andy grayson

eat cherries, fight jet lag

I travel quite a bit, and I recently read a blurb in the NYT about using cherries to fight jet lag that I thought I'd pass along to all of you fellow travelers.

Apparently cherries naturally contain melatonin, the hormone our brain produces affecting our biological clock. Apparently the brain's production of melatonin is inhibited by light and permitted by darkness. Which is why, as you might guess, when we fly across timezones and are exposed to differing periods of light or darkness, our production of melatonin is upset and we feel the effects as jetlag.

Dried cherries and cherry juice have concentrated amounts of cherries and eating them while traveling can help with our jetlag. Even cherry pie.

The article says that heading East (e.g. – NY to London) you should eat a handful of dried cherries a half hour before you sleep on a long flight and then again each night of your trip for as many hours as the time change. (5 hours = eat cherries for 5 nights) Heading West, do the same routine but eat a handful of cherries the night before your departure.

home

I finally made it back to SF after a week of brain (and blame) storming, client glad-handing, and some strategery chatter for good measure. My flight back West was alright, despite some seriously bumpy stretches over the rockies. I don't know how people fly in & out of Denver. It seems like your flights would always be half full of turbulence.

When I got to SFO, a really friendly cabbie drove me back to the city, but I had to keep myself from laughing because he drove like an 82 year-old. He hugged the steering wheel so close that I wasn't quite sure how he turned it. The pic below doesn't quite do it justice.

He told me that he was from China and I thought it was cool that he was already excited for the Olympics, which China is hosting next year. He had these stickers on both windows.

The city looked good and sunny as usual.

LA

So we were in Los Angeles today. First things first, we're at the Mondrian Hotel – which is quite nice. Very LA.

Chris showed me Supreme, Flight Club, and The Hundreds – all sneaker/clothing boutiques in LA.

The Hundreds

Flight Club

Supreme