Siesta reduces levels of stress

• April 19, 2024

Researchers of the Allergheny College of Pennsylvania In the United States, they demonstrated that taking a 45-minute daily nap generates a decrease in blood pressure , especially in people who live with a lot stress and emotional tension.

According to the magazine International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, long working hours, shift work, television and Internet, are affecting the quality of the dream of people, to the point that citizens sleep on average, almost 2 hours less a day than half a century ago. This affects long-term health and, in fact, there are studies that relate the lack of dream with an increased risk of hypertension Y cardiovascular problems .

To try to reduce this impact, researchers Ryan Brindle Y Sarah Conklin of the Allergheny College of Pennsylvania, analyzed whether napping could influence cardiovascular recovery after a test of mental stress .

For this, 85 healthy university students were selected and divided into two groups, so that some of the participants were assigned an hour a day in which they could sleep for at least 60 minutes. At the same time, the students completed some questionnaires to evaluate the quality of the dream and know your physical activity daily, while also measuring its blood pressure and the heart rate .

In this way, they observed that the nap seemed to have a restorative effect on the students since, although in all the blood pressure and the heart rate increased during the beginning of his day, those who slept nap they showed a decrease of both markers. These results were more evident when students slept between 45 and 60 minutes a day.

According to the researchers of Allergheny College of Pennsylvania, "The findings suggest that the nap can accelerate the cardiovascular recovery after a situation of stress mental".

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