Goodbye Jet Lag! Great Design, easy to use and it works
Tried out Time Shifter after a friend of mine highly recommended it. Being a frequent traveler and living in NY... every trip back to Europe was followed by a hideous 3 day, zombie-like, mid conversation dozing off, jet lag. After trying everything from Boise canceling headphones, over dosing on coffee, use sleep pills and much more... I Had nothing to lose but TimeShifter a shot. Long story short. IT WORKS! Arrived in Europe and was up and about. Obviously one has to follow in order for it to work. Although I didn’t stick 100% to eat because life happens, it worked. I felt a tiny bit of tiredness the day of arrival but back on top of the world in the morning. I highly recommend trying it. The next test run will be traveling to Australia... if the Jetlag can be avoided here as well... sign me up for a lifetime membership please!
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Fantastic App for Travelers
I can’t recall where I heard about the Timeshifter app but it has been fantastic! I often take 7-10 day trips to Europe. Before using this app, I’d be on a new time zone just long enough to start to get acclimated and then find myself back home and severely jet lagged. Now, we’ve all experienced the not so subtle jabs of coworkers who didn’t get to take vacation when we returned from our trip tired and barely functional. Not anymore! No one can even tell that I left the country. I come back and hit the ground running. It’s easy to use and best of all...it really works! Sure, sometimes I look funny wearing my blue-blocking or sunglasses at the prescribed times but I’d rather that than the feeling of jet lag and lack of productivity of the past. I’m sold and have a been touting the benefits of this app to friends and flight attendants.
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I’m sold
I started using this program a couple of years before it became available via an app. To the extent that I follow it, I get excellent results.
I use it mostly for vacations. I usually follow the pre-travel program rigorously before outbound travel but not very well before return travel; I give higher priority to enjoying my vacation.
Particularly impressive was my experience when I spent 35 hours, and two overnight flights, traveling from Seattle to Botswana. My first afternoon in Botswana I took a game tour with some tourists who were amazed that I had just arrived and was functioning normally. I had gone to Botswana to work and had scheduled a recovery day before starting work. The recovery day was quite unnecessary.
I use it mostly for vacations. I usually follow the pre-travel program rigorously before outbound travel but not very well before return travel; I give higher priority to enjoying my vacation.
Particularly impressive was my experience when I spent 35 hours, and two overnight flights, traveling from Seattle to Botswana. My first afternoon in Botswana I took a game tour with some tourists who were amazed that I had just arrived and was functioning normally. I had gone to Botswana to work and had scheduled a recovery day before starting work. The recovery day was quite unnecessary.
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Life saver
After suffering truly horrible jet lag for 10 days following a long-haul flight I decided I needed to find a solution and, whilst researching online, stumbled across the Timeshifter app. I bought some melatonin but on testing it out a few nights before my subsequent journey I discovered it had an adverse effect on me, so I used Timeshifter without melatonin. I followed the instructions largely, though not 100%, and have to say had no jet lag to speak of, even after traveling East - the source of all my past adjustment problems. I'm so delighted with this result and recommend Timeshifter to anyone making time zone jumps. I'm sure the damage to my body has been significantly reduced too.
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Now getting little or insignificant jet lag
As a regular long haul air traveller I was keen to use this App to reduce my jet lag and have now been a subscriber for over 8 months. During that time I have used the App’s programme for 4 return long haul flights involving time zone differences of 4-9 hours. It is not always possible to follow the exact timings of when you need to sleep on planes but I have always followed the advice on caffeine intake and exposure to or avoiding bright lights. I only used melatonin for the last trip as it’s difficult to obtain in the UK . I can safely say it has made a marked difference to the amount of jet lag experienced which was negligible on a trip just done with a time difference of 5 hours, as compared to all of my fellow travellers (not using the App). What I like about the App is that it is based on the established scientific understanding of sleep ( known as chronobiology).in addition, it is personalised for you taking into account your normal sleep habits eg when you usually wake up/ go to bed and how long you like to sleep. Once that’s in the system all you need to do is put in all your flight details of departure and arrival locations with timings , including any stop overs. The App then works out your programme which is displayed as an easy to follow timeline chart with symbols .
I would thoroughly recommend this App to all regular long haul travellers as it has worked for me every time!
I would thoroughly recommend this App to all regular long haul travellers as it has worked for me every time!
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London- LA round trip
I followed the plan very diligently, though with a little scepticism and am more than delighted with the results. As my trip was a short, wedding dress shopping with my daughter who lives in LA, one (5 days), adjusting immediately to local time meant I could take advantage of every moment. When looking at my return Timeshifter plan, I realised I had entered the incorrect flight departure time. I used the Timeshifter chat and had a very quick response, where the problem was resolved by deleting the return journey plan and re-entering the correct flight time.
