Want to make your coffee more effective to take your drowsiness during a monotonous afternoon? Follow it with a small 15-minute nap. Find a boss who accepts the idea well? Good luck…
A new study shows that drinking caffeine immediately before a 15 to 20 minute nap can significantly improve alert state “More than doing any of the things in isolation.”
The UK Transport Department tested in 2007 this combination to reduce the steering wheel and avoid accidents during the dreaded energy break in the middle of the afternoon.
The results of the, published in the PsychophysiologyThey showed that a rapid “caffeine nap” helped drivers stay more attentive.
The council applies to both the road and those who just need survive a meeting at three in the afternoonsays to.
In the experience, the researchers studied two groups of sleepy volunteers in a driving simulator. One of the groups received 200 milligrams of caffeine. The other received the same dose, but combined with a nap that did not exceed 15 minutes.
Each participant took a first trip, took a 30 -minute break and then returned to a two -hour monotonous driving, in the middle of the afternoon – precisely when most people feel a decrease in energy.
In the placebo group, the mixture of driving incidents, as well as the subjective and electroencephalographic measurements of drowsiness, clearly reflected the peak of Afternoon fatigue.
“This peak was significantly reduced by caffeine and eliminated by combined treatment, which reduced incidents to 9% Placebo levels, against 34% of placebo levels with caffeine only, ”wrote the authors of the study.
But the best news is that You don’t even need to fall asleep deeply for it to work. “Seads that consisted of ‘Deep sleepless heads‘They were equally effective, ”said the investigators.
In another study, published in 2008 in the Journal of Sleep Researchscientists at Loughborough University confirmed that a nap was the most effective way – Better than caffeine alone and even better than sleep more the night before – to reduce what they called the “Break in the afternoon” of drowsiness.
Researchers, who studied the impact of longer sleep nights on the next day’s alert levels, concluded that as the day advanced to the night, The sixths became a little less effectivesince late drowsiness was fought more effectively with caffeine.
“O sprolonged ono seemed largely superfluous It is ineffective in reducing moderate levels of drowsiness when compared to a nap at the right time, or even caffeine, ”wrote the study authors.
Therefore, the next time you have a long afternoon ahead, the best way to stay awake is drinking a coffee and, soon after, making a nap.
Find a boss who accepts the idea? Well, this is another subject …
