Even if you have not traveled by plane, it is almost certain that you are conversant with the term jet lag. Jet lag is a fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body’s normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel and lots of people are always present who can narrate the experience.

But now it seems that an answer to this perpetual annoyance has been found. It has come to the knowledge that eminent scientists from University of Manchester have discovered special cells in the body that appear to regulate a person’s body clock. As per scientists, this finding would provide vital clues to help combat jet lag.

It is to be noted, once it was thought that these cells remain inactive during the day. But the ground breaking study has brought the reverse to the fore.

As indicated by Professor Hugh Piggins, lead researcher and an expert in neuroscience at the university, the research will allow a new approach to help tune our daily clock.

Researchers accept as true that the brain regulates body clock by means of firing more cells during daylight and very few during the night. “The traditional model said the clock and the brain communicated to the rest of the brain via the number of electrical impulses that the brain cells were producing,” The BBC News quoted Piggins saying. “These impulses would travel around the brain, telling it what time of day it is.” “What we’ve found is in fact that there are at least two types of cells in this part of the brain,” he added.

“There’s a lot of interest in the pharmaceutical industry, obviously, to try to develop chemical treatments to reset your daily clock to help counteract things like jetlag,” said Piggins. “Or, perhaps more importantly, different kind of sleep disorders for which dysfunctions in this clock are often involved,” he added.