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5 Tips To Quickly Get Over Jet Lag

Jet lag is awful. I’m writing this at 5am after returning to California from Japan. Yesterday I woke up at noon. This morning I woke up at 3am and couldn’t fall back asleep.

Jet lag typically hits hardest when you travel east and cross two or more timezones. The resulting chaos on your circadian rhythm can wreak havoc on your health and routine, especially if you need to return to work quickly after traveling.

Thankfully, there are ways to quickly mitigate the effects of jet lag and getting your circadian rhythm back on track.

2 Detrimental Ways Weed Affects Your Sleep

People often use cannabis as a sleep aid, saying that it allows them to fall asleep faster. Until recently, we didn’t have a good understanding of how weed affects sleep. However, emerging evidence shows that using cannabis as a sleep aid could be detrimental to sleep.

Former pot heads always tell me about how much better their sleep is after they abstain from weed for at least 2 weeks or quit completely. They also say that their brain fog disappears, their anxiety is better, and their memory improves significantly. Funny enough, all of these can be tied to the improvement in sleep quality.

Chronic use of cannabis has two distinct effects on your sleep.

5 Ways to Hack and Instantly Improve Your Sleep

Modern society has gifted us with many miraculous advancements. We can instantly send messages across the world, access an unprecedented amount of information (and misinformation), and darkness is no longer a large part of our natural selection.

However, this modernity has robbed us of a vital part of our health…

Sleep.

This is the REAL Foundation of Your Health and Fitness…

Look at any fitness magazine, blog, Instagram influencer, and you will be inundated with dozens of new “discoveries” that claim to be the next best thing, promising to bolster your health and “optimizing” your wellness with gimmicks and hacks.

It might be a new diet trend, soft tissue gun, apparel, supplement, or god forbid, another shake weight.

Remember that the old cliche is true: if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. There is no way to replace a foundation of good habits and behaviors with gimmicks.

If you don’t do this ONE thing, you can say goodbye to a majority of the gains from all of your efforts…

That one thing… is…