Adjust Your HVAC For A Perfect Night Sleep

Derek Cole explains how to optimize your bedroom for sleep by adjusting temperature to 65-72°F, keeping humidity between 30-50%, and improving air quality with purifiers and fresh filters every three months.
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65–72°F
30–50%
Every month
No more than three months
Created/uploaded by Derek Cole on 2023-02-14
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Are you getting a good night's sleep? It's been proven. Study over study report. I have to report a good night's sleep makes all the difference. It can really make all the difference physically, mentally, it can make, make a difference in how you feel, how you function. If you're having trouble sleeping though, adjusting your home's heating and air can help you create that perfect environment where you have the best chance of getting those seven to eight hours of sleep. It's about temperature control. Your body, your body naturally lowers the temperature when you sleep. So keeping your bedroom cool, cool being, you know, between 65 degrees and 72 degrees Fahrenheit. And this is from research from the National Sleep Foundation. But keeping a room cool can help the process along, help you get a better night's sleep. Because sitting the Temperature lower to 65 can make you feel cold, can lead you to feel cold. And sitting above 72 can make you feel warm, too warm and you have trouble falling asleep. So really 65 to 72 degrees is that real sweet spot. And your body naturally lowers the temperature when you go to sleep. And one of the things that within your body's circadian rhythm gets it to wake up is the actual, the body is warming up, actually makes you wake up. So keeping that room cool can make a difference. Also controlling the humidity in the house or in the room can make a difference. And the ideal humidity you're looking for is somewhere between 30 to 50%. It's really ideal because anything too low will dry, dry you out, dry your skin out. Anything too high will make you feel warm again. You'll have trouble, you'll have trouble going to sleep when you're too warm. Another aspect of it is air quality, indoor air quality, poor sleep is, you know, it could be the allergens, pollutants in your bedroom or where you're sleeping can affect how well you breathe while you're asleep and limit how deeply you can go into that rapid eye movement sleep cycle, which is very important to get into that cycle. So it's very important to have a, you know, a comfortable room temperature and humidity and then having the indoor air quality. And you can do this easily by using air purifiers. They've improved to proven to remove dust mites, pet dander, pollen, mold spores, kind of common allergens in that indoor space. Also improving airflow throughout your home by changing out those old filters. Air filters is one of those things that's going to affect your efficiency, but it can affect your sleep quality as well. So every month, every month you are checking and changing those filters, right? And you're going to not more than three months without changing the filters. You know, in the middle, middle of the year, middle of the season, or in between seasons, it's going to be that kind of a period where the unit is not running too much. So it's probably not getting a filter, you know, dirty enough where it needs to be changed. But it should be checked. It should be checked every month to make sure it's not in that place. But also when you check it, you don't want to go further in three months without exchanging it. So regardless if it needs it or not, three months is kind of your cue. Let's go ahead and change it. Let's, let's, let's change it out after three months. But, you know, adjusting temperature, humidity, adjust it to what feels comfortable, comfortable for you. Again, it's probably going to be between 65 and 72, and the humidity between 30% and 50% is probably where you're going to feel comfortable at. And also indoor quality, indoor air quality is the key. Improve the airflow, use purifiers, change your filters. Just little tweaks you can do at home to get that perfect night's sleep.
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