TESTIMONIALS
I really feel the program helped me. I travel back and forth from Israel to Colorado twice a year. Since I bought your book and followed its recommendations I have had far less Jet lag symptoms. My normal sleep patterns returned quicker than ever before. I feel the combination of using caffeine as suggested, high protein, avoiding sleeping pills or alcohol and skipping the night flight meal all helped to reduce my Jet lag symptoms. Thank you for answering my question.
I followed the Cure for Jet Lag programme and it worked well in both directions. The 3 step system is clear and easily followed. The books sets out detailed plans for both east and westbound trips with time changes of up to 12 hours. The title may be somewhat of a misnomer – this is a plan to avoid jet lag. It works for me.
McTaggert
November 11, 2010
I've traveled from New York to all parts of the globe, including Japan, India, Europe, South America and South Africa — for business and for pleasure — and have suffered mightily from jet lag. It wasn't until I discovered the Scanlon/Ehret book, The Cure for Jet lag, that I realized something could be done about my symptoms, something rather simple really that would work like a charm. Thank you Ms. Scanlon and Dr. Ehret for this amazing resource. I would not be without it. It has become my most invaluable resource when traveling.
Kingston Moss
January 2010
I am the daughter of Dr. Charles F. Ehret. I am happy to see this book back in print and I just ordered myself a copy. My husband and I are traveling to Ireland the first week in August. The last time I traveled abroad, it was with my father, mother and brother. We prepared for that trip by following my dad’s jet lag diet of feast/fast/feast/fast etc. That was in 1976. Now it’s 2010 and time to try it again. Last year a colleague asked me to get her a copy of the book – she travels frequently and heard about it years ago. I didn’t do so but I plan to in the very near future. In fact, I think I’ll buy a copy for my four brothers and sister….you’ll get some orders when I get around to doing so. Thank you Ms. Scanlon.
Sincerely, Julia G. Buckley (maiden name Julia H. Ehret)
February 2010
"I have arrived in Moscow and am using the book's recommendations. So far, so good!"
Daniel L. Wolfe
Wolfeworks, Ltd
Toronto, Canada
December 2009
"Thanks for the fast service.
You wrote a great book that really saved my international business career. On one flight from LAX to Osaka, while I was gorging myself on the (wrong) business class food, I noticed a group of several Japanese business execs eating nearly nothing, drinking only water. This led to them tell me about your book, which I soon purchased. Before using your diet, I usually passed out after lunch for a week after every transoceanic flight. From travelling along with other men around my age in the Company, it was clear that I had an extremely bad jet-lag problem. While the diet never eliminated 100% of the jet-lag, it helped enough to allow me to do my business and avoid the usual little accidents and mistakes.
My brother Geoffrey, an MD, who also has a serious jet-lag problem, never heard of your book or the diet. He is excited about using it on our Dec 1st trip to Europe. And, I’m sure that once he becomes a believer, he’ll pass it on to his patients."
Alan Goldsmith
Bikester, Inc.
November 2009
"If you’re ready to kick jet lag for good, you may want to grab a copy."
Lola Akinmade
Matadorgoods.com & Matadortravel.com February 2009
"This book demystifies jet lag and scientifically breaks down its symptoms with various ways of treating them."
Arash Kardan Featurestravelblog.com February 2009
"I finally got an opportunity to look through your book and find it to be AMAZINGLY well done. Also, I am interested in reviewing the book for the Wilderness Medical Society, as well.
Thanks for sharing this amazing resource with me."
Erik McLaughlin, MD, MPH AdventureDoc.org Expedition/Travel Medicine/Global Health December 2008
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". . . for the business executive who must be sharp at a meeting . . ."
Jane Brody, New York Times
"Even with a little bending, the regimen worked well."
– Dennis R. Getto, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"[The Cure for Jet Lag] worked for one of the most jet-lag-prone
travelers in Christendom."
