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Jet lag is an unavoidable part of long-haul travel, but IV therapy can help you recover fast. Studies show that 94% of travelers experience jet lag, leading to fatigue, dehydration, and brain fog. Instead of losing vacation time feeling drained, a jet lag recovery IV drip replenishes hydration, vitamins, and electrolytes to restore energy in minutes. Here’s how mobile IV therapy helps frequent flyers stay energized and ready to go.
1. Recover from Jet Lag Faster with IV Therapy
The Problem: No one wants to spend valuable vacation time asleep, but if you’re flying across multiple time zones, your body will take time to adjust. It takes the average person about one day per hour “lost” to catch back up. For shorter vacations, this can mean your body never fully adjusts to where you are, giving you some serious brain fog and fatigue.
Why does jet lag happen? Simply, your body’s internal clock “lags” behind the jet that’s taken you from Vegas to New York, or Los Angeles to Tokyo. Your circadian rhythm has been disrupted by exposure to more amounts of light or darkness than usual, which means the normal body processes tied to that rhythm, like sleep, are also disrupted.
If you’re experiencing jet lag on the return leg of your trip, that can pose another problem: Having to go back to work, or even deal with household chores, is the last thing anyone wants to do while feeling post-vacay depression and fatigue. The double-whammy of a vacation ending and your body’s readjustment to its normal time zone can make for a very unpleasant last day of PTO or a very unproductive first day back.
There are non-medical interventions for jet lag. If your flight is during a time you’re usually asleep, sleeping on the plane can help. Avoiding bright lights in the morning and keeping active during the afternoon is another remedy. Keeping to your home time zone schedule can help, though that’s not exactly practical when traveling very long distances.
Sometimes, these hacks just aren’t enough. This is where IV therapy comes in. Getting a straight shot of compounds that feed the powerhouse of your cells can help you overcome the dreaded effects of long-haul air travel.
Your Solution: Energy Booster IV Therapy Drip
2. Fight Airplane Dehydration with an IV Drip
The Problem: The air on planes is dry. Like, really, really dry: the humidity level in an airplane cabin can vary between 5% to 20%, which is well below the levels (30% to 40%) that most human beings are comfortable with. These low humidity levels happen because the airplane is pumping some air into the cabin from the outside—and at 39,000 feet, that air simply doesn’t have a lot of moisture in it.
You can and should be hydrating on the plane — plain water is your best bet, either from your own water bottle or the beverage cart. But plain water doesn’t include electrolytes and other valuable vitamins and minerals, and if you’re sleeping for the bulk of the flight, that’s a lot of time spent just drying out.
This dehydration can result in [headaches, fatigue, and brain fog](https://health.clevelandclinic.org/dehydration-exhaustion-and-gas-what-flying-on-an-airplane-does-to-your-body#:~:text=It dehydrates you&text=Airplane cabins have very low,and skin to feel dry.). Most people’s bodies need from 2.7 to 3.7 liters of water per day for optimal function, and that number only increases when the humidity level falls.
Instead of chugging water at baggage claim, an IV bag can deliver just what your body needs: fluids, electrolytes, and B vitamins that are essential for cellular function.
Your Solution: Dehydration IV Therapy Drip
3. Beat Travel Sickness
The Problem: Not-so-fun fact: the dry, pressurized air on airplanes also makes it easier for you to catch a cold (and the flu, and other illnesses). This is in part due to the effect of dehydration on your immune system, but this air also contains less oxygen, which has a negative effect on your immune system.
You’re also tightly packed into seats around other travelers, who may or may not be coughing and sneezing up a storm. While airplane HVAC systems are extremely good at filtering out germs, that’s not much help if you’re seated next to someone sick: you have an 80% chance of catching whatever your neighbor has. Tray tables and other surfaces, too, are notoriously germ-riddled.
When you combine the dry air, the stress of air travel, and pathogens swirling around you, it’s easy to see why 26% of international travelers come down with a respiratory illness either during or after their trip.
This sounds like bad news, but you’re not guaranteed to lose vacation days to a travel bug if you take the right precautions. An immune-boosting mobile IV can deliver the mix of bug-busting ingredients your body needs to keep you healthy and energized, like Vitamin C and zinc.
And for those who suffer from air sickness, IV therapy can deliver zofran fast, either as a preventative or as a post-flight pick-me-up.
Your Solution: Immunity IV Therapy Drip, Nausea Rescue IV Therapy Drip
4. Replenish Nutrients Lost During Travel
The Problem: We’ve all been there: You’re waiting at your gate and your flight’s been delayed. Your stomach is growling, and you didn’t have time to pack a healthy snack. The only food options in your terminal are fast food. If you’re lucky, you can just grab a salad. If not, you’re stuck with a sub-optimal source of calories.
If you’re having a meal on the plane, be aware that airplane food has much higher levels of sodium and possibly sugar. This is because our taste buds are affected by altitude, and so the recipes have to be adjusted to maintain the expected amount of flavor. This increased sodium can contribute to dehydration.
So, during a long day of travel, odds are you’ve had to put some stuff in your body that you normally wouldn’t: salty, greasy, sugary food that, in a less oxygenated and dry environment, your body doesn’t handle as well as it might on land. The pressurized cabin can wreak havoc on your digestive system, too, causing you to feel bloated or otherwise uncomfortable. In this case, you might want to consider a big dose of vitamins like Vitamin C, B-Complex, and antioxidants like glutathione.
Your Solution: Mega Myers IV Therapy Drip
5. Boost Energy & Overcome Travel Fatigue
The Problem: Traveling is exhausting. You’re stressed and dehydrated, you probably haven’t slept well (or at all), and at best you’ve had some mediocre food. You might be suffering from jet lag. Oxygen levels in your body while flying can be 6% to 25% lower than normal, which can lead to brain fog and more serious health concerns.
Even if it’s “just” travel fatigue that’s affecting you, you don’t want to be stumbling around your destination in a haze or spending your whole first day of vacation passed out in your hotel. Or, if you’re on your way back home, you probably don’t have the luxury of immediately passing out in bed to catch up on sleep. Maybe you have to go straight to work, or you have a pile of household chores to get to, like laundry or grocery shopping. You might even feel a little depressed that your vacation is ending.
Whether you want to immediately explore your destination or you’re trying to avoid the post-vacation funk at work, you could probably use an energy boost. Something with carnitine in it, perhaps—a compound that helps your cells’ engines get going.
Your Solution: Energy Booster IV Therapy Drip
Your PTO is precious. Don’t waste a second of it napping, dealing with brain fog or fatigue, or being sick: Schedule a Mobile IV Drip appointed to get your body back on track.
