Do you struggle with sleep? Set your thermostat at this temperature! #sleep #shorts #viral

Name: Do you struggle with sleep? Set your thermostat at this temperature! #sleep #shorts #viral
Uploaded: 2024-02-20T21:57:46+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Rich Bello
Description: Short spoken advice from Rich Bello recommending lowering bedroom temperature to improve sleep. Bello states that the body must reduce core temperature…

20 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Short spoken advice from Rich Bello recommending lowering bedroom temperature to improve sleep. Bello states that the body must reduce core temperature by about 2.5°F to initiate sleep and advises setting home thermostats to roughly 60–65°F to trigger sleep-related melatonin release.

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Approximately 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit ("2 1/2 degrees Fahrenheit").

Set the thermostat to about 60–65°F.

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Room temperature. Your body, your core body temperature needs to be reduced by 2 1/2 degrees Fahrenheit to induce sleep. It just happens. We have thermostats in our homes now that screws us kind of like the light bulb. Now we've got these thermostats keep the temperature the same or it can now we have more sophisticated ones. We want to use that technology to reduce the temperature. So constant thermostat driven room temperatures, really big problem. Set your thermostat, believe it or not, 60 to 65. That seems cold to people. Be cold. When it's cold you're like, oh, it's great to sleep under the covers and it's more comfortable. Your brain has a thermometer. So just like it has a clock, just like the superchismatic clock in the circadian rhythm, it has a thermometer. It can tell, hey, it's starting to get cold. Time for us to go to sleep. Starts releasing melatonin.