You can’t get a REM cycle in 30 minutes, so that short of a nap is just going to make you more tired.
They can have my afternoon naps when they pry my cold dead butt off the den couch.
For me the optimal nap duration is 90 minutes, the natural REM cycle.
Seems more likely that those who need to nap 90 minutes are having sleep apnea or other sleep issues.
Boy am I glad I can’t nap. 🙂
Does getting drunk and falling to sleep count?
A whole lot of Mexicans took longer Siestas, and there are still a whole lot of Mexicans.
Maybe those with a-fib are more tired and are more likely to nap?
When I retired in 2003, I got in the habit of taking a short nap on the couch in the afternoon. I stopped doing it, because I always felt more tired when I got up. I can’t remember the last time I ever took a nap. When I was working, I was on the 3-11 p.m. shift and very rarely, the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift. From the day I retired, I couldn’t bring myself to go to bed early, and even now, all these years later, I stay up to at least 4 a.m., and sleep for 7 or 8 hours. Breakfast is brunch for me.
Sleep apnea?
Since the medical field has been so trust-worthy over the past few years, I will totally pay attention to this advice. No more hour-long afternoon naps for me! No, indeed! Thirty minute naps will be all I’ll take!
If you’re going to get A-fib, you’re going to get A-fib. It doesn’t matter what you do.
I’ve known people who got it when they were 65 and others who got it while they were in their 40s... There is no rhyme or reason... There is only one thing that will predominately determine your future... Genetics.
99% of what happens to you health wise is a result of genetics... That’s the long and short of it. The concept that you can control your health is mostly nonsense. You can’t, because your genetics will determine what happens to you in life.
Just ask Jim Fixx... Actually you can’t because he died of heart attack at the age of 52 while running, but he did write a famous book ‘The Book of Running’ that health freaks grasped on to as a ‘fix’ for healthy living. Given the fact that he died at a relatively young age, the idea that running is an elixir for health was exposed as completely fraudulent, but for some odd reason people still think they can add years to their life by running... It didn’t work out to well for Jim Fixx though, did it?
Running won’t save you and neither will anything else... Your genes and God will determine the time of your demise.
Is this from the same people who recommended that we all wear face diapers for 3 years?
Or daytime sleepiness (and hence long naps) is associated with sleep apnea which is a risk for a fib
30 minute nap? That just doesnt compute for me. I did work with a guy tho that could sit down and sleep sitting up. Hed be asleep in seconds and in 10 minutes wake up refreshed. Incidentally, he was Vietnamese. Eastern meditation technique maybe? For me a nap aint a nap unless its an hour or 2.
I am not so sure I can trust any medical article anymore. This just screams, yet again, that everything is a threat to us...even sleeping somehow.
Correlation is not causation.
1. Daytime naps cause AFib.
2. AFib causes daytime naps.
3. Both are caused by other untested factors.
Calling BULLSHIRT on this.
Science?
And the jabs are SAFE and EFFECTIVE.