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Everybody who flies long distances hates jet lag. Traveling across different time zones upsets your body clock. People can have jet lag three or four days getting the airplane. You can be wide awake 3.00am and ready bed lunch. That might soon be over. Researchers Kyoto University Japan are close to making a drug jet lag. They said the drug can help people change to a new time zone just 24 hours. Head researcher Yoshiaki Yamaguchi said his team has found the body's "reset button" the brain. This controls how the body adjusts to changing sleep patterns. New drugs could "press" the reset button to make jet lag less troublesome.

The jet-lag drug could also have other health benefits. People who work different shifts and night workers could take the drug. This means these workers will not be so stressed working irregular or unsociable hours. Airline pilots and cabin crew could be among those who most benefit the new drug. The drug might also be useful people insomnia (the inability to sleep). Wikipedia says jet lag usually happens a change three time zones or more. Some people get it just a single time zone difference. It usually takes one day to recover crossing one time zone. Jet lag is only a few decades old. It happened people started flying jet airplanes.