sleep time for a longer or shorter will not produce the same effect.
According to a recent research, sleep for an hour after lunch can make your brain younger five years. But the researchers also find that sleep time is longer or shorter will not produce the same effect. Accompanying the Daily Mail, such research involving around 3,000 respondents China aged more than 65 years, 60 percent of whom reported they always sleep the day after lunch for 30-90 minutes.
The participants are then given mathematics questions simple and memory test to assess their cognitive ability. The research was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that people who sleep for one hour after lunch to get a better test result than those who did not sleep a day.
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Even those who sleep more for just a little while longer, or not completely indicates a decline in cognitive skills 4-6 times greater than those who sleep longer. They also experienced the same decline in his mental capabilities, adding the age of five years is estimated to be the cause," said the main researcher Dr. Junxin Li.
Dr. Li add, cognitive function very closely related to sleep. The comparison shows that the sleeping day to provide enough cognitive development is better than that not sleep competitiveness or sleep in a long time.
"Who did not sleep day also indicates that there is a cognitive ability that is very poor compared to sleep only briefly," she continued.
