If you don’t already strip down for bed time, you might want to rethink that! According to experts, sleeping naked is not only super comfortable, but better for your health!
While sleeping naked helps regulate your temperature and prevents you from waking up at weird hours in the morning, it also helps keep bacteria that love warm moist areas away. Sleeping nude with your partner has also been found to boost your immune system!
According to a poll from the National Sleep Foundation, only 12% of Americans actually sleep naked every night. Doctors and researchers both recommend it highly as our bodies are designed to decrease in temperature while we sleep which keeps us comfortable throughout the night, this decrease helps our bodies determine when to fall asleep and when to wake up. Warmer skin has been found to disrupt sleep in humans and animals.
Published in the journal Brain: ‘By employing a thermosuit to control skin temperature during nocturnal sleep, we demonstrate that induction of a mere 0.4 degrees C increase in skin temperature, whilst not altering core temperature, suppresses nocturnal wakefulness (P<0.001) and shifts sleep to deeper stages (P<0.001) in young and, especially, in elderly healthy and insomniac participants,’
The benefits of sleeping in the nude don’t end there, it’s been found to help increase metabolism too! The healthy fat found around your neck is activated when you sleep in cooler temperatures, this good fat generates body heat and that helps you burn calories. Keeping cool at night decreases cortisol and helps increase growth hormones, Men’s Health reports, this helps create better sleeping patterns and can help reduce your tummy size! Continue reading