Posted by Hugh on May 15, 2014, at 12:52:33
In reply to Re: Using cold works too, posted by Willful on May 15, 2014, at 10:18:20
I've heard about people who take a cold shower before going to bed. Apparently it's the act of cooling off, rather than of being cool, that promotes deep sleep. If you're too cool, or too warm, you'll get very little deep sleep. But if you used a timer to turn on an electric blanket for twenty minutes every two hours, then the act of warming up and cooling off triggers the hypothalamus to produce more deep sleep. That's the hypothesis of the Dutch sleep researchers.
But just using an infrared heating pad for 20-30 minutes at bedtime is working fine for me.
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