Afternoon Nap Vs Night Sleep

There is always a question "however late I sleep in the night Can't I make it out with Afternoon nap?"

"No, you cannot" is the answer. If you miss out half to one hour in the night once in a while and sleep off for half an hour in the afternoon, it is OK, but to do this regularly is very bad for health.

Nowadays it is a style to sleep late in the night around 2 and 3am , then try to sleep in the afternoon or sleep late in to the day. Our body will never get accustomed to that. You'll be losing out on your health.

My kids are doing that and I am not able to convince them. Actually they know it is wrong but their job is like that. Son is a software Engg and he has to work out late and my daughter has to finish her household work before she goes to the office the next day. so both of them sleep late in the weekends , sometimes will not get up till 12 noon.

There should be many like my children out there. I am trying my best to tell them to change their style of living.Our body has a set job to do in the night time. It is revival period. I got a forward from my Uncle which I am reproducing here in a part.

Because :

Evening at 9 - 11 PM : is the time for eliminating unnecessary/ toxic chemicals
(detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their
homework, this will have a negative impact on health.

Evening at 11pm - 1 am : is the detoxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3 am : detoxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 3 - 5 am :
detoxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be
a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the detoxification process
had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.

Morning 5 - 7am :
detoxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel.

Morning 7 - 9 am : absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30 am , for those who are
sick. Breakfast before 7:30 am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to
eat breakfast late until 9 - 10 am rather than no meal at all.

Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4:00 am is the time when the bone marrow
produces blood. Therefore, have a good sleep and don't sleep late.


Please try to change your life style without hurting your body.

Love
Latha

 

Yes Shoba, What you said is right. We have never done in our childhood what all these kids do now. Why, in my times there was no TV, only radio. That too at 9pm there'll be a news in English. My Father used to send all of us to bed, for him to be able to listen to the news peacefully. and then he'll also go to bed. By 9.30 all the lights were off.

My Children are also like that. Don't know what to do. It will catch up with them sooner than we think. You see many under thirty are suffering nowadays with their workload and wrong timings.
Love
Latha

 

Dear Rathi,

But we all went through those days remember? We spent nights with our kids when they were babies but nothing happened to us. Maybe our body has some other calculations at that time. After sometime the mother gets used to sleeping when the baby sleeps, and then the hormones help us , I think. Only for the first 2.3 months the mother looks harassed but after that that tired feeling goes off.
Love
Latha

 

Dear Sunkan,

I also worried till my daughter got married. But when I saw the family she got into, I was happy for her. They were also of the same group, sleeping after 1 & 2 am in the nights and sleeping till 10&11 am in the mornings.
Even her MIL used to get up after 8 or so.

So something will happen . Don't start worrying now itself. She'll get used to what she has to do. These days modern girls are not like us. They can adapt easily.

Love
Latha

 

Srini,

Don't let her see my earlier comment, that they can adapt easily. I do hope some people will change after reading this article.

There are many grown ups who have late nights and think it is fashion. Let them at least learn a lesson. Some learn by experience only and do we need that experience? need to suffer for our faults and bad living?

Now my daughter has started seeing reason, when she came this time she went to bed by 11pm and got up at 7.30 . This was very much better than she used to do. Everyone will learn. I hope so

Latha