“A small dose of the impotence drug Viagra helped hamsters recover more quickly from ‘jet lag,’ according to a study published this week in the Early Edition of PNAS.”
Okay, in a blog that is supposedly about growing older, Viagra is a perfectly good topic.
But what I really want to know is how did the researchers induce jet lag in the hamsters? Did they build them little hamster-sized airplanes and fly them around for 18 hours and then take them on a “death march” after they landed?
Did they make them sit for hours in tiny airport lounges in chairs that were more suited for – say white mice and not hamsters? How about making them stand in line at little immigration and customs counters while they chatted at length with them about where they had been, insisting that they must have Polish sausage in their little suitcases?
And is there any more leg room in hamster-sized airplanes? After all, they have four legs, not just two. Did they have to fight with the hamster in front of them about putting the seat back? And did hamster children kick their seatbacks from
And what about food? What would be the airline equivalent of Hamster pellets?
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