On the return journey I was not popular with my immediate neighbours when I turned on my reading light. However, I feel it certainly assisted my adjustment to uk time.
Once home, I had to fight against the urge to sleep in early evening, but persevered and had a full night’s sleep and since then have felt completely back on UK time.
I’ll definitely be using Timeshifter again in October for the wedding in LA!
On the return journey I was not popular with my immediate neighbours when I turned on my reading light. However, I feel it certainly assisted my adjustment to uk time.
Once home, I had to fight against the urge to sleep in early evening, but persevered and had a full night’s sleep and since then have felt completely back on UK time.
I’ll definitely be using Timeshifter again in October for the wedding in LA!
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Outstanding
Entered travel details for a trip from Eastern Timezone to Japan and was provided a plan. The plan delivered guidance on when to sleep, seek/avoid light, caffeine, and take melatonin (which I substituted with Tylenol PM without acetaminophen). I followed the plan closely, but didn’t really do anything special with light aside from be aware of light around me and make small adjustments such as opening or closing plane window. I arrived in Japan and actually had energy to explore some the first night there and got a full night’s sleep. My first full day in Japan I felt completely normal despite the 14 hour offset, and the normal feeling persisted for the entire trip. Upon return, I again followed the plan, and had normal energy for work my first day back. Coworkers were actually surprised by my alertness. I’m a very routine oriented person and don’t typically adapt so well to changes. This app is amazing and completely worth the in-app purchase, gave me an extra day of vacation and extra day of productivity upon return. Also very well designed.
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I’m sold! This app is amazing!
Recently flew from JFK-HKG-ICN-HKG-JFK. I was worried because I usually get pretty hard with jet-lag, even on flying shorter distances - and I really had to hit the ground running when I arrived. Well I can honestly say that I never experienced any jet-lag effects during my trip - or upon my return. . My colleagues were all complaining and they would hit a wall at around 3-4pm and complain that they woke up in the middle of the night and could not go back to sleep. Meanwhile I was bright eyed and bushy tailed. One of the people I was visiting in Seoul, even commented on how refreshed I looked, given I had flown almost 20 hrs the previous day. I followed the app as close as I could. I also utilized those blue light blocking glasses when I was supposed to be avoiding light - but couldn’t completely control my environment. Regarding melatonin, I find that most people take too high of a dose. I would start with a 2.5 mg dose prior to sleep. If I woke up at least 4 hrs before I planned to - and felt I would have trouble falling back to sleep, I would take another .5 to 1.0 mg dose and would fall right back to sleep. On my outbound 16 hr flight to Hong Kong, my flight departed at 9am - and the app instructed me to sleep the first 7 hrs of the flight. Taking the low dose melatonin each time I woke up (approx) every two hrs - really helped. Will definitely subscribe to the annual plan and rely on this for all future long-haul trips.
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It really works!
I travel a lot and there are all sorts of tricks folks recommend to manage jet lag - I was looking for something that was actually proven in an research type of way (I’m a technical guy).
I tried Timeshifter on my recent trip from Houston to Guam since I was crossing dateline - i plugged in my flight schedules and dates for the trip and it gave me a nice detailed plan when steps to take each day (including days prior to travel and after return). It also sent me me regular notifications of each step while I was on the trip
What I found was that if you follow the recommended sleep times, light, and caffeine intake/avoids - it really made jet lag a non-event. I didn’t quite follow it religiously - I might miss the sleep times by an hour or so and light recommendations are sometimes not easily accomplished BUT even with this effort I found myself easily adjusting to time zones and more importantly the return home was really easy.
My colleagues were all dragging about and saying I’m so tired - I was like I’m not - let’s work!
So I guess you can called me a true believer in timeshifter and will use it in my long trips always.
PS I asked several questions along the way and I always go a response from them very quickly - that’s nice
I tried Timeshifter on my recent trip from Houston to Guam since I was crossing dateline - i plugged in my flight schedules and dates for the trip and it gave me a nice detailed plan when steps to take each day (including days prior to travel and after return). It also sent me me regular notifications of each step while I was on the trip
What I found was that if you follow the recommended sleep times, light, and caffeine intake/avoids - it really made jet lag a non-event. I didn’t quite follow it religiously - I might miss the sleep times by an hour or so and light recommendations are sometimes not easily accomplished BUT even with this effort I found myself easily adjusting to time zones and more importantly the return home was really easy.
My colleagues were all dragging about and saying I’m so tired - I was like I’m not - let’s work!
So I guess you can called me a true believer in timeshifter and will use it in my long trips always.
PS I asked several questions along the way and I always go a response from them very quickly - that’s nice
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