Health Benefits Of Napping

What's Napping

Napping is simply a light sleep during the day not exceeding an hour. A lot of people confuse Siesta with napping. If you sleep beyond an hour during the day, then that is called a Siesta. And also, a lot of people confuse Microsleep Period with napping. Microsleep period is a brief unintentional sleep i.e you have watching a movie, and you just slept off with actually planning it, but that's not the case with napping, napping is intentional. I hope you guys now know the difference(smiles). Although this amazing article is strictly about the benefits of napping. So without wasting any of your time, let's jump into the benefits of napping.

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Benefits Of Napping

The benefits of napping are numerous, but I would only give you guys a few, and I hope it would propel you guys to start saving up time every day for napping and they include;

It Helps Reduce The Risk Of Heart Diseases

Naps helps to reduce the risk of heart diseases or problems, it works as good as Statin Drugs Studies have shown that people who napped 30 minutes every day or 3 days within a week have 37% less chances of getting heart diseases or problems.

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It Improves Our Mental Performances

Napping every helps to improve our mental performances. Studies reveal that napping at least 30 minutes or even a power nap of about 10 minutes helps greatly in improving our mental performances in the sense of productivity, better attention, and creativity and that's why surgeons and pilot takes nap before performing their jobs.

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It Helps Us In Remembering More

Napping helps our brain in remembering things we have learned. Studies have shown that nap helps in facilitating and consolidating learning and also in improving our abilities in remembering things. After a stressful classes of the day, it is advisable to take nap in order to help you remember the things you have just learned.

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