{"id":13779,"date":"2016-11-12T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessrx.com\/blog\/?p=13779"},"modified":"2013-11-12T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T19:00:21","slug":"study-viagra-can-treat-jetlag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/erectile-dysfunction\/viagra\/study-viagra-can-treat-jetlag\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Viagra Can Treat Jetlag"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Researcher inject hamsters with Viagra to treat jetlag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Jetlag isn’t easy to fight, but a new study out of Argentina shows Viagra might provide a cure.<\/p>\n

Study shows Viagra treats jetlag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diego Golombek and his colleagues at the National University of Quilmes in Buenos Aires, injected hamsters with Viagra and then switched the animal’s light\/dark schedule ahead by six hours, which is the equivalent of a flight from New York to Paris.<\/p>\n

Hamsters that had a dose of Viagra switched their wheel-running routines 50 percent faster than those that didn’t take Viagra.<\/p>\n

“If the drug does work in humans, it could be easier to use than melatonin, a hormone used to overcome jetlag that requires several doses to have a significant effect,” researchers stated.<\/p>\n

Golombek’s hamsters only needed a single dose of sildenafil to adjust to new time zones, according to the study published on Nature.com<\/a>. If Viagra can provide a solution to jetlag, it could decrease other health problems, experts say.<\/p>\n

“When you disrupt the internal clock, you disrupt the synchrony among every process in your body,” says Lance Kriegsfeld, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n

“When you’re jetlagged, all your different rhythms catch up at a different rate to the new time zone. They’re out of synch relative to one another.”<\/p>\n

Other jetlag cures<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Singapore company recently conducted a survey, asking travelers how they beat the symptoms of jetlag and Viagra made their list as well.<\/p>\n

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Viagra is not currently approved by the FDA to treat jetlag. However, it is approved to treat erectile dysfunction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>“Our survey has shown that people will often try various methods in order to beat jetlag — but they may not work for everyone,” said Singapore marketing manager Ira Noviani at travel search site Skyscanner, which conducted the poll of 1,000 travelers.<\/p>\n

The list includes light exercise while on the plane, sleeping pills and Viagra. The survey, which was featured on CNN<\/a>, shows about 45 percent of people that took Viagra to fight jetlag said it worked.<\/p>\n

Right now, Viagra is not approved by the FDA to treat jetlag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jetlag isn’t easy to fight, but a new study out of Argentina shows Viagra might provide a cure. Study shows Viagra treats jetlag Diego Golombek and his colleagues at the National University of Quilmes in Buenos Aires, injected hamsters with Viagra and then switched the animal’s light\/dark schedule ahead by six hours, which is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viagra"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t