Daily Dose: Napping
What's Up Docs?
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🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
January is a month when we pay considerable attention to our health and wellbeing and we all want a little reminder of some tips and tricks for how best to care for and think about our minds and bodies.
In this first Daily Dose - if they can resist the temptation to snooze - Chris and Xand return to their episode on napping with Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. Russell offered up some very clear advice on what an ideal nap could look like and how we should rethink our relationship with sleep.
Daily Doses of expert wisdom from previous episodes of What’s Up Docs? will be dropping each weekday throughout January (except Tuesdays).
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Zand. |
| 0:09.0 | Zand. |
| 0:11.3 | Zandi. |
| 0:14.3 | Zand! |
| 0:15.0 | What? What? What time is it? |
| 0:18.5 | It's not nap time. It's recording time. |
| 0:21.0 | Oh. Is it? Recording what? It's not nap time. It's recording time. Oh. |
| 0:22.2 | Is it? |
| 0:22.7 | Recording what? |
| 0:23.6 | The daily dose sound. |
| 0:24.9 | We are on every day in January, remember? |
| 0:27.6 | And we are harking back to some of the incredible insights that our experts have given us over the year. |
| 0:33.9 | I think there is no month that needs those insights more than January. So it's not |
| 0:38.3 | advice, but it's very much a kind of, here's some stuff you may have forgotten. You might |
| 0:42.4 | want to refresh yourself on. I think that's right. A lot of us are looking for a bit of help |
| 0:49.1 | with our health and well-being in January. It is the month of resolutions after all. Resolutions |
| 0:53.8 | and revolutions. |
| 0:55.6 | They're not called that. Resid January. Resi- It's exciting and I'm sorry for nap shaming you, |
| 1:03.8 | but we do have to get on with this. For today's daily dose, we're returning to one of my favorite |
| 1:08.6 | episodes with Professor Russell Foster from the University of Oxford. He's a professor of circadian neuroscience. Well, that's right. So Russell |
| 1:15.7 | joined us for an entire episode on napping, didn't he? And he offered up some advice, which I think |
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