{"id":33286,"date":"2017-01-08T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/hour-long-nap-may-boost-brain-function-in-older-adults"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:40","slug":"hour-long-nap-may-boost-brain-function-in-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/hour-long-nap-may-boost-brain-function-in-older-adults","title":{"rendered":"Hour-Long Nap May Boost Brain Function in Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hour-long-nap-may-boost-brain-function-in-older-adults.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My grandparents taught me the importance of a power nap; and it does help.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We\u2019re not sure what the boss would have to say about it if you suddenly downed tools and made a decision to have a little sleep, but new research has found that taking an hour\u2019s nap after lunch can have a number of health benefits, including preventing brain ageing.<\/p>\n<p>The study conducted among the older Chinese men by a team of worldwide researchers concentrated mainly on post-lunchtime napping and its impact on the health of elderly people.<\/p>\n<p>Do you hesitate to take a sleep after having your lunch, now you should not.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/myhealthbowl.com\/2017\/01\/08\/hour-long-nap-may-boost-brain-function-in-older-adults.html\">http:\/\/myhealthbowl.com\/2017\/01\/08\/hour-long-nap-may-boost-b...dults.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandparents taught me the importance of a power nap; and it does help. We\u2019re not sure what the boss would have to say about it if you suddenly downed tools and made a decision to have a little sleep, but new research has found that taking an hour\u2019s nap after lunch can have a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1495,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65417,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33286\/revisions\/65417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}