During fasting, we must wake up early for the meal and the diet also changes. So naturally when in the day we are easily drowsy and finally decided to take a nap for a while.
Make no mistake, napping during fasting is not just eliminate sleepiness alone. There are other benefits to the health of the body. Curious?
Normally we sleep for 7-8 hours per day. However, when fasting generally people only sleep for 5-6 hours only.
In addition, the diet during fasting also changes; we can only eat from time to evening until imsak only.
All these changes make the body's metabolism also change. This is why we tend to get sleepy during fasting, especially during the day.
In fact, napping too long does have a bad effect on the body, one of which increases the risk of diabetes.
However, if we nap no more than 30 minutes, there will be many benefits for the health of the body.
Here are the benefits of a nap when fasting is a pity to miss:
1. Strengthening memory and keeping focus
During sleep, the area of the brain that serves to store the memory will be reactivated. Nerve activity that occurs during sleep strengthens the ability of memory in the long term. We will find it easier to understand and learn something and remember it.
2. Improve heart health
All the organs in the body work according to their respective time, one of them the heart. When sleepy, there will be an increase in blood pressure that can aggravate the work of the heart.
That is why, sleep is the most powerful drug to overcome sleepiness, especially when fasting. During siesta, we provide time for the heart to rest for a moment.
Research shows that people who sleep less at risk of heart disease while people who sleep better than the risk of death from heart disease.
3. Reduce stress
Many of the disadvantages found in the body when we are stressed, one of them becomes easier to fall ill.
Napping helps the body to lower cortisol levels and lower blood pressure so as to reduce stress while lowering the risk of heart disease.
4. Help the opponent of hunger
Napping becomes an alternative way to suppress hunger and desire to eat. Sleep proved to limit ghrelin and increase leptin, the two metabolic hormones that regulate hunger and appetite.
5. Increase the mood
Napping helps restore the body's system and neuroendocrine hormones back to normal levels, just like hormone levels after a restful night's sleep.
6. Improve skin health
Napping helps extend the regeneration of skin and tissues so that the skin helps keep moist and look fresher.
7. Recharge the power
Fasting is not a reason to laze around, we still have to move as usual. When the body feels tired, then do not hesitate to take a nap for a moment.
Motor system that is used continuously during the activity will be tired so that work slower and not focus. Napping briefly can reduce motor fatigue, we can re-excited to do activities.
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