– William Hines, Chicago-Sun Times
"Ehret has testimony from thousands of military and industrial executives . . . "
– Patricia Sullivan, The Washington Post
"Arm yourself with [The Cure for Jet Lag]
–United Press International
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Personal Note from Lynne W. Scanlon: Dr. Ehret died at 81 in February 2007. News of his death resulted in an outpouring of sympathy from friends and colleagues around the world and a Resolution of the Senate of the State of Illinois in which the Assembly officially joined his family and friends in mourning his passing. Dr. Ehret served in the U. S. Army's 87th Infantry Division during World War II, receiving the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for actions during the Battle of the Bulge.
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Charles F. Ehret; Devised Method to Fight Jet Lag
By Patricia Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 4, 2007
Charles F. Ehret, 83, a scientist whose study of circadian rhythms led to a widely popular anti-jet lag regimen that improved the trips of untold numbers of world travelers, died Feb. 24 of multiple illnesses at his home in Grayslake, Ill.
In more than 35 years of experimentation, Dr. Ehret found that the headaches, nausea, disorientation, fatigue and malaise suffered by globe-trotters had almost nothing to do with thin air and the dizzying effects of supersonic speed, as was commonly assumed. Rather, jet lag is a matter of crossing too many time zones too quickly for the body to adjust. It can be ameliorated by adjusting eating, activity and sleep schedules according to a strict system that Dr. Ehret developed from experiments with single-celled organisms, rats, his eight children and volunteers. Argonne National Laboratory, near Lemont, Ill., where Dr. Ehret worked . . . said in 2004 that its research showed that travelers who use the diet were seven times less likely to experience jet lag when traveling east and 16 times less likely when traveling west. But reducing the effects of jet lag works better if diet is just one part of the regimen, Dr. Ehret thought, so he and Lynne Waller Scanlon wrote the 160-page guide [now titled "The Cure for Jet Lag"] . . . Its precepts were eagerly adopted by President Ronald Reagan, the Army's Rapid Deployment Force, Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians, professional athletes, business people, diplomats and shift workers. Dr. Ehret appeared on the "Today" show, testified before a U.S. House subcommittee hearing in 1983 on shift work and fielded phone calls from the rock group Aerosmith. As a pioneer in the field of chronobiology, Dr. Ehret was always willing to explain, simply but accurately, the cause of jet lag and how human bodies can adjust. "Every cell in the body is a clock," he told interviewers, "and they're all brought together by a special pacemaker in the brain." He continued: "When light strikes the eye, neurotransmitters are released that send an immediate signal to specific regions of the brain. In turn, these brain regions signal the rest of the body that your awake-and-active phase is about to begin." The problem is that the body, working on a cycle of 24 to 25 hours, gets out of sync with the environment when people cross time zones in jets. Jet lag, Dr. Ehret said, lasts about a day per time zone, and it's worse when traveling east because it's harder to speed up the biological clock. Applying his research, Dr. Ehret devised an exquisitely calibrated dietary "clock resetting" system, often abbreviated as "feast-fast, feast-fast." Dr. Ehret, an international traveler who suffered from jet lag, used himself as a guinea pig and persuaded friends and family members to try versions of the diet. "He was very proud of what he had done — we all were," said Ken Groh, a former colleague who worked in Dr. Ehret's laboratory. "It's not the kind of work that Jonas Salk got for developing the polio vaccine, but he was certainly very proud of what he had done. And it does work, if you pay attention to what's laid out in the book." Dr. Ehret continued to fine-tune the diet based on the thousands of letters he received from travelers. "He always had a desire to find practical uses for science," said one of his sons, John Ehret of Third Lake, Ill. "In the 1960s, he built the world's largest spectrograph and put a petri dish under each color of the rainbow to determine how light would affect circadian rhythms." Dr. Ehret also built a model of a photon accelerator but determined that for it to work, it would have had to be a half-mile in diameter. Years later, he consulted with Argonne when it built one. Dr. Ehret was born in the Bronx, N.Y. He served in the 87th Infantry of Patton's Third Army during World War II, and while recuperating from an ankle wound at an Army hospital at Fort Devens, Mass., he had a brief conversation with and got a hug and kiss from movie actress and director Ida Lupino. He graduated from City College of New York in 1946 and received a master's degree in zoology from the University of Notre Dame in 1948 and a doctorate in zoology in 1951 from Notre Dame. He immediately went to work at Argonne. His interests included electromagnetic radiation before he turned to circadian rhythms. He also investigated the development of language, which he put to use when a stroke in the late 1980s forced him to relearn how to speak.
