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Everybody who long distances hates jet lag. Traveling across time zones upsets your body . People can have jet lag for three or four days after getting off the airplane. You can be awake at 3.00am and ready for bed after lunch. That might be over. Researchers from Kyoto University in Japan are close to making a drug for jet lag. They said the drug can help people change to a time zone in 24 hours. Head researcher Yoshiaki Yamaguchi said his team has found the body's " button" in the brain. This controls how the body adjusts to sleep patterns. New drugs could "press" the reset button to make jet lag less .

The jet-lag drug could also have other health . People who work different and night workers could take the drug. This means these workers will not be so from working at irregular or hours. Airline pilots and cabin could be among those who most benefit from the new drug. The drug might also be useful for people with (the inability to sleep). Wikipedia says jet lag usually happens after a change of three time zones or . Some people get it after just a single time zone difference. It usually takes one day to recover from one time zone. Jet lag is only a few old. It happened after people started flying in jet .

 


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