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#133 Andrew Huberman: The Science of Small Changes

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Short Naps Accelerate Nero Plasticity and Learning

Naps should be shorter than 90 minutes, Di says. Napping accelerates nero plasticity and learning if taken within four to six hours after a very intense learning bout. If people are having an after crash, one thing they can do is delay their morning cafine for 90 to a hundred an 20 minutes after waking. The longer you're awake, the more there's the build up of a molecule in the brain and body called a denisene. That's sort of a sleepiness molecule, if you will.

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