Hey guys, Matt here for Science or Fiction. Flying to far off destinations and exploring
a new city is great, except for the jet lag you inevitably get after you land. But that’s just flying, right? It’s not like you can just make a plane that
magically gets rid of all the physical effects of traveling through the sky at around 35,000
feet for several hours. That’s just some crazy fantasy that none
of us will experience in our lifetimes… it says that right there next to me doesn’t it. Yeah, thought so. If you’ve ever been on a long flight across
multiple time zones, you have probably experienced the unfortunate symptoms of jet lag. Simply put, jet lag is a temporary sleep disorder
that typically occurs when you cross two or more time zones. And there’s a pretty easy explanation as
to why it happens. When you take off from one time zone and land
in another, your body’s circadian rhythms can’t just magically adapt, because your
body still thinks you are in the time zone from which you came. This can leave you feeling irritable, tired,
and it can even cause stomach problems. Fortunately, it is temporary. It varies from person to person how long the
symptoms last, but typically it takes a day per time zone crossed before your body can
adapt to the new rhythm. But if you are going on a shorter trip, it
can also put a major kink in your travel plans. I mean, who wants to get all the way to Berg
en and be too tired to explore the exciting, second-largest city in Norway? Don’t you want to see this bird? How about this rack of sweaters? Now despite what this article seems to say,
there is no total cure for jet lag (some things just require time, guys), but Boeing has designed
a plane that can minimize its symptoms by using air pressure and increased humidity. Most planes are currently pressurized to simulate
the conditions a person would feel at 6 to 8,000 feet, which isn’t bad considering
that most planes fly between 30 and 40 thousand feet. But 8,000 feet is still a pretty high altitude
that can lead to symptoms like headache and nausea, similar to what’s called “altitude
sickness”. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner family of airplanes
is pressurized to a new maximum level of 6,000 feet; 2,000 feet lower than most other aircraft. Altitude chamber tests show that because the
body absorbs 8% more oxygen into the blood at this altitude, passengers experience fewer
headaches and less dizziness and fatigue. That lower cabin pressurization is possible
due to increased use of composites. These new Airplanes are 50 percent composite
by weight. Carbon fiber reinforced polymer, also known
as CFRP, resists fatigue and corrosion more than traditional metals used to build planes,
and therefore allows for more internal pressurization.[1] CFRP also means that planes can withstand
more humidity. Metal can corrode when exposed to humid air,
but that’s not as much of an issue with the new material. Now, that matters to you because, while you
might not notice a change in humidity in the moment, you likely will notice that your throat,
eyes, and nose are less dry when you land. Now, again, these engineering changes don’t
cure jet lag, but the lower cabin pressurization and increased humidity will make you feel
more comfortable during your trip to Bergen. That being said, I’d sleep on the plane
if you can. Unfortunately, there’s still no total cure
for jumping time zones. For more epic stories of innovation that shaped
our future check out THE AGE OF AEROSPACE.COM Can you get jet lag flying on a helicopter? I guess then it wouldn’t be jet lag. Helicopter-lag? I know you would get a headache because helicopters
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Curing it is as easy as simulating the timezone of the destination right inside the plane 🙂
(Dimming of lights, Food on meals time of the destination etc )
What if companies use some illumination trick?
Anyone not understand how this helps jet Lag? From what I know, Jet lag is when u go across many time zones and therefore when it’s 11pm there, ur body thinks is 6pm because it’s not a machine that can just “update its time”, therefore, ur sleep schedule is thrown off for like 2days. So how does making you feel more comfortable ON a plane make you have lesser symptoms of jet Lag?? There’s simply no way around it if u want to get to X country in a decent matter of time. Otherwise you’d have to stop in each time zone and catch up. Or maybe be sedated on the plane at intervals that would align with the current time zone’s regular sleep schedule. But then maybe u could just do it once for the final destination time zone, but then you’d probably lose a day. Unless they time it so that . Imma stop talking… k.
"Have We Really Engineered a Plane That Reduces Jet Lag?" would be the correct title, but I guess that doesnt give as many views.
Also, using plastics instead of metals to build planes sound like a very bad idea, climate-wise. We should be using less plastic, not more.
"Brought to you by Boeing" so let's not mention that Airbus does the exact same thing with the A350 and that it is a trend in throughout the industry.
It's ok to be sponsored, but being this biased is terrible for your credibility.
Dafuq please also use Meters, just put them in
Metric system maybe?
That's just low quality ad, poor showing seeker, poor showing.
This is bullshit! Hahah, why do you call this a cure for jetlag you idiots…
My question is when will they fix the chair arrangements that plague people like us who are 6,4 with long legs instead of us being cramped? Greedy jerks…
I've had chronic insomnia since childhood. I went to Japan 2 years ago, never experienced jet lag and the time zone difference (EST to JST) actually temporarily "cured" my insomnia while i was there. Never slept better, after a month I had to come back no Jet coming back either but the insomnia was back as soon as I landed
Cool. Applied science.
