Monday, Monday. Sometimes even if you try to go to bed early, you end up tossing and turning unable to fall asleep. Lately, many of the articles that I stumbled upon seem to all have a common denominator. Sleep! Advice on how to get more sleep, warnings of negative health effects of no sleep….so I think I get it. Sleep equals happiness and tiredness equals wrinkles and illness. But getting enough sleep is not as easy as it sounds. Yesterday morning, I woke up early, hit the road running literally, drank coffee but not after lunch time only before, and I had supper cooked and eaten before 6 p.m. In theory, I should have been able to drift off to sleep. Nope. I woke up tired and sleepy. (Maybe it has something to with waking up a 4 a.m. after a busy weekend? Who knows, still exhausted.) How does one get enough Z’s in one night? There’s a group of researchers from Sydney, Australia that think they may have discovered a solution. It is something called a coffee nap. Apparently, one night of going to bed early is not enough to recharged the body, if you have been sleep-deprived for the last decade. If you can’t remember the last time, you had a “good night’s” rest, then you are probably suffering from “sleep debt.” You are in the negative. You need sleep and lots of it. You need naps. And there is a type of nap called the “coffee nap” that supposedly will wake you up more than a regular nap. Drink a cup a coffee, lay down and sleep for 15 minutes. According to research, it takes 30-45 minutes for the caffeine to be distributed to your body, so combined with taking a quick nap, you wake up feeling recharged and awake. But the thing is, if it takes 30 minutes for caffeine to be absorbed by the body why do I feel like Speedy Gonzales after one sip? Oh well. Check out the article.
