If you're that woman who has a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep throughout the night, don't go away because I have something for you. The most important thing for our body is sleep. We spend about one third of our life in that position. But the biggest problem that people have worldwide is that they're not getting the quality sleep. So there are cells that our body can repair and heal. Lack of sleep can lead to many health problems. It affects your skin. It affects your focus in your mind, it can make you gain weight, as well as affecting your cardiovascular system. It can also lead the metabolic syndrome, causing diabetes as well as immune deficiency and lack of sleep will affect your leptin and ghrelin levels, and it will stimulate your appetite causing you to crave more high fat and high carbohydrate foods. And the bottom line is extra fat. during daylight hours, the human body hums along at an average temperature of 98.6 degrees. But at night, our core body temperature dips up to two degrees Fahrenheit and the gradual decrease in our core body temperature, as it turns out is a key part and the complicated neurobiological dance of falling asleep and staying asleep. What does this mean? The faster our core body temperature can lower down, the faster we're going to fall asleep and stay asleep much longer. So one of the ways that your body regulates its temperature is through the blood vessels in your skin. So when the brain perceives a part of the body too hot, it will dilate meaning it will widen those blood vessels and it will redistribute warmer blood from the body screen.
through the rest of the body to cool it down. So if the body is too cold, we would get the opposite reaction, the vessels would basil constrict or get narrower. And that's not good when it comes to go into sleep. But here's a solution. Get a pair of socks, and put your socks on before you go to bed, and that will warm up your feet. And that will cause a visible dilation, getting more blood in the area. And in turn, this will lower your body's core temperature faster when you go to sleep. The brain thermostat is located in a region called the preoptic anterior hypothalamus. And the neurons in the brain increases its firing rate when there's a temperature difference between the body's core and extremities, like in the feet, so I challenge everyone to get your pair of socks, put them on your feet before you go to bed. This will cause that basal dilation. All that blood gets into the feet. It will send a neurological stimulation back to the brain. It will cause your metabolism, your metabolic rate to slow down as your body temperature drops. And this will get you to sleep and keep you to sleep much much longer. Please share this article with your friends and family. Leave your comments below. And most important, make it a great day.