More legroom in Economy class would be nice though.
Isn't is technically higher cabin pressurization man?
thats just a marketing scheme
Just stack us horizontally so we can sleep, and let us walk around and do stuff in a common area.
oh u didnt know? red and blue light therapy to adjust your circadian rythm exists, plus red and infrared are important for mitochondia to function.
Very blatant advertisement. A shame for such a great channel. “Brought to you by” shouldn’t mean “blatant advertisement for”… embarrassing for a science channel.
So, no?
The thing that helps me the most is mood lights, the simulate the time of the destination your going to, so if its sun set at your destination they simulate that.
https://www.change.org/p/council-of-the-european-union-peticion-p%C3%ABr-t%C3%AB-p%C3%ABrfunduar-diskriminimin-e-popullsis%C3%AB-%C3%A7ame?recruiter=889972341&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition
What the new plane does has nothing to do with jet lag prevention as you literally describe in the video, but yet somehow the conclusion is completely the opposite. How you managed that?
never really had to deal with stuff like that, my sleep cycle is fucked anyways, so i don't notice a difference
Really thought you were wearing purple eye shadow and slaying it.
I dont even get jet lagged… I mean I am writing this comment at 1am
Adderall cures my jet lag. Aways works.
2:46 did u mean to say "higher cabin pressurization"?
Do chickens experience jet lag?
Science videos ALWAYS say "We did this", and "We invented that". I know I sure as hell didn't do anything and neither did you, and yet WE all take credit for a scientist(s) work. Then science videos also commit the heinous crime of CONSTANTLY just saying "Scientists discovered this", and "Scientist created that".
Scientist are hard working, and hard studying people who practically kill themselves experimenting all day long to figure out our world and make advances in knowledge. Yet they personally get NO credit because no one takes the time to find out their names. I find that disgusting, as scientists should not remain ambiguous after such break throughs, I believe they need more detailed and respectable media coverage.
This is an ad. I'm not interested in science that was paid for by a specific company. I don't remember DNews being this way. This isn't unbiased. Going miss the old crew (DNews peeps) and some of the new crew but I'm not here for ad reads, I'm here for science. Unsubscribing tbh it's been a long time coming (well since this became Seeker, at least).
I don’t really get affected by jet lag and if I do it’s at most an hour even if I go from US to east Asia
Ads like these are fine, as long as science results are neutral and not manipulated by company.
The answer is no.
just set your clock to the timezone of the place you are going to travel to before going on your trip
I really enjoyed this Boeing ad. Can't wait to buy my own Dreamliner!
I don’t believe in Jet Lag.
Click bait
Nope
Matt is a cool guy… on wii sports
I was sure I had my Ad blocker on.
what does the plane have to do withjet lag.? I thout jet lag is due to time zone differences.
How do you build a plane around that concept? That's like building a house around lights and electrical outlets. You could retrofit any plane by just shutting of passenger cabin lights. Done.
Trace on Vacations !??
Metric system plz. There are people who don't live in the u.s.
Click bait.
I don’t get sick when I fly lol
Dry eyes and altitude sickness on planes… are a thing? I guess I didn't notice. Greetings from colorful, dry and mile-high Colorado.
Why they feel they have to repeat the video title and explain what it is snd waste 1/4 of the video before actually addressong the question is beyond me.
I never knew it was 1 day per timezone…but it's pretty accurate!
I have flown to Hawaii which is three hours ahead of where I live which is on the West Coast and I've never experienced jet lag but I could be one of the lucky ones it doesn't affect to as severe of a degree
Thumbnail made me yawn
We had planes that prevented jet lag. The main feature was leg room. Now? Now we don’t have leg room, so we get jet lag.
Let us sleep, Boeing
I haven't gotten jet lag for years, and I have 1-2 short long haul trips and a RTW trip each year.
It is not that hard to avoid, provided you can sleep on planes, plan for the flight and change to the timezone you are flying to when you board.
The only flights where I have some sort of issue are the short 6 hour overnight flights going 1 or 2 timezones (eg SIN-HND) or the 11 hour day flights from Asia to Europe (eg NRT-LHR).
Nothing is more soothing than the sound of gun and an extraction chopper than when your zone has become very hot.
Sounds like snakes would prefer these 787 conditions as well.
Maybe if the airplane could automatically adjust the lighting to match the time zone you’re going to? Oh, and one free ambien during the nighttime of new time zone too 😆
My house is at 8,000ft. I hate when I have to go down the mountain to lower altitudes it makes me feel shitty. So a plane ride would make me feel right at home.
title is misleading
wow-matt
Lower altitude equals higher pressure not lower pressure.
You could be me and live at above 9000ft and have lower humidity on average so jet flight is like being home.
Video had nothing to do about jet lag prevention, it's just an ad, but the logic is so stupid I felt like I just raped myself by watching this video.
