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The study, carried out in the G. D’Annunzio at the University Of Pescara, Italy, consisted of 133 passengers who took flights from seven to nine hours, they were provided 50 mg Pycnogenol oral three times a day, seven days, after two days before the flight.

Thirty-eight were treated with Pycnogenol and 30 patients were classified with common complaints of Jetlag: dehydration and the loss of appetite, headaches, irritation of the breasts, fatigue, disorientation, nausea, stomach pain, insomnia or irregularities in the sleep patterns, irritability, and irrational behavior; the alternation mental performance, changes in the general welfare.

In the observations and were measured within 48 hours after the end of the flights, the results showed a score significantly lower (56 percent) to the group of Pycnogenol, which showed a significant reduction in all the signs and symptoms.

Moreover, the symptoms only lasted an average of 18.2 hours in the group of Pycnogenol, compared to 39.3 hours in the control group.

“This is the first study that describes the dissemination subliminal brain swelling after the long-distance flights, which was found reduced to less than half in the group of Pycnogenol”. Read the rest of this entry »