Barry Baines
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first heard Feb 2024
last heard 3 Apr
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And it really, even though we all think we might be great travel warriors, when it comes down to it is every time zone that you travel through has an impact on your sleep pattern and our circadian rhythms or bio rhythms, as it were. And it could make you feel like you're dragging
for days and that's and that's true um and so sort of having a handle on how many time zones you're going to go through and how you might be able to mitigate um you know that whole thing because you go to a place and you're going to be staying for a week you don't want to be spending you know five of those seven days like with your eyes half closed right as you as you go through and then the other piece is again i'm just kind of you know putting these out there high level
hopefully high level enough, and then we can pick up the conversation threads on those. Traveling is stressful. It's very stressful because a lot of what we're doing is out of our control, particularly transportation, airports. We know how that's changed. How many things do I have to take off to get through security? Make sure that I have my ID correctly.
Overseas, in addition to immunizations, it's your passport, things like that. And there are lots of things you could just Google for travel tips that oftentimes give you a list of things that are very, very important, which can come in handy. I know I went overseas. One of the tips was if you're traveling overseas and you have a passport, make a copy of your passport.
Oh, and by the way, you know, like the Xerox copy. And by the way, don't keep it with your passport. And I was I was overseas. This is about 13, 14 years ago on a vacation to Portugal. And a couple of days before we left, I lost my passport. And I had to go to the embassy. But fortunately, I did make a copy of my I had a copy and I wasn't keeping it with my passport.
And so it, it, it relieved, it was very stressful losing your passport, but it was a relief that I had everything that was needed so that I could get a temporary one.
Yeah. And I'll be honest, I don't exactly know what the current, you know, what's the most up-to-date, you know, advice on that kind of thing from a common sense perspective. Because you're going to be traveling somewhere, a lot of time zones away, but you're going to be coming back
I think I tend to just weigh in, again, just as a health chatter, you know, co-host and advisor here, is just keeping to that regular schedule is the best thing. That being said, though, you know, when your days are all sudden or nights and vice versa, that can be difficult. So if you have complicated medication management schedules and stuff,
I think it's certainly worth having a conversation with your provider.
Or physician to sort of map out a plan. But again, the thing is, one way to relieve the stress is to have a plan of what you're going to do. And typically, if you're a little off for a few days on a medication, most of the time that's not going to be You know, the end, you know, the end of the world overall.
And it's still but again, to relieve that stress of, oh, my gosh, what am I going to do now? It's I'm supposed to take this morning. Now it's night. Having a plan for that is one way to relieve that stress. Yeah.
Yeah, and the thing is, there's the idea of having a travel checklist. There's a book that was written called The Checklist Manifesto. Okay. And actually, it was written by Atul Gawande, who wrote Being Mortal. I think many of you, you know, hopefully our listeners have heard that's a fantastic book to be reading as well. But the point is having a checklist is just to help you not forget anything.
And you know, the reality is, The airline pilots that fly our planes, they know how to fly the planes, but before they could do anything, they have to go through this exhaustive checklist. Surgeons in operating rooms have to go through a checklist before they operate so that, oh, it was the left leg, not the right leg. It's just one of those things, just so that you don't forget,
and uh having that checklist um makes it very very easy and you can always add to it usually you can't take things off of those checklists because our lives tend to get more complicated over over time uh but having that checklist is just a great way to know like i say that you pack your you know you also want to pack your toothbrush and toothpaste yeah exactly as well as uh is everything.
I went on a trip.
Yeah, I think the biggest pro for this is that being in a new setting really helps you to see things in a different way. And it's very stimulating for the brain from a creative perspective, you know, seeing new scenery. And, you know, certainly I'll talk about traveling domestically here. There are parts of our country and our state.
It's not like, you know, travel has to be always going on a plane. But very often, in particular, when we connect with nature, And we have lots of natural, stupendous, awesome things, you know, in our parks and rivers and mountains and, you know, in this country. And it really is very stimulating to the brain and helps you think about, you know, things differently. It's very restorative.
So like, you know, if you're stressed out, sometimes that break helps. I think to build on Clarence's piece, it helps expand your worldview as you get out of your neighborhood. And that to me always ranks at the top of the list because oftentimes when you travel, you have new experiences, even experiences that are challenging, sort of being able to solve problems in a new setting
just expands your brain's ability. And so for me, that's always been the number one thing is how it really gets your brain going, which ultimately results in more energy to do things and more productivity in general.
No, because once you're in a different environment, okay, it changes things. And my experience has been when I travel to a new environment, you sort of need to compromise more
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