Coffee Naps Better For Alertness Than Coffee Or Naps Alone Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 29, 2014 @10:10AM from the meth-naps-still-frowned-upon dept. An anonymous reader writes: Caffeine is a staple of most workplaces — its rare to find an office without a coffee pot or a fridge full of soda. Its necessary (or at least feels like its necessary) because many workers have a hard time staying awake while sitting at a desk for hours at a time, and the alternative — naps — arent usually allowed. But new research shows it might be more efficient for employers to encourage brief coffee naps, which are more effective at returning people to an alert state than either caffeine or naps alone. A coffee nap is when you drink a cup of coffee, and then take a sub-20-minute nap immediately afterward. This works because caffeine takes about 20 minutes to get into your bloodstream, and a 20-minute nap clears adenosine from your brain without putting you into deeper stages of sleep. In multiple studies, tired participants who took coffee naps made fewer mistakes in a driving simulator after they awoke than the people who drank coffee without a nap or slept without ingesting caffeine.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:37:51 +0000
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