In addition to making you groggy and dazed, jet lag may make you stupid. A study presented November 15 at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting finds that hamsters suffering extreme, chronic jet lag had about half the normal rate of new neuron birth in a part of the brain. What’s more, these animals showed deficits in learning and memory.
I didn’t even know the little buggers flew that often. I wonder if they get frequent flyer miles.
Hamsters. Little buggers. Eeww