Travelling? ? Take your Viagra!

[Gambitt]

I'm not sure if this belongs here, or in "Weird News" but here goes:

Viagra Could Help Combat Jet Lag: Study
Wednesday May 23, 2007
It's pretty widely accepted that Viagra works very well for one thing, though according to researchers who gave the popular male impotence drug to a group of hamsters, it may also be very useful for another. The group of researchers from Argentina now claim Viagra has enormous potential for treating jet lag and as part of their study they manipulated the schedule of turning lights on and off to induce similar effects in the lab rodents.

The results: adult male hamsters given Viagra, also called sildenafil, recovered from the lag up to 50 percent faster than the hamsters that weren't given it. Eventually the scientists stopped giving the hamsters the highest dose they'd been using after the emergence of a certain side effect, but they maintain the value of their findings. The scientists insist Viagra's useful to help people cope with jet lag or shift work so long as the dose used is lower than the one needed for treatment of, well, you know.

Viagra combats an enzyme that lowers levels of a naturally occurring compound which plays a role in the regulation of the circadian cycle, the body's internal clock. The drug's marketed by Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker.