Do you love to make like a cat and snooze away some of the afternoon hours? Don’t feel guilty about it! Turns out napping has a whole slew of health benefits, including:
Makes you Leaner
Turns out getting a few Z’s helps you lose weight by upping your metabolism and shifting chemicals that affect appetite, so you’ll want to eat less while you burn more calories.
Makes your more Productive
Taking a break from work to get that quick 20 minutes of snooze time sharpens your thinking, improves your decision-making, increases accuracy and alertness, perks up your mood and speeds up your ability to do motor tasks.
Makes you Smarter
Napping boosts your ability to learn something new and, better yet, remember it by improving your memory, and as an added bonus, it puts your brain into its creative gear and sharpens your senses so you can come up with fresh ideas.
Makes you Healthier
Studies show napping can reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke, irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, and other cardiovascular problems. It also improves the way your body processes carbs, which reduces your risk of diabetes, relieves migraines, and triggers a naturally occurring hormone that blocks the destructive chemicals produced by stress.
Makes you Younger… and Sexier
Getting in that extra rest regenerates skin cells so you look younger, increases your sex drive and just makes you feel good all over!
—
Photo Credit: fizkes / Shutterstock.com