I've flown back and forth Between Toronto and Amsterdam on a two week schedule for over two years. My take away lesson is this:
The body can adapt fairly easily to a longer day but it hates shortening days (and that's my body, so YMMV).
My trick to deal with jet-lag was very simple. Extend your day. Make sure you have plenty of low energy things to do but stay awake on the day that you travel.
Going 'west' makes your day 6 hours longer, going 'east' then makes your day 18 hours longer. 18 is pushing it a bit so I usually would go to bed around 10 in the evening and sleep for 9 hours instead of going to bed at 12 and sleeping for 7.
This simple trick seemed to work for me and I never suffered from jet lag after I started doing it, before it was absolute hell. It would take me roughly until the time that I was ready to leave again to acclimatize.
The body can adapt fairly easily to a longer day but it hates shortening days (and that's my body, so YMMV).
My trick to deal with jet-lag was very simple. Extend your day. Make sure you have plenty of low energy things to do but stay awake on the day that you travel.
Going 'west' makes your day 6 hours longer, going 'east' then makes your day 18 hours longer. 18 is pushing it a bit so I usually would go to bed around 10 in the evening and sleep for 9 hours instead of going to bed at 12 and sleeping for 7.
This simple trick seemed to work for me and I never suffered from jet lag after I started doing it, before it was absolute hell. It would take me roughly until the time that I was ready to leave again to acclimatize.