The MRL Show: Nap Facts

Beasley Digital

4/22/2025

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00:00In 25 years, I probably have napped 25 years, like sleeping beauty.

00:07You would think, read the headline one more time.

00:10Let me just like observe it, absorb it.

00:13Napping too much could lead to early death, a new study finds.

00:16I wonder why that is, because you would think, like people always tell you, get your beauty

00:21rest, you know, make sure you get eight hours of sleep at night so that your brain is working

00:26properly in the morning.

00:28Wait till you hear.

00:29It is even more tailored towards me.

00:32Those who nap more on average have a greater risk of developing high blood pressure and

00:38stroke, according to a new analyst published Monday in the hypertension category of the

00:45American Heart Association Journal.

00:47That's me.

00:48I have hypertension.

00:49I'm on a daily pill, y'all, for the last three years.

00:53And I'm like, what?

00:55I'm not sure that's because of your naps.

00:58But you're going against the American Heart Association Journal.

01:01I just don't understand the correlation, because if you have high blood pressure, typically

01:06you're like too wound tight to to nap.

01:09A lot of times you're tired, though, and you do nap, especially if you take that pill.

01:14Hypertension puts you at a risk for heart disease and stroke, which are the leading causes

01:17of death in the U.S.

01:18So the researchers looked at sleep habits and medical histories of some 360,000 people.

01:26That's a ton of people.

01:27That's a lot of people.

01:28OK.

01:28Now, granted, it was in the U.K., but they found that participants who took naps on most

01:33days saw a 24 percent increase in their likelihood of stroke.

01:37Wow.

01:38And were 12 percent more likely to be diagnosed with hypertension over time.

01:42OK, so follow me for a second.

01:44This is going to sound crazy.

01:46But did we ever think to maybe start eating better to lower our cholesterol so that we

01:50didn't have to be on the pill?

01:52Thus, the naps wouldn't affect us in a negative fashion.

01:55Yes.

01:55But let me take you back to a conversation I had with my doctor years ago.

01:59High blood pressure.

02:00Took it again.

02:01High blood pressure.

02:01There's something called white coat.

02:04Yeah.

02:04You're a fear of the actual being at the doctor.

02:08Right.

02:08And then I'm also I knew I wanted my number to get down.

02:11So I'm sitting there as the cup is being pressed up.

02:14So he goes, it's not working, Manny.

02:17We have two options.

02:18I go, what are my options?

02:19He goes, you can either knock out beer, alcohol, wings, salty food.

02:23And I go, and my other option, he goes, you could get on a daily pill, but you're a

02:26little young for it.

02:27I go, write me up the pill.

02:28What are we talking here?

02:30You kidding me?

02:31That's what I said.

02:32This might be crazy.

02:33But do we ever think maybe to cut the alcohol and salty foods?

02:36So people who nap, it's even more worrisome in those ages 60 and under, as napping most

02:42days led to a 20% higher chance of developing high blood pressure.

02:47This is so you.

02:47This article should have said, hey, Steve Maney, I got one for you.

02:52My doctor says that the high blood pressure is hereditary.

02:55And my dad has it.

02:56My mom has it.

02:57I think so, too.

02:57When I did my virtual visit with my dad the other day after he had a health scare, he's

03:02on three different blood pressure pills.

03:04I'm like, what?

03:05So I said to the doctor, I go, can't we just get him on one?

03:08He goes, no, no, we have to.

03:09We can't just take him off any there.

03:10There's a reason why.

03:11Right.

03:11He's on different ones for different reasons, I'm sure.

03:14All right.

03:14So no more naps.

03:16I'm going to take a second job so I can stay awake during the afternoon because that's

03:19why I fall asleep.

03:20I go home.

03:21I eat.

03:21And I'm like, all right, let me just catch up on DVR.

03:24I don't know that not taking the nap is the better option, though.

03:27Like what?

03:28I'd like to see the health precautions for the people who don't take naps because then they're going

03:32to die and they're cranky.

03:34Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

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