Originally Posted by
new2japan
Forgetting the flight does nothing for jet lag. Anaesthesia also wouldn't change the fact that you had changed time zones. Your circadian rhythm involves more than just sleep.
Actually, research out of the University of Aukland on anesthetized honey bees shows that general anesthesia causes jet lag like symptoms because the circadian rhythm is suspended. Bees have a keen sense of time.
So you could have a general anesthetic of the right duration and have no jet lag. Problem might be in timing. If you get anesthetized at 1am for the SFO/TPE flight you'll need to be awoken at 1am TPE time in order to have no jet lag. This would be a really long anesthetic given that flight usually lands at 5-6am.
Hmmm. Maybe you could be awoken 5 hours before the flight lands and go to sleep "naturally" for the remainder of the flight.
BTW, I'm an anesthesiologist and a beekeeper.