlando Sentinel – Orlando,FL,USA
… he got his first Latin Grammy nomination. When interrogated by the police, Crespo allegedely said he “did not remember” the incident. A bad case of jetlag?

Well-rested Socceroos in box seat for match against Uzbekistan
Fox Sports – Surry Hills,NSW,Australia
By Doug Conway For once it’s not the Socceroos but their World Cup opponents who face long-haul travel, jet lag and a hasty preparation, and the Australians …

I’m Neutral: 27 quiet stars
By luke
jet-lag is stealing all my late night time. i become so tired pretty early in the evening and it wipes me out for most of the night, as long as i can stay up. and then i wake up pretty early, which is nice to have some more time in the …

The Royal Forums » Busy Belgians
By LadyLeana
Princess Mathilde, on the other hand, hardly had the time to recover from her jet lag, as she was one of the guests of honour at the “Female Entrepreneurship” conference, organized by Markant, Unizo and TRIAS. The conference was held at …

The Bridge of San Luis Rey was written by American author Thornton Wilder. It was published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that led up to each person heading for that bridge. A friar who has witnessed the horror of the bridge’s collapse examines the lives of the victims who plunged to their deaths. He tries to find a “cosmic” answer to why each person on that bridge was destined to die on that day.

Whenever there is a tragic plane accident, such as the February 12, 2009 Continental Express flight 3407 crash in Clarence Center, New York, where all 49 people aboard were killed or the February 7, 2009 Aerotaxie Manaus flight in Brazil where 24 of 28 passengers died or the January 15, 2009 Afghanistan military flight in Herat Province where all 13 people died, I think of Thornton Wilder’s novel.

I read The Bridge of San Luis Rey when I was in high school. It set the stage for how I think about death and dying. I dash across a traffic choked street in New York City, and I think: This might be it for me. I drive on an icy, desolate country road and feel the car slip on black ice, and I think: This might be it for me. I stand too close to the platform edge at a Metro North train station in Connecticut as the train pulls into the station, and I think: This might be it for me. I board a plane and as it takes off or lands, and I think: This might be it for me.

My brother has a way of dismissing death and dying with the seemingly cavalier comment, “His time was up.” My veterinarian remarked, as I held my 14.5 year old English Springer Spaniel, Toby, in my arms, “Everything dies.” My friend’s 90-year-old mother wandered out of the house on a bitter cold, snowy morning at 2:30 AM in December three years ago and froze to death by the side of the road. “I’m just waiting for the newspaper delivery,” she told a passerby who stopped his car and offered help. Little did she know it was Grim Reaper who would show up to take delivery.

Each step, each action, brings us closer to the Bridge of San Luis Rey.

Why did all 150 passengers and crew of 5 survive the January 15, 2009 US Airways flight 1549 descent into the icy waters of the Hudson River shortly after take off from La Guardia Airport?

A roll of Death’s dice?

I don’t have these answers. Do you?

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