Viagra helps with jet lag, “could be important for airline crews”.
UK’s Daily Mirror reports today that sex drug Viagra could help travelers recover from jet lag. This works on west-to-east travel, and so far has been proven to work on hamsters:
Experiments on hamsters found they climbed on to wheels 25 to 50 per cent faster if they were given the sex drug after having their sleep disturbed. The drug works by interfering with an enzyme which regulates the body clock.
The kicker comes at the end, where the report goes on to say this Viagra-thing “could be important for airline crews regularly crossing time zones”…. yeah, I bet it would.
Read the article, VIAGRA JETLAG ‘CURE’, here.
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