Grapevine: Prost Helps Out in Doctor's Research

Prost Grand Prix chairman Alain Prost has been involved in years of health-based research with French doctor Francois Duforez, it has been revealed.

Duforez's work in investigating the role chief executives play in decision-making ventures involved heavy research with Prost and various other Formula One drivers.

Duforez, whose study formed the basis of French firm Vielife, believes that the way in which leading sports figures alter their lifestyle to maximize their health and success can be adapted into the lives of chief executives to get the best out of their role at the head of a company.

"For chief executives, it's the same problem as sportsmen have," Duforez said to the British newspaper The Sunday Times. "Their need is not just to be in good health, it's too be in good health and to perform well."

Duforez's research has produced a theory that taking "power naps" in the middle of the day to manage a "sleep debt" extracts the best possible performance from human beings.