Are Naps Good for You?
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Are Naps Good for You?
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#2Our bodies are pretty good at telling us what it needs. Drink when you're thirsty and nap when you're drowsy. The problem we find, which elicits articles like this, is that our 'work environment' is not conducive to adhoc relaxation.
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#3Our bodies are pretty good at telling us what it needs. Drink when you're thirsty and nap when you're drowsy. The problem we find, which elicits articles like this, is that our 'work environment' is not conducive to adhoc relaxation.
~75% of adults in the US are overweight. ~20% have a sleep disorder.
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#4Our bodies are pretty good at telling us what it needs. Drink when you're thirsty and nap when you're drowsy. The problem we find, which elicits articles like this, is that our 'work environment' is not conducive to adhoc relaxation.
On the whole, I agree with you, but sometimes there are actually issues and that's why we get sick, when the body response is out of wack or lacking. Sometimes it's less about being tired and more about something which causes you to be tired, like being stuck in an unwanted situation.
But yes, our work environment are full of dogmatic rules and preconceptions which are hard to break.
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#5Love me a quick 20-30 minute nap in the car at work. I start out with a big stress bundle in my chest and it’s all gone after. The article mentions this phenomenon as lowering blood pressure and heart rate
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#6yes or no?
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#7Our bodies are pretty good at telling us what it needs. Drink when you're thirsty and nap when you're drowsy. The problem we find, which elicits articles like this, is that our 'work environment' is not conducive to adhoc relaxation.
~75% of adults in the US are overweight. ~20% have a sleep disorder.
So are ~53% of adults in the EU. And there are more obese kids than before in the EU too: knowing that there's an insane statistic saying something like 93% of obese kids shall stay obese their entire life, that 53% in the EU is only ever gonna go up (unless there's serious food shortage due to a war or climate event).
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#8Our bodies are pretty good at telling us what it needs. Drink when you're thirsty and nap when you're drowsy. The problem we find, which elicits articles like this, is that our 'work environment' is not conducive to adhoc relaxation.
Counterexamples: body tells you to eat more when stressed or depressed.
A bit of stress is healthy for the body. Your body doesn’t really tell you to go to the gym.
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#9Google had "nap pods." I don't know if they still do. You could book them via the calendaring system.
It was like a big half-sphere that covered your upper body & head, but left your legs exposed. You were still sitting, not reclining. You could have headphones with white noise.
I tried them. Not very sleepy, for me.
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#10Our bodies are pretty good at telling us what it needs. Drink when you're thirsty and nap when you're drowsy. The problem we find, which elicits articles like this, is that our 'work environment' is not conducive to adhoc relaxation.
On the whole, I agree with you, but sometimes there are actually issues and that's why we get sick, when the body response is out of wack or lacking. Sometimes it's less about being tired and more about something which causes you to be tired, like being stuck in an unwanted situation. But yes, our work environment are full of dogmatic rules and preconceptions which are hard to break.
On a similar note, something I've observed is that the feeling of tiredness in the afternoon doesn't necessarily correlate with how much I've done in the hours prior.
Recently I started doing more things in the morning hours, with the hope that I'd be more effective at those tasks (especially the more mentally taxing ones) earlier in the day than when I had been doing them previously, which was typically in the afternoon or evening.
Intuitively, this would lead to better productivity in the earlier half of the day at the cost of reducing it in the latter half. Instead, my afternoon and evening energy levels remained unchanged or even improved a bit, meaning that I now get more done with no apparent cost. This is of course welcome but it was quite unexpected, and suggests that some amount of the "tired" feeling is more a result of conditioning than energy expenditure.