The jet lag is just a subject of feeling tired of few days, for many people. But researchers warned that it could also play mayhem with your memory prolonged the holiday is over. Various trails have suggested that repeated retuning of the body clock affected memory hub of the brain.
It escorted to forgetfulness and made it more difficult to learn things. The research team from the University of California focused hamsters to six hour time shifts twice a week for four weeks. As anticipated, during the jet lag period, the hamsters had problem in learning simple tasks. But the effects kept on after normal sleep of animals.
In tests on hamsters, the effects lasted for at least a month. It is believed by researchers that it has insinuations for frequent fliers as well as shift workers. The study published in the journal PLoS ONE reported that the disturbance to their body clock, or circadian rhythms, also intended that the creatures had fewer mature cells in memory hub of the brain.
Whether you are a flight attendant or rotating shift worker, repeated disruption of circadian rhythms is probably going to have a long-term impact on your cognitive behavior and function, said researcher Dr Lance Kriegsfeld. Earlier studies have linked the continuous crossing of time zones with higher occurrence of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, cancer and learning and memory problems.
But the studies have not observed if the effects carry on after the body clock re-tunes itself. The proofs are devastating that disruptions in circadian timing have a direct impact on humans. Jet lag tends to kick in on journeys that engross travelling crossways more than three time zones, added Dr Kriegsfeld.