Did the 49ers just show us how to beat jet lag?
THE SO WHAT
NFL teams experimenting with protocols to blunt jet lag highlight how travel fatigue is now treated as an optimization problem, not an inevitability. If your org runs heavy travel, steal from sports science—standardize sleep, light, and schedule interventions instead of leaving it to individual hacks.
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