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PRESS RELEASE
Back2Press Books
Contact: Lynne W. Scanlon
November 1, 2008
New York, NY — Back2Press Books, an independent publisher specializing in republishing international best sellers, has announced that Overcoming Jet Lag has been revised, reformatted and republished with the new title The Cure for Jet Lag and is available for purchase online at www.thecureforjet.com in time for international holiday travelers.
The original version of the book was coauthored by the world’s leading authority on jet lag, Dr. Charles F. Ehret, Ph.D. The late Dr. Ehret’s research was underwritten by the U.S. Government. His all-natural approach “tricks” body clocks into a new time zone before the plane lands through the use of carefully timed caffeinated beverages, proven high-energy and sleep-inducing foods, periods of natural and artificial light and appropriately timed periods of activity. Dr. Ehret’s cure for jet lag is most famously known as an anti-jet lag system used by the U.S. Army Rapid Deployment Forces.
“What does it tell you when a dog-eared, long-out-of date book with type so small you can barely read it, is selling as a used book online for up to $200 a copy?” asked Lynne Waller Scanlon, the bestselling coauthor and now independent publisher at Back2Press Books. “It tells you it is time to delete references to the Concorde, factor in Homeland Security issues, reformat the pages, select a bigger typeface, clarify the text, update the tips list and add sparkling new testimonials from the international travelers who swore by the old version, but have eagerly pre-ordered the new $22.50 edition online at www.thecureforjetlag.com.
Scanlon is the first to admit that the Internet is overflowing with jet lag treatments. “I’ve seen synthetic melatonin touted as the cure-all for jet lag, only to have international travelers toss out their tablets, saying the dosage was too complicated and the result too inconclusive.”
Most recently a cure that involves ingesting the extract from the bark of a pine tree for seven days has received enormous press coverage. The U. S. distributor of Pcynogenol, the tree bark extract, is extolling the virtues of their product for reducing jet lag symptoms. “Those journalists who have read the press release and excerpted for their publications without performing due diligence have done readers a big disservice by not digging deeper to find out the side effects. People with autoimmune conditions, organ transplants, arthritis, cancer, skin infections, as well as pregnant women or people taking aspirin, should not assume it is fine to start popping Pcynogenol tablets before a flight,” said Scanlon.
Dr. Ehret’s famous 3-step system for preventing jet lag discourages the use of any drugs, including sleeping pills, to promote sleep while suffering from insomnia-related jet lag symptoms. His research revealed that the human body works overtime to rid itself of foreign chemicals. The drug-induced sleep you experience might seem refreshing, but it is not.
Scanlon’s initial experience following Dr. Ehret’s 3-Step System was when she was writing the first edition for Berkley Publishing Group years ago and a new work assignment from an international organization necessitated that she fly from New York City to Turin, Italy, a six-hour time zone change. “I was afraid not to follow Dr. Ehret’s 3-Step System since I had first-hand experience with severe jet lag symptoms when I arrived in England for a week’s vacation as a kid and had to take to my bed for the better part of four days in a youth hostel.” By following Dr. Ehret’s plan, she arrived in Turin jet lag-free, and was, she said, amazed.
“I knew then that this little book could change international travel forever.” The original book sold hundreds of thousands of copies in English and foreign language translations around the world before being allowed to go out of print. “It’s back by popular demand,” said Scanlon.
The Cure for Jet Lag will not be sold in bookstores or online at Barnes and Noble or Amazon. More information can be found at www.thecureforjetlag.com. About Back2Press Books: Located in New York City, Back2Press Books was founded in 2008 by Lynne Waller Scanlon, best selling author, international literary blogger at www.thepublishingcontrarian.com, former group publisher of AdWeek Developmental Products, and marketing consultant to Barnes & Noble Books, the proprietary book publishing division of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Back2Press Books republishes out-of-print books that have sold in excess of 100,000 copies.