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Dr. Matt Walker: The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep
Huberman Lab
The Benefits of Naps
Naps of as little as 17 minutes can have some quite potent effects on learning. Nassau pioneered this back in the 19 nineties, and during the missions, they were experimenting with naps for their astronauds. And what they found was that naps of little as 26 minutes improved a a mission performance by 34 % and improved daytime alertness by 50%. So it's long been known that naps can have a benefit. But there is a dark side to naps: The longer we're awake, the more of that sleep pressure, denosene, that we build up. With about eight hours of good quality sleep, seven to nine hours for the average adult, we
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