Perfect scientific protocols for jetlag are useless if they are not feasible due to real-life constraints.

At inShift, we prioritize the highest level of personalization and provide a concierge service for jetlag prevention and longevity supported by the iOS app, health devices, and a personal recovery advisor.

How It Works:

1. Initial Call to Learn About Your Lifestyle

We communicate with you or your executive assistant to learn about the following:

• Flights frequency, common time zones, and durations.
• Time blocks in your calendar: work patterns, commutes, critical meetings and events, personal time, and sleep and exercise preferences.
• Pre-existing health conditions that might prevent you from following recommendations (e.g., light hypersensitivity, retinal diseases).

2. Start Monitoring Your Sleep and Recovery

• Over the first 1-2 weeks, we monitor and analyze your sleep architecture to estimate your baseline.
• If available, we analyze sleep from your previous trips.
• Sleep monitoring requires an accurate and comfortable sleep-tracking device. We highly recommend the Oura ring for the index, middle, or ring fingers.
• If we spot any signs of sleep or circadian rhythm disorders, we help you find local health providers to conduct necessary tests. We might also send you an RNA test to analyze your body clock in a German lab.

3. Improving Sleep Environment

We share practical recommendations and tools on how to improve your bedroom and sleep-related habits, from a healthy light environment and air quality to psychological state and supplements.

4. Planning Upcoming Trips and Body Clock Adaptations

• Once you know your traveling needs, we work with you and/or your executive assistant to help you optimize the timing and the intensity of your flight schedule.
• Then, we generate various adjustment scenarios that gradually shift your sleep/wake hours to match your next destinations. We go beyond just melatonin and sunglasses and provide comprehensive science-backed recommendations on:
  • Light management
  • Productivity peaks
  • Sleeping (and napping)
  • Physical activities
  • Food & caffeine
  • Body temperature regulation
  • Melatonin intake
• Then you choose the scenario that works best for your personal constraints.

5. Getting Essential Health Devices

• To guarantee the ease of use and the effectiveness of our protocol, our users acquire not only an accurate sleep tracker but also essential tools to control their light environment at home or on the plane:

  • a very bright light source (light-emitting glasses or/and SAD panel)
  • a dim light (a book light or, ideally, Philips Hue Lights for your indoor spaces )
  • blue light-blocking glasses
  • sunglasses

  Our users are all over the globe. For speed, we prioritize delivering health devices from local providers instead of shipping from our European facilities.

6. Starting Adjustments for Your Next Flight

• We invite you to our iOS app.
• Every day, you receive tailored recommendations. They are as simple as getting or avoiding bright light at certain hours of the day, drinking coffee, and eating within the optimal time window. If you exercise, we help you find the timing that contributes to your time-shifting goals.
• By sticking to recommended activities, you naturally push your sleep/wake window to earlier or later hours.

7. You Arrive Adjusted from Day One