Human beings aren’t built to cross time zones. After an international flight, it takes days for the body to overcome the fatigue and nausea of jet lag, the biological price of doing business in the modern world.

That’s because every organ keeps time with its own separate clock. Though the brain tries to synchronize all of these clocks on a daily basis, some are more stubborn about resetting than others when adjusting to a new time zone and sleep schedule — according to a new study of sleep-deprived mice, which have internal clocks similar to ours.

“Jet lag is a big mess of different clocks,” said Gregor Eichele of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen, Germany.

A transcontinental traveler’s brain may adjust to being in Paris the day after his flight touches down. But his pancreas may continue to tick away on new York time, while his kidneys count the seconds somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean.

Genetic Clockwork

To study these clocks and develop a way to treat jet lag, Eichele woke up a group of laboratory mice six hours earlier than usual — simulating an eastward flight from Chicago to London with the flip of a light switch. he then measured changes in their gene activity as their bodies adjusted over the following 8-9 days.

Genes are the gears that run our internal clocks. all of our organs possess the same ten or so “clock” genes, which govern the production of molecules that keep time in a regular rhythm. But though the liver, the skin, and the brain share the same genetic clockwork, they each run on their own clock independent of the others.

In sleep-deprived mice, some of these molecular clocks adapted more quickly than others. Those in the pancreas — which regulates the body’s production of energy — resisted the change for days longer than those in kidneys, for example.

When the molecular clocks of different organs are significantly out of synch, bodily functions that require chemical communication can be disrupted. Eichle said that could explain the diverse symptoms of jet lag, which range from insomnia and depression to gastrointestinal problems. Studies have shown that the brains of aircraft crew who experience chronic jet lag tend to shrink and make more stress hormones, and the menstrual cycles of female flight attendants are disrupted by regular international flights.

“We know that chronic jet lag causes stress and impacts our health,” said Kei Cho, a neuroscientist the University of Bristol in the U.K., who discovered these effects. “This new research addresses one of the biggest questions in biology — how the genes are changed by disturbances to the sleep and wake cycle.”

It was my son’s sinus infection that I discovered the true merits of complementary medicine which led me to discover the many complementary medicines which are available and one of them is the homeopathic cure – a safe and gentle sinus home remedy to cure your sinus infection.

Homeopathic cure was evolved by German physician, Dr Samuel Hahnemann, in the late 18th century. He was appalled by the medical practices at that time and he initiated to develop a method of healing which would be safe, gentle and effective – the homeopathic cure.

Homeopathic cure is on the basis that we human beings have a capacity to heal ourselves and that the symptoms of an allergy, that of sinus infection, reflect the patient’s struggle to combat his allergy – thus the main symptoms of a sinus infection is that of persistent coughing, lingering cold, nasal congestion and others. Dr. Hahnemann went on to discover that what substance would cause in the way of symptoms, it could also cure and this is the main principle of homeopathic cure – “like cures like”.

Dr. Hahnemann’s classic example was when he took cinchona bark, he became ill and his symptoms mimicked that of malaria. This means that the bark of the cinchona tree which can cure malaria when prescribed to a person inflicted with malaria can actually produced malaria symptoms when given to a healthy person. He continued to experiment and he eventually established the fundamental principles of the science and art of homeopathic cure – “let likes be treated by likes” and he treated the sick based on this principle.

Homeopathic cure believes that all living beings possess a dynamic life force called the vital force and when this force is weakened by a sinus infection, our defence system will express these imbalances in the form of symptoms as described above.

Homeopathic cure heals this sinus infection by stimulating and energising this vital force to combat the sinus infection and leading to restoring the mind, emotions and body back to health and is a very holistic cure.

Explore homeopathic cure as one of your sinus home remedy for its benefits and research as described above and you can also read further on how a combination of three biochemic cellular-supporting tissue salts and how tissue salts can help you restore and correct your imbalances which may be causing your sinus infection. This homeopathic cure can temporarily :

- Opens the airways to promote normal breathing – Relieves tightening of the chest – Supports lungs and bronchiole functioning – Promotes respiratory tract and immune system health – Maintains routine balance of cell salts in the body