You can't beat a good nap - and now it's proven to be good for your brain. 😴🧠
Dr Garfield says advice to nap is "something quite easy" to do in comparison to weight loss or exercise which are "difficult for a lot of people".
"Thus, regular napping could protect against neurodegeneration by compensating for deficient sleep," researcher Valentina Paz said. "Honestly, I would rather spend 30 minutes exercising than napping, I'll probably try and recommend that my mum does it."Napping might boost health, but the reverse is also true as your health can leave you so tired you need to nap more.They used a gigantic natural experiment based on the DNA - the genetic code - with which we are born. Previous studies have identified 97 snippets of our DNA that either make us more likely to be nappers or to power through the day.
The results, published in the journal Sleep Health, showed a 15 cubic centimetre difference - equivalent to 2.6 to 6.5 years of ageing. Total brain volumes were about 1,480 cubic centimetres in the study.
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