Hi there, it's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast and welcome back to

another of those AMA episodes, Ask Me anything, episodes.

And what's wonderful is that I am again joined by the bright, the dazzling, the flashing,

the radiant the

the sparkling, sparkling, vivid, the gleaming the illustrious

individual called Dr. Ety Ben Simone.

Ety, welcome back to the show.

I'm a Broadway musical by now.

Happy to be here. You know if you've got that talent I've never seen it in lab meeting but you know

I'm working on it. Bang out a couple of show tunes for us. We'd love it. Okay, so why don't we just dig straight into the first question?

The first question is about Parnaps. What do you say about their optimal length and timing and just overall benefits?

Ooh, good question. And I did do an episode a while back, I think it was called something

crass because I named it, which was like the art of napping or something or

optimal napping. But again, folks can check that out, but here is the TLDR, sort of too long, didn't read, give me the

cliff notes, what's the high-level summary.

Overall, lots of people, including ourselves, have done lots of studies on naps and sure enough

naps of different durations can offer some really great benefits. I will come on to the reason

why they could be a double-edged sword, but perhaps they're a double-edged sword for not just one reason, which is maybe a more serious one, which is if you're suffering from insomnia, why you should not be napping during the day.

But the inherent danger that comes with napping called sleep inertia.

And sleep inertia, most people will know of this it's that sort of slightly

groggy almost sleep hangover effect that you get when you take a nap and maybe

it's a nap that's quite long or maybe even longer than you

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