About 30-50% of people struggle to fall asleep. A hot bath before bed works because it triggers your body's cooling response, lowering core temperature and activating your parasympathetic nervous system to reduce stress.
30 to 50% of people today have sleeping problems. So what you could do is taking that hot bath before you go to bed, because that's gonna help your body wind down and also the core temperature will go down and that's what you need for falling asleep. So you're actually helping your body by exposing yourself to heat. And it sounds a bit counterintuitive, but that's gonna make your core temperature drop actually, and that will help you fall asleep. Also, it will help on your stress level because it activates your parasympathetic part of your nervous system while you are submerged into this hot water. So you will have it easier falling asleep. Hot water, hot baths are a miracle for people who have trouble sleeping. And if people are stressed, this is actually a really good way to like wind down and just take a hot bath and then you can go to sleep. You'll sleep much faster.
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