Andrew Huberman· PhD
consider not necessarily obviating the nap that may not be required just bring it back earlier take it after lunch see how things work out do the experiment and when you do the experiment make sure that you do what I would describe as the onof on experiment which is where you're napping as you normally do and you've noticed perhaps some problems with your sleep then do so that's sort of the the well it's sort of the on off on phase so then change your nap protocol and move it earlier so now you've Switched Off Your Standard protocol and you've moved on to something different so you're on your standard protocol and then you come off it and when you come off it meaning you go to an earlier nap and you say gosh things do seem to be better maybe he he had something there and it does seem to improve good but I don't trust that because maybe it's just a placebo effect that you you know hear some dulit British tones and you get convinced that maybe that would work and you've now instead after about two weeks of doing that and things have improved go back to your original schedule go back on to your original protocol I'm not as interested about the fact that things got better when we changed it I'm interested in the question do things get worse when we stop it and so when we stop the intervention if things got worse again now I'm I'm believing it a lot more