Below are some reasons that will prompt you to start sleeping na-ked.However,
researchers have studied the art and act of sleeping and voluminous
benefits and advantages have been revealed aside from its number one
benefit which is providing rest for the body. Researchers have also made
it known much more than sleeping,the duration you sleep, the
temperature of the room you sleep in, the position you sleep most, the
foods you take in and many other unthinkable factors can contribute to
getting the best out of sleep time and reaping its numerous benefits.
Furthermore,
an international foundation called U.S. National Sleep Foundation has
made it known that what one wears to sleep affects his?her sleep. It
asserts that sleeping without any clothes on has numerous advantages and
benefits. Experts revealed to DailyMail how giving your pyjamas a long
time holiday can be beneficial to you.
For a good night’s sleepSleep
experts agree it is important to keep cool at night as your body
temperature needs to drop by about half a degree for you to fall asleep.
The brain, driven by your internal body clock, sends messages to the
blood vessels to open up and release heat.
“Your core temperature
is at its highest at 11:00p.m. and its lowest at 4:00a.m,” said Dr Chris
Idzikowski, Director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, Scotland, and
author of ‘Sound Asleep: The Expert Guide To Sleeping Well.’ “If
anything prevents that decline in temperature, the brain will wake
itself up to see what’s going on, meaning you’ll struggle to get to
sleep or you’ll have disturbed sleep.
“The advantage of sleeping
naked is it’s easier for the body to cool and maintain the lower
temperature the brain wants to achieve,” he said.
Disrupted sleep
from being too hot does not just mean you will get less sleep overall,
but it might mean less deep sleep which is the most restorative type.
Deep sleep is key for memory consolidation and the production of growth
hormone — important for cell repair and growth.
Stop infectionsWearing
nothing to bed can help women avoid developing yeast infections, such
as thrush, says Austin Ugwumadu, a consultant gynaecologist at St
George’s Hospital in South London.
“Thrush loves warm, restricted
environments. So, wear something loose or preferably nothing at all. “If
you wear something tight, it means less air gets to the area and you’re
more likely to sweat, which can cause irritation,” he said.
Burn caloriesThere
is an increasing focus on brown fat, a type of tissue in the body that
may protect against weight gain. While ordinary body fat piles on when
we eat more calories than we burn, brown fat seems to burn excess
calories to generate heat.
We know babies have lots of brown fat,
they need it to keep warm but studies have shown there are small amounts
in the necks of adults too. Experts believe that certain activities
could switch on this fat, potentially helping to burn calories at a
greater rate.
In a U.S. study in the journal Diabetes, researchers
found that sleeping in a cold bedroom could activate brown fat in
adults. Five healthy young men slept in climate-controlled bedrooms for
four months. For the first month, the room was kept at 24°C, then it was
lowered to 19°C, then it went back to 24°C and for the last month
raised to 27°C.
They ate the same amount of calories and their
calorie expenditure and insulin sensitivity how much insulin the body
needs to keep blood sugar levels stable were measured each day. The
results were striking. After four weeks sleeping at 19°C, the men had
almost doubled their volumes of brown fat.
Tests showed they
burned more calories throughout the day when their bedroom was cooler
(though not enough to lose weight) and their insulin sensitivity had
also improved. Senior author, Francesco S. Celi, said the study showed
that over time, sleeping in a cold bedroom could lessen the risk of
diabetes. Michael Symonds, professor of Developmental Physiology at the
University of Nottingham and an expert on brown fat, says sleeping naked
may be beneficial.
“Brown fat can produce 300 times more heat
than any other body organ, meaning if you can keep it activated for a
prolonged amount of time you’d be less likely to lay down excess energy.
“So, anything you can do to try to activate it, such as lowering the
thermostat and sleeping in the cold, may be of benefit,” he said.
But
room temperature shouldn’t be below a level at which you feel
comfortable, otherwise you won’t sleep. People who tend to feel hot at
night and like to sleep naked, may have a high amount of brown fat,
which causes them to feel warmer than others.
Lower blood pressureCosy
pyjamas are tempting, but if you share a bed with a partner, going nude
will generate a generous boost of oxytocin, a hormone that has been
shown to have a wealth of health benefits.
“It is triggered by
closeness, particularly skin-to-skin contact,” says Dr Kerstin
Uvnas-Moberg, a physiologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences and an expert on oxytocin.
“Sensory nerves on the skin
send impulses to the brain, triggering the release. “When a baby is
placed on its mother’s chest, the blood in mother and child starts to
pulse with oxytocin,” he said. Oxytocin has a protective effect on the
heart, as it lowers blood pressure. It also boosts the immune system and
reduces anxiety. “But it only works if skin-on-skin touching is
something you’re happy with,” he added.
Boost your love lifePeople
who sleep naked have happier love lives, according to a survey of 1,000
British adults by a bedsheet company this year. The study found 57 per
cent of nude sleepers were happy with their relationship, compared with
48 per cent of pyjama wearers and 43 per cent of nightie wearers (onesie
wearers were just 38 per cent).
Sleeping naked is a good strategy
for those with body image issues, says Denise Knowles, sex therapist at
counselling charity Relate.
“You can slip under the sheets and
then take your clothes off, and then you can be touched, even if you
don’t want to be looked at. “Pyjamas might give the message ‘not
tonight,’ but equally a lot of couples have a lot of fun taking each
other’s clothes off,” she said.
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