Health Hack for Better Sleep

The next thing I want to talk about is a weighted blanket. A weighted blanket is very interesting in that it's kind of that pressure, the weight on your body. It's kind of like your body being cuddled when you're young by your mother or in your mother's womb. When you're kind of wrapped, you're swaddled. Some people whose nervous systems are really ramped up, whose sympathetic nervous systems can't calm down, that weighted blanket actually gives you a very similar calming effect. Your nervous system typically want that weighted blanket to be about 10% of your body weight. So, for example, I weigh about 170 pounds. I'd want a 17 pound blanket, plus or minus. You want to make sure the blankets are the weight inside them is glass and not plastic. A lot of these cheaper ones actually are made of plastic and the plastic will off gas. And ideally it'd be an organic blanket with these glass beads in there that actually can be give that weight to you and not expose you to chemicals.