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A Sleep Scientist's Guide to Better Sleep Habits with Dr. Allison Brager

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How to Get the Perfect NAP for Sleep Obesity

94% of the folks on the platform, if I go back to it, 96.8 of our members took a NAP this year and the average NAP is an hour and 41 minutes. Anyone who's able to NAP for longer than an hour a day, that to me is a key indicator of sleep debt. The only people who should be napping longer than anhour are shift workers and particularly people like firefighters and first responderswho do 24 hour or 48 hour continuous shifts. It's mostly night or light non-rem sleep but a little bit of REM too.

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