Yeah he clearly said that it won't help with jet lag(mid way through the video), so why tf would you put jet lag in the title and talk about it in the beginning? It's like yeah he clearly admitted this doesn't actually help with jet lag, it just makes you comfortable while flying, so you won't get headaches etc…but why even talk about it when there is no real correlation?
One could even argue that they knew this would make you wonder how they could make you not have jet lag on airplanes, which sounds ridiculous, knowing you would click on it just to make you watch this shit video.
I would rather have watched a funny advertisement, which still followed some form of logic instead of this stupid shit. Actually I would even feel good if you tricked me to watch an real ad, which would have been funny, instead of this hypocritical shit, trying to justify they put in an ad, and not just an ad, a shitty ad that made 0 sense. Fire the idiot who wrote this stupid script, jesus.
im lucky, i dont get jet lag very often when travelling. (i set my phone to the timezone im landing in and go by that. means you generaslly end up with a long day and a long night )
Click-bait much?
Metric units please??! Come on. Even if just conversions. Most of the world is already using metric, and there are pockets of support for metric adoption in the US, especially in the scientific community. As a science channel, you should at least give metric some visibility.
They seriously need to do a test tube plane, they could pack people in but more then that we'd all get to propperly lay down!
3:23 minutes for a simple answer.. No, they haven't. You freakin sell out
So, I have experienced air sickness on every flight I've taken bar one. If I could get into a plane and not have to worry about that experience I would pay A MINT for it. Now all I have to do is make sure that all my flights happen on 787s…
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Yea she got that gaming chair ez pz free elo
My sleep was fucked anyway, am from UK I want to Australia I was perfectly fine.
Lol sissies
Bergen is in my time zone. Since you're assuming everyone who watches this are American, I might as well unsubscribe.
You got so close – almost saying Hypobaria – Tissue Decompression!
But then you reverted back to the same old Hypoxia story – the wrong story.
@2:45 it is a Higher Cabin Pressurization. Not a lower one 😉 .. not to be confused with the same pressure at a lower altitude.
Obvious question, why not just boost the oxygen percentage in the plane so that the amount that's absorbed into the body at 6000-8000 feet is equivalent of what would be absorbed on sealevel earth? No extra pressurisation needed for that, just add a little oxygen from the oxygen tanks so it's up to say 25% oxygen in the atmosphere in there instead of the usual 21%. Would have the same effect wouldn't it
Have traveled to the other side of the world by plane a couple of times. Never got jet lag.
No metric systems video sucks
first class can do the work
2:10 Is that Russian foreign passport?
never experienced jet lag ever my body just quickly adapted to the new timezone as if it were nothing
Kinda clickbait
Shouldn't it be called turbofan lag these days? I mean when was the last time an airliner was powered by turbojets?? Maybe we can call it "fan lag" for short 😉
most symptons we've labeled as "jetlag" are caused by exposure to high levels of radiation higher in our athmosphere, 1 hour at 30kft equeals 100 full body x-rays. If they are thinking of fighting the exposure through actually protecting the passengers with smart engineering to some small extent, that should be possible. It's just not as cheap to Shield a plane with Led.
https://youtu.be/PctREJCW0xU
So about teleportation, i heard we will never be able to leave the local cluster because of the universe expanding. What if we teleport to another galaxy outside our own cluster?
So this has nothing to do with jetlag; it's about marginally increased comfort.
I dont get jet lagg is it because i dont keep track of time? I go to sleep about 3 hours late so around 3 its the same every time zone
I was going to like, but this was just a HUGE advert for Boeing…
Not very scientific and didn't give any answers…
I thought this would be about blue light to stay up and orange-ish light to sleep.
Impossible. Jetlag has nothing to do with pressure, humidity, yada yada yada. If your body feels it's bedtime but it's morning when you get off the plane, that won't do diddly squat
Just get a couple of whiskeys and sleep it off until you land.
This is very impressive
Really poor reporting construction and logic – Premise: Jet lag is caused by crossing time zones; Solution: lower cabin altitude and increased humidity. See the problem?
Start you story by introducing the problem being solved (low air pressure and humidity cause x,y and z symptoms when flying), not by confusing it with a separate issue that is not being addressed (flying has a negative affect on circadian rhythms). I really question the state of journalism when a "professional" can't construct a report that would pass a high school English class.
So, it prevents altitude sickness, not jetlag?
This is pure marketing b.s. no real science in this video. I am disappointed.
I started watching this video and started yawning
If there is no cure why claim you have solved a problem CFRP has a whole host of issues not yet fully understood to the engineering community
That's my secret cap, I'm always jet lagged.
Hey that should also make the food taste better. For those who don't know the reason plane food tastes so bad is because of the low pressure and humidity not the quality of the actual food.
They should do an episode on just composites!! Maybe the cutting edge stuff I don't get to work with. Also maybe an intro to composites for those that don't know.