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Found it at a travel store in Texas. Clerk swears by it. Anyone 'round here try it?

Just realized I booked a rather early tour for our first full day.

If it matters, flying from Texas at 11am, to Milan with 9a arrival.

Usually flying east is the worst for me. Plan to let pharmaceuticals be my friend, but have teens that I hate to drug!! (Geez, that sounds terrible!!)

And Benedryl is so drying. Hate to use that on them.

Advice??

kiwipete

We fly from New Zealand to Europe or UK most years, never fly with out them. We are in our 60's and always hit the ground running with no jet lag over 20+ flights. NO JET LAG are great

janisj

I haven't. But when it first came out several years ago, a local travel store where I give travel/packing presentations did a follow up survey over 6 months of every person who bought/used it. The results (strictly unscientific) were that over 75% said they thought it really did work. Don't know how much was some sort of placebo effect and how much was real . . . But the shop has continued stocking it and never gets any complaints.

flygirl

How early is early? I assume you don't mean the day you arrive but the first morning you wake up in your hotel?

live42day

Use it all the time and love it. As far as I am concerned it works and is all natural ingredients.

stanbr

Only flew Transatlantic once without No Jet lag. Thought I was never going to recover. Every trip since then with No jet lag I only feel fatigued but with enough energy to keep on going. It isn't a miracle kind of thing, you do have effects from the trip but I wouldn't ever fly without it.

nukesafe

If it works for you, then great. You do realize, don't you, that No-Jet-Lag pills are a homeopathic "remedy"? Homeopathic remedies have essentially no ingredients. The contents are serially diluted so there is just the binder of the pill holding together ---- nothing.

They cannot possibly work clinically. Psychologically, perhaps, but not in any medical sense. Don't want to start an argument with homeopaths, but as a scientist they are nonsense. Faith healing in pill form.

WWK

I would rethink the early tour on your first day. Even if No Jetlag helps, there are too many variables from arrival delay to what my family calls Irritable Travel Syndrome.

If you can't reschedule, let the kids have a light breakfast and some kind of caffeinated drink- soda or gasp (!) coffee- to get going.

Sue_xx_yy

Irritable Travel Syndrome - WWK, I love it!

ParisAmsterdam

You might as well drink a glass of water as use a bogus product like No Jet Lag. Why? It is a homeopathic product which means any active ingredients have been diluted so much there is unlikely to be so much as a molecule of said ingredient's left in the solution.

If I recall correctly, this product has been diluted to the 32nd power. Picture a 1 followed by 32 zeros. Complete bunk. It is amazing to me that people believe in such nonsense in the 21st century.

If you are interested, do a YouTube search for "James Randi, Homeopathy". Here's a link to get you started: http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/...feb5video.html

So why to they claim it works. Number one... they lie. The oldest trick in the book to get someone to buy something. Number 2, there is probably a placebo effect among some people.

stokebailey

A friend of mine who's a circus professional was practicing a bareback riding stunt with three others when they all fell off the horse and on top of her. It's less dangerous to fall towards the center, but somehow they fell out onto the hard ring barrier, and she knew she'd be covered with bruises by the next day. Her circus friends gave her arnica right away, she took it a few more times as directed, and according to her never had a bruise.

In my job I speak with parents who swear by homeopathic teething tablets and cold remedies for young children. Are these babies experiencing the placebo effect?

Just because something shouldn't work doesn't make it fraudulent. The body's a mysterious thing.

stanbr

My niece is a doctor and she to scoffs at our using stuff like no jet lag. Ultimately all I can say is, despite the science, taking it we feel better than we did when we didn't take it. A placebo effect is still a reality and if it works I don't concern myself of what makes it work.

ParisAmsterdam

The body may be mysterious but there is no mystery about homeopathy... it's a fraud. Pure and simple. How do those parents know it was the remedy that worked? Maybe the baby just stopped crying. Getting opinions from parents is hardly a double blind scientific study.

historytraveler

It is a placebo for reasons already stated. Many feel it works for them and that's fine but there may well be other factors involved preventing or relieving their jet lag symptoms that they are not aware of.

G_Hopper

That Mitchell and Webb Look:Homeopathic A&E
http://youtu.be/HMGIbOGu8q0

Enjoy!

stokebailey

I'm eager to see the jet lag remedy you modern enlightened types are offering to replace the helpful effects that people above report.

stokebailey

And I'll tell my friend who fell off a moving horse onto a sharp corner, with more than one body falling on top of her, that she probably wouldn't have been sore or bruised the next day anyway. Pure and Simple.

G_Hopper

<i>I'm eager to see the jet lag remedy you modern enlightened types are offering to replace the helpful effects that people above report.</I>

Here's what I would offer: NOT nothing - which is what homeopathy is. Here's a few somethings: Plenty of water, fresh air, some sunlight (if possible), and if you want to take a pill maybe try vitamin B-12.

<i>And I'll tell my friend who fell off a moving horse onto a sharp corner, with more than one body falling on top of her, that she probably wouldn't have been sore or bruised the next day anyway. Pure and Simple</i>

A friend of mine was in a bad car accident. The passenger compartment was crushed. Because he wasn't wearing a seat-belt he was thrown from the vehicle and survived. Should I take from this story to never wear seat-belts? "Pure and simple"? Or maybe this is just an anecdote...

"And for those who ask, "what’s the harm?", you may direct your question to Thomas Sam and his wife Manju Sam, whose nine-month-old daughter died because of their homeopathic beliefs."
Above quote from "Homeopathy Kills" - http://goo.gl/3F2qrF

BigRuss

<i>In my job I speak with parents who swear by homeopathic teething tablets and cold remedies for young children. Are these babies experiencing the placebo effect?</i>

Yes.

Next question.

bvlenci

Melatonin, which is the hormone the body uses to govern sleeping/waking cycles, has been shown to have a beneficial effect on resetting sleep cycles after crossing time zones.

However, when you arrive in Europe after an overnight trip from the US, the real problem isn't jet lag but the fact that you lose six or more hours. If your flight is at 5 PM, and you're leaving from the east coast of the US, that's already 11 PM in western Europe. By the time the meal service is over, it will be at least 1 AM at your destination. Then they'll wake you up an hour before your arrival, probably at 5 or 6 AM local time. If you're lucky, you'll get four hours of sleep, and if you have trouble sleeping on planes, you may not sleep at all. Even if you don't get jet lag (which I've never had in my life), you'll be exhausted. I would never plan a tour or a museum visit on the day of arrival.