Peter Attia· MD
in that situation the nap is wrong you want the adenosine accumulation and you want it to draw your bedtime back earlier
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in that situation the nap is wrong you want the adenosine accumulation and you want it to draw your bedtime back earlier
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the problem with naps is that if you nap in during the day particularly if you nap in the late afternoon essentially what you're doing there is acting like a pressure valve on a steam cooker that you've building up all of this great healthy sleepiness there's sleep pressure and then you nap and Shh you'll just release some of that sleepiness so now when it comes to your normal bedtime you don't feel a sleepy why because the nap removed some of that sleepiness pressure it removed some of the adenosine and you are going to perhaps find it more difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep
my historical response to that has been you know gosh you really shouldn't need a nap i mean if you're sleeping correctly isn't that actually a negative thing because it's depleting some of that adenosine based pressure and wouldn't you be better off letting the pressure cooker cook and driving you into a deeper sleep when you first take your sleep
and that's why taking a nap is so difficult because what napping does is it basically kind of deflates your balloon a little bit of your sleep pressure it robs you of some of that sleep pressure so by the time you get around your bedtime if you've taken a long nap you've reduced how much sleep pressure you would ordinarily have at that time that's why napping could be dangerous
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