Exit from the airport. It is 10 in the morning and the weather is beautiful, the holidays can begin. The only problem is fatigue. meanwhile, it’s dark in France and our biological clock is completely out of whack. The first moments of our little paradise will be spent within four walls, taking a siesta. Launched in June 2021, the Gowwiz app aims to help travelers avoid the inconvenience of jet lag. Created in collaboration with CHU and the Center Sommelier de Brest, the French start-up offers users a sleep and light exposure program based on their journey to re-synchronize the body faster at arrival.
An algorithm that suggests a personalized plan based on sleep habits, day of departure, flight number or even expected jet lag. It then shows the actions to follow: exposure to light or not, sleeping, bedtime, getting up. The startup plans to add food and body temperature management (bath, shower).
Accompany the medication at a fixed time
The key to resynchronizing the body, light acts on the secretion of melatonin, the sleep hormone, and allows it to find an alternating sleep/wake cycle of about 24 hours (called the circadian cycle) in phase with the “arrival point”. Govviz worked with Dr. Kadet, a neurologist at the Brest Sleep Center. The app has just launched a new feature to help users take medications at fixed times. After several hours of layover in three time zones before departure, followed by a second flight that crosses several additional time zones, managing tablet intake can become a nightmare.
The Gowwiz app is available for free on the App Store and Google Play Store, but will be chargeable starting July 20 at a cost of €9.90. Promotions should be used regularly to bring the price down to just a few euros, says app founder Annick Le Bihan. Figaro.
Source: Le Figaro
