Well, we all know that feeling.
You've been up for about 8 hours, maybe more.
You're starting to feel that
lull as far as energy levels
and you're thinking about a nap.
It might be the exact pick me up you need,
but how good are naps for you anyway?
Doctor Cheryl Ziegler is here
with us to talk about Naps.
They always sound great,
but you got to be able to
get in and get out of a nap.
That's the hard part for many. Yes,
that's true. So power napping is
when you sleep anywhere between
20 to 30 minutes at a time.
And I have been doing this for a long time.
It is doable, so you know.
You lay there and truly I set my alarm.
And if you do it for no more than 30 minutes,
you don't go into a deep enough sleep
so that you don't wake up groggy.
So you truly wake up like in a light.
It's like a very deep rest
or a light sleep. So again,
clears your head,
is really kind of the thing,
and gives your body some time to rejuvenate.
Yeah, it helps with,
you know, your cognition.
So you're thinking skills.
It helps with being more patient,
it helps with irritability,
it helps with your mood.
It helps with a lot of things.
And I know people think,
ohh, I couldn't do that.
But truly, with some practice you can,
and really, it's the creativity part.
So if you wake up at 6:00 AM at
about 2:00 to 3:00 in the afternoon,
most adults start to feel that low,
and that's when they grab the coffee.
Right, so this is the alternative
to grabbing the coffee.
This is more restorative.
I've always been a big fan
of the siesta some cultures.
This is actually part of the culture.
Yeah, I always thought this
is a great idea for me.
The only time I really get to nap now
is when Kathy's doing the weather.
But is it, does it work for everyone?
Is it something that you know that
one-size-fits-all as far as naps?
You know, I think that the data says
particularly for adults, it really does.
It also works interestingly for both groups
of people, people who are sleep deprived.
And even, you know, 7 to 9 hours is
the recommended amount of sleep.
At least 1/3 of Americans do
not get 7 to 9 hours of sleep.
So it's also a way to rejuvenate
yourself when you're sleep deprived.
So just the assumption that most people.
Are sleep deprived.
It's really beneficial.
It's also beneficial.
There's amazing stats around your cardio,
like your cardiac health.
There's stats around living
longer if you have diabetes,
if you have high blood pressure.
So a lot of also physical health
data to say that it helps you
live longer because overall it's
really restorative when we live
in such a high stress world.
You
know, I've always said, you know,
you're in preschool and kindergarten
and they tell you it's nap time
and you're like no and then the
rest of your life you crave it.
But. The rest of your life.
But but I do think that if
you can carve the time out,
that's what I think.
A lot of people struggle and if you
were like to nap too late in the day, it
probably messes with your sleep side.
Yes, that's the one thing that will
sleep specialist will say is you
have to see what works for you.
Maybe a four o'clock nap
is too late and you say,
well now I'm not going to sleep as much,
so you really want to figure that out.
It really is about 8 hours after you wake up.
So each one of us wake
up at a different time.
OK, so do the 8 hour thing and don't
go past 30 minutes and even if you.
The first time you try it,
if you lay there and you didn't feel like
you fell into asleep, that's OK get up.
You still went into a deep rest.
Yeah, I always think it's beneficial to,
you know
the the healthiest things
that you can really do,
you can affect your own life with
involve exercise, diet and sleep
and exercise and diet are hard,
so I'll just do the sleep one.
I'll choose door #3. Yeah,
sign us up. Plenty of
people are doing a great
job exercising and dieting.
I think they've got it covered.
I'll do the sleep
part. Yeah, me too. I I'm gonna try it.
I'll try at least on a weekend.
A sleep mask on too.
Like an eye pillow almost. Ohh.
So you tune out the ever all noise.
So you budget for this in your day?
Not everyone has that time. You know,
it's it's in the middle of their day.
When you say you hit about 8 hours,
that may not be doable for them.
I want to tell you that I
started when I was a mom.
When I was a young mom.
And it I did about 11:00 AM.
Eleven. One time I overslept,
picking up from preschool.
But, you know, I started really
then when I was exhausted.
And now I do it as rest,
as just being restorative
and more creative, honestly,
in the afternoon. And
now you have a new puppy.
So it's like being a new mom.
Oh yeah. OK. Fun
of napping. And not at 4:00 o'clock.
You're supposed to be watching her show,
right? Not during the weather either.
It's kind of insulting. Tom.
I know. I think Kathy is going
to be a little hot to me.
Speaking of Kathy, she's coming along
with the weather doctor. Ziegler,
it's always good to see you. Thanks.