Intercontinental air travel: The cabin atmosphere and circadian realignment

摘要

This editorial covers five reviews on jet-lag published in the present volume of the journal.1"5 The reviews are concerned, in varying detail, with the physiology and pharmacology of the sleep-wake and of the circadian systems as these relate to jet-lag, and so provide a useful background on which the management of jet-lag can be based. Indeed, the reviewers offer 'sound advice' on how travellers should conduct themselves before, during and after the flight-presumably based, at least in part, on their personal experiences, and that advice provides the means by which travellers can develop their own strategies linked to their particular journey. The fatigue experienced with intercontinental travel and increasing the rapidity of re-adaptation to a new time have also been explored, and it is these matters that are discussed in this editorial.