Saved by the Siesta: fight tiredness and boost your health by unlocking the science of napping

by Brice Faraut, Eric Rosencrantz (Translation)

An expert guide to the new health trend that is helping people around the world feel more energised and less stressed.Saved by the Siesta explains how siestas work and the remarkable role they can play in overcoming the destructive effects that a shortage of sleep can have on the brain and the body.A daytime nap fulfils all the same functions as a night’s sleep — it’s hormonal, purifying, curative, consolidating, and reinvigorating. It also helps us to combat sleepiness, pain, depression, weak immunity, stress, hypertension, excess weight, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.But to take advantage of all this we need to be aware of the siesta’s its various types; the correct body position to adopt; the times that are conducive to sleeping; the most effective duration; the stages of sleep that heighten awareness, cognitive performance, memory, and creativity; and how to get to sleep quickly and wake up without feeling sleepy.Saved by the Siesta provides all this information, and more. It is a lucid and accessible synthesis of the science of sleep, and a practical guide to the benefits of napping.

192 pages, Paperback

Published December 30, 2021

Reviews

[notgettingenough · Rating 2 out of 5]

To set the scene, I have been desperately sleep-deprived for some time. My mother suggested this book and I found myself starting it on the sofa at 3.30am a few weeks ago, after waking up and knowing going back to sleep was impossible. No better time to seek rescue in a book which I could well believe might save my life. That was my theory.

In practice, I think that the title promises much and delivers little. For a start most of the book tells you why sleep is important and the impact of being sleep-deprived. But we all know that. It's why, after all, we buy the book, because we know how important it is and we can't get it. He explains the different sleep waves of night sleep, which is partly because the siesta is going to emulate them. It's quite well written, presumably well-researched, and it is interesting to read of how badly we sleep in the noise and pollution and expectations and technology of the present. But none of that helps get more sleep. Get to the siesta bit p-lease. I need to read it before I literally die of sleep deprivation.

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[Gary Law · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is not really a self-help book. It quite ably presents the current scientific understanding of the benefits of the different stages of sleep - and conversely the potentially huge health impact of sleep deprivation. The research behind this work is thoroughly cited, enabling the interested reader to follow-up on areas of interest.