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Sleep aids for and after the flight

So normally after a long flight I am tired. If I arrive home at 10:00 PM I go to bed around 11:00 PM. The jet lag problems start when I wake up - usually at 3:00 or 4:00 AM. Then my whole schedule gets destroyed.

When I arrived in America in July I took Champion Nutrition Sleep Aid. I don't work for them or anything so this is an independent review. I slept 7 or 8 hours and had no problems adjusting to American time since I got off to a good start.

Just recently, I was flying from New York to Seoul. We left New York about 1:00 AM Thursday night / Friday morning and arrived after a 14 hour flight in Seoul at 5:00 AM. After the first meal on the plane my wife and I both took the Champion Nutrition Sleep Aid and we're convinced we slept much better on the flight than we usually do.

Now it's 10:30 PM in Seoul. I am tired and I'm going to bed. I'm taking Sleep Aid again. Hopefully tomorrow morning I'll be blogging about what a great night's sleep I had and how I'm back on schedule.

If you want to try an over-the-counter sleep medicine, the only two I've used are Champion Nutrition Sleep Aid (I feel weird plugging them so much in this article when I'm not getting paid) and Nocturnabol. They both usually work for me.

Has anyone else had success with some sort of supplement for sleeping through long, boring, uncomfortable flights or for overcoming jet lag? I've heard of people using melatonin - I've never tried just plain melatonin but I think all the sleep supplements have it.

Posted by James Trotta at August 29, 2009 10:23 PM