Living your life in air-conditioned comfort can actually put you more at risk from heat. Here’s why the age-old tradition of a midday nap could help.
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Traditionally cool countries need to look at how nations with high levels of heat adapt.
The benefits of naps are similar to those experienced after consuming caffeine, but without the side effects of caffeine dependence and possibly disrupted sleep at night time.
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Associate Professor, Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Science, University of Oxford
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Warumungu Elder and Director of the Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation, Tennant Creek, Indigenous Knowledge
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Purple House Medical Advisor. Honorary ANU., Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Australian National University