Taylor Swift joked that 'jet lag is a choice.' A sleep expert has thoughts about that
Plus, six tips on how to stay alert and minimize sluggishness when traveling rapidly across multiple time zones.
Taylor Swift caused a stir after the Super Bowl this year by answering a question about her flight (on her private jet, no less) from Tokyo to Las Vegas. When her boyfriend Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs asked her "how do you not have jet lag right now?" she responded, perhaps jokingly, "jet lag is a choice."
But sleep experts like Jade Wu would like Swift and others to know that "jet lag is very real. It's biologically ingrained."
Jet lag is a form of circadian misalignment, an umbrella term for any time your body clock
