Coffee, nap, rave, repeat...

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ever wondered how much caffeine is too much? Or whether you’d feel better off if you took an afternoon nap? And with the rise in ‘day raving’ we’ll be looking at whether it’s better for your health to have your night out at 2pm rather than 2am. We’ll learn about the amount of caffeine in different drinks, looking at what it does to the body in the short-term and finding out more about what effects it can have when it comes to things like dementia and cardiovascular disease.

Then we’ll be following a strict scientifically-approved napping schedule and hearing what impact those bonus sleep sessions can have on brain function – while catching 40 winks in some unusual locations.

After that, we’ll take all that energy and party the afternoon (and early evening) away at a daytime rave to find out if that is better for our bodies than pulling an all-nighter.

Along the way we’ll be joined by people who know way more about these things than us, from a Spanish sleep whizz in Manchester to a body boffin in Barry Island.

Producer: Gerry Holt Presenter: Laura Foster Editor: Holly Squire Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Ria Elena. Unexcited. You're dead to me. The comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. Music, radio, podcasts.
0:41.7	We're starting today with a bit of a beat, because here at Inside Health, we've got our hands in the air and our finger on the pulse.
0:50.2	And we've spotted a new trend, the rise in what's called day raving,
0:55.9	where more people are choosing to have their night out dancing at 2pm rather than 2 a.m.
1:01.6	You're encouraged to go out June a day and have a dance and have a boogie
1:05.5	and just be yourself and be whatever way you want to be.
1:08.6	I think that is such a lovely, lovely, lovely thing. You know, if this allows more people to come out and dance, because it is so good for us, right?
1:14.6	It is a brilliant form of exercise, then, hey, more day discos, more day raves.
1:19.6	And we couldn't help but wonder what it does to the body,
1:22.6	if you choose to go out out in the afternoon rather than the evening.
1:34.3	Later on, I'll be trying to chat to a body boffin while pulling some of my best moves.
1:43.3	To best prepare me for all that, I'm going to investigate the science behind the perfect nap by giving it a go myself. But first...
1:44.3	Coffee.
1:48.2	How much coffee or tea is too much?
1:50.5	I'm off to find out what caffeine does to the body
1:52.8	and hear all about the signs you might be having too much.
1:57.5	I'm meeting Damien Bailey,
1:59.4	a professor of physiology at the University of South Wales
2:02.2	at Marcos on Barry Island. It's a bright blue cafe by the seaside, a place made famous by the TV
2:08.9	show Gavin and Stacey. Can I get a strong pot of tea, please? I'll go for a skinny flat white.
2:22.3	Damien, thank you for leaving your lab to have a brew with me. Pleasure. Any excuse for a good coffee.
2:24.3	Yeah.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.