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hi so if you've ever had jet lag you'll know that it is a really horrible experience that leaves you feeling groggy and just awful so I'm Australian I live in the US and that means that I go back and forth between the two countries early life I've tried pretty much everything to get over jetlag and the conventional wisdom says that you should do things like avoid nothing stay hydrated and also expose yourself to light so you can adjust your body clock more quickly and there are a bunch of different light therapy solutions on the market right now including crazy headsets like this one from air feel like I'm something out of Star Trek like Geordi LaForge or something but there is a new solution from a company called Loomis tech and it's actually integrated into a sleep mask so it's totally unobtrusive and it works while you sleep so it's based on research from Stanford and I'm here now at Stanford va sleep labs to talk to the founder and CEO of Loomis tech find out about the technology and then I'm gonna road test it on my next long-haul flights tell me all about this I notice it doesn't look like your average sleep mask yeah so for us having the sleep mask be comfortable was paramount but the real technology is in the hardware so we use this Hardware module to emit short light pulses during the night that tells your body the Sun is up when it's not and in that way we can actually hack your biological system so how much can you hack that biological system like how many times earnings can I effectively compensate for in one session on average we can adjust people three to four hours in a single night well if you're traveling from San Francisco to New York you can arrive with no jet lag no way no jet lag at all oh my gosh so how much will this compensate for for like my 14-hour flight yes so if you are heading to Sydney from San Francisco we would expect you to use the mask one night before your flight to prepare your body for the upcoming adjustment and then one night at your destination and be ready to go after that okay and so when I wear the night before my flight obviously that light pattern is gonna stop playing when I'm asleep now am I gonna wake up the next day and feel kind of like I've been reset to Australia time you might solely have definitely had users who feel that they are more on Australia time like they'll be hungry or at a different time you'll certainly feel tired at a different time and so that's what we would expect partial adjustment the first night and then completing that once you arrive it's the night before my flight between San Francisco and Sydney my bags are packed and I've put in my flight details in the app so all that's left to do is get into bed and let the mask do its work good night good morning I just got into work after my first night using the light therapy mask and I have to say I feel surprisingly refreshed which never happens very unlike me so this was a nice change when I was going to sleep I noticed there were a couple of flashes going off a little weird at first but I got used to it and the most important thing is they did not wake me up when I was falling asleep and when I was asleep which was great so now all I have to do is finish up here at work and head to the airport as in front of me we've this seat back like immediately off to takeoff and I'm in the middle seat so about three hours into the flight somewhere over the Pacific between San Francisco and Sydney yes I am in the toilet I am so sorry I do not normally selfie blog whatever from the toilet anyway I am gonna start using the sleep loss tonight however it is not going to be online therapy worried it's actually just gonna be used as animal black mask and I was told that that I actually don't need to do the light therapy on the plane itself just walk out the lights I get some sleep as always it could be super distracting on the plane so we landed about 6 a.m. this morning I got a couple hours of sleep on the plane maybe five or six and didn't feel too bad at all when I woke up and I actually got home and I went for a run which is unheard of guys absolutely unheard of like made going for a run the day after a long-haul flight doesn't happen so I have one more night left of light therapy that is tonight but I feel pretty good right now like very little evidence of jet lag so I'm super excited after two nights of light therapy I feel fully adjusted to Sydney time but what if it's just a placebo effect to make sure I'm using it again on the return journey two weeks later I am super tired right now you know not wear the mask again on the plane I'm just going to sleep normally and then use it one more time when I get back to SF and cross my fingers and prove that jet lag is a thing of the past but right now hi it I mean I feel like as soon as I get on that plane I'm gonna fall asleep just kidding I don't actually feel all that bad so I'm back in San Francisco this is the second day after I landed and the question that you want answered is how do I feel like did it actually cure my jetlag well I definitely feel like I'm recovering a lot faster having used light therapy than if I didn't and that's kind of the whole point so here's what I really liked about using the sleep mask I loved that you could just basically enter all your travel dates in the app and then set and forget like you didn't have to know anything at all about light therapy plus if you don't feel like you've adjusted fast enough you have the option to add another night of my therapy inside the app - what I didn't like is I was concerned that when I was asleep like I had no way of knowing if the light therapy actually worked apart from the app saying yes you know your light therapy is complete so Lumos tech is going to be coming out around the end of 2018 fingers crossed because I really do not want to do long haul travel without this ever again like it's maybe experience so much more bearable and so much more pleasant so that's my jetlag test I hope you enjoyed it if you like this video please give it a thumbs up leave me a comment and let me know what you want me to try out an experience next find me on Twitter find me in the comments thanks for watching I love my now Aaron my hair