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The Best Minerals for Jet Lag, Sleep, and Travel
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Can minerals help with jet lag?
Yes, minerals are one of the best things you can take to reduce jet lag.
You get jet-lagged when you fly across multiple time zones. Your internal clock can’t keep up with the change, which disrupts your sleep and leaves you exhausted.
Several minerals help your brain adapt to jet lag faster. Minerals can also ensure you sleep well on your first night of travel, reducing jet lag’s effects.
Don’t let jet lag ruin your trips. Here’s why jet lag happens, what it’s doing to your body, and how a good mineral formula can help you get rid of jet lag.
What Is Jet Lag (and Why Does it Happen)?
Jet lag is a temporary sleeping disorder. It happens when you fly across multiple time zones in a single day.
Your brain has a 24-hour internal clock called your circadian rhythm. It’s controlled by a tiny area in the middle of your brain called your suprachiasmic nucleus (SCN). Your SCN is only the size of a grain of rice, but its job is very important. It acts as a timekeeper, measuring changing light in your environment so you have a sense of time passing throughout the day.
Your internal clock is amazing at keeping time—but it didn’t evolve to deal with the speed of air travel. When you fly a great distance in a short period, your SCN stays synced to your original time zone.
The result is jet lag: a mismatch between your internal clock and your local day-night cycle. [*]
Signs You Have Jet Lag
Jet lag causes a variety of negative effects. Below is a comprehensive list of signs you have jet lag. Note that you may not experience all of these during a single jet lag episode.
Signs of Jet Lag
Tiredness or exhaustion
Difficulty sleeping at bedtime
Difficulty waking up in the morning
Daytime sleepiness
Brain fog
Trouble concentrating
Memory problems
Indigestion
Nausea
Anxiety
Changes in appetite
Jet lag usually lasts for 2-7 days, depending on how far you travel and how out of sync you are with your usual time zone.
How Minerals Help with Jet Lag
Minerals help ease jet lag in two ways: hydration and sleep regulation.
Air travel is more dehydrating than most people realize. [*] Airplane cabin air is only about 5-10% humidity, making it drier than the air of the Sahara Desert.
Airplane cabins also maintain low air pressure, which causes water to evaporate from your skin and breath much faster. When you’re flying, you lose about a cup of water per hour.
The result is that you get dehydrated about twice as fast when you fly. You lose both water and electrolytes, which can compound the effects of jet lag. Dehydration leaves you feeling fatigued, but it also interferes with sleep, keeping you stuck for longer in a cycle of jet lag.
Electrolytes are special minerals that control your body’s fluid balance. If you load up on electrolytes before your flight, then replenish them as soon as you land, you can help prevent travel-related dehydration. Research shows that getting more electrolytes on travel days can also reduce jet lag. [*]
Minerals also help your body adjust to your new time zone. The two most important ones are magnesium and zinc.
Magnesium is a powerful regulator of melatonin, your body’s main sleep hormone. [*] Normally you release melatonin in the evening. It makes you feel sleepy and helps you stay asleep until morning. During jet lag, however, you release melatonin at the wrong time, leaving you exhausted during the day and wide awake at night.
Increasing your magnesium intake helps your body produce and regulate melatonin better, which is ideal when you’re switching time zones. [*] Sure enough, a 2025 study found that getting more magnesium stabilizes your circadian rhythm, making you less susceptible to disturbances like jet lag. [*]
Zinc is another helpful mineral for jet lag. Research shows that taking zinc leads to deeper, more restorative sleep. [*] Replenishing zinc when you land can help you feel like you’re getting a full night’s rest, even if your sleep is disrupted by jet lag. You’ll wake up clear and energized, and you’ll be able to adjust faster.
Combining electrolytes, magnesium, and zinc can help you avoid the worst parts of jet lag—and bounce back from it faster.
The Best Minerals for Jet Lag and Travel
The next time you travel, try bringing BEAM Minerals along for the trip.
Our Travel Pack contains everything you need to fight jet lag and feel your best, all in a convenient, travel-friendly package.
All you do is take a half-ounce shot each of Electrolyze™ and Micro-BOOST™, our two liquid mineral formulas, both before and after your flight. Together, they deliver the full spectrum of minerals the human body needs, in an optimal ratio, with rapid absorption.
The Travel Pack also includes Insta-Lytes™, a travel-size misting spray that delivers an instant mineral boost. Whenever you feel tired or need a little extra energy, just spray Insta-Lytes™ on your face. It absorbs immediately and you’ll feel the difference within 30-45 seconds.
Don’t let jet lag get in the way of your travel plans. Use BEAM Minerals to help your body adjust—so you stay sharp and energized, no matter where you go.
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FAQs
Can I take BEAM Minerals with my other supplements?
Yes, in fact, BEAM Minerals will enhance the bioavailability of all your other supplements.
What is the difference between Micro-BOOST™ and Electrolyze™?
Electrolyze™ is primarily composed of Fulvic Mineral Complexes . Fulvic complexes are small molecules that provide inter-cellular transport for nutritional elements into the cells and carry bio-waste out of the cells. Fulvic complexes are flavonoids , which provide many benefits in the body.
Micro-BOOST™ is primarily composed of the Humic Mineral Complexes . Humic complexes are large molecules that are extra-cellular, meaning they do not enter the cells but stay outside the cells. They are highly-charged molecules that attract, through their electrical charge, bio-waste, free radicals and heavy metals. They ultimately carry bio-waste out of the body. Thus, we call them “Nature’s Janitor”.
How many milligrams (mg) of an electrolyte (Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium, Calcium, etc.) is there in BEAM Minerals?
The quantities of each element in BEAM Minerals products are measured in “parts per million” (ppm), rather than the “milligrams” (mg). Here is the information which usually helps to understand the difference:
Milligrams (mg) vs parts per million (ppm)
In comparing our products to other supplements, people want to know how much of an electrolyte is in our products (like potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium). Usually they are looking for an amount in milligrams (mg).
We have a hard time answering that question, because the electrolytes (and other elements) in BEAM Minerals products are measured in parts per million (ppm). So how can consumers compare?
The answer is a little complex, but here’s the high points.
The electrolytes in BEAM Minerals products are provided in “trace” amounts that are completely dissolved and thus 100% bio-available, immediately introduced into your circulation when you consumed them and will produce and active effect.
When you take a 320mg pill of magnesium, your body is only able utilize about 12-20% of it as it takes some time because your body has to digest it first. Whatever is not dissolved gets processed out of your body.
When you take a capful of liquid Electrolyze™ and/or Micro-BOOST™, you receive approximately 5.22 ppm of magnesium in which 100% of the magnesium is immediately available to your body. In addition, an important to know is that the magnesium in BEAM Minerals products stay in your system much longer building up healthy levels as you continue to take it daily.
