The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
There's a study published last year that's particularly relevant here that I want to share, not done by my laboratory, that showed that 20 minutes of deep rest, this is not deep sleep, but essentially doing something very hard and very intense and then taking 20 minutes immediately afterwards to deliberately turn off the deliberate focused thinking and engagement actually accelerated neuroplasticity.
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And then of course getting some non sleep deep rest or just deliberate disengagement, such as walking or running, or just sitting, eyes closed or eyes open you kind of mindlessly it might seem in a chair, just letting your thoughts move around after a learning about will accelerate the rate of plasticity that's been shown in quality peer reviewed studies.
There's a study published last year that's particularly relevant here that I want to share. That showed that 20 minutes of deep rest, this is not deep sleep, but essentially doing something very hard and very intense and then taking 20 minutes afterward, immediately afterwards, to deliberately turn off the deliberate, focused thinking and engagement actually accelerated neuroplasticity.