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How to Travel Without Wrecking Your Sleep and Brain

How to Travel Without Wrecking Your Sleep and Brain

Update: 2025-07-17
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International travel is brutal on your mind, body, and sleep. We discuss the recent data and I share my current jet lag protocol (still evolving) to help minimize the damage after long flights.


Study Links: 


Olympic Athletes + Jet Lag: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.998484/full


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Chapters: 


00:00 - Introduction


01:08 - Where’s Kate? 


02:00 - Bryan’s Travel Experiment  


03:44 - Debunking the ‘CEO Lifestyle’ 


06:28 - Why Jet Lag Happens  


08:00 - Jet Lag Recovery 


14:00 - Improving Sleep 


17:07 - Is Fighting Jet Lag Possible? 


21:44 - Olympic Athlete Study 


24:42 - Travel Rule of Thumb  


33:55 - Shifting Your Mindset  


35:10 - Setting Limits for Travel  


44:25 - Jet Lag Protocol  


50:41 - Stimulants During Travel


52:04 - Cryotherapy/Cold Therapy 


53:00 - Episode Takeaways



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How to Travel Without Wrecking Your Sleep and Brain

How to Travel Without Wrecking Your Sleep and Brain

Bryan Johnson