Best Times To Do Just About Anything

Best time of day to go to the doctor 8 a.m.

More than 30 and you may end up with sleep inertia and feel even more groggy when the nap’s over.

An ideal nap, he says, should last 15 to 20 minutes.

If anyone in the house has allergies or asthma, avoid insomnia-hour and morning cleaning sprees nasal-allergy symptoms are most severe between 6 a.m.

Many lab tests require fasting, so a morning appointment will help you avoid being hungry half the day.

But Schwab insists that if we weren’t all so sleep-deprived, we wouldn’t need naps in the first place.

Pediatricians’ and family-practice offices can get mobbed when work and school let out 5 p.m.

“But we’ve found that in the early afternoon there’s a dip in body temperature, which causes sleepiness,” says Smolensky.

“It takes about an hour for allergens and dust to settle after you clean,” says Martha White, M.D., director of research at the Institute for Asthma and Allergy, in Wheaton, Maryland.

Use your body’s natural rhythms and a few tips from the experts to find the best time of day to work out, see a doctor, go to the post office, and more.