A good night’s sleep is important for your overall wellbeing, and not getting the right amount of Z’s could result in fatigue or worse issues such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, heart failure or stroke. But what if we told you that you could reduce stress, sleep better, and lose weight in roughly 20 seconds or as fast as you can remove your clothes.
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10 Reason Why Sleeping Naked Is Beneficial for Health
There are several other strategies and mantras to sleep well, but sleeping naked is by far the easiest, because all you have to do is remove your clothes and hop in bed. Adding to this, many of the strategies floating around are less effective than simply sleeping naked. Given that most people do not sleep naked, almost everyone can reap the benefits of sleeping in the buff. Speaking of benefits, here are 10 reasons why you should be sleeping naked.
Better Sleep
You already know that getting good sleep is good for your brain, but if you don’t, here’s why! Medical experts claim that your brain eliminates toxic proteins from its neurons when you’re awake, but this process can only take place when you sleep well. If you don’t get an adequate amount of sleep, the harmful proteins stay in your brain cells, and affect your ability to think. This affects your ability to process information, creativity, problem solving, and results in a surge of emotional reactivity.
Additionally, your body temperature tends to drop a bit as you fall asleep, and then rises to normal when you’re awake. Those cooler temperatures trigger the production of a hormone called melatonin, which regulates your sleep and wake cycles, and consequently provides deep sleep. Wearing clothes to bed can increase your body temperatures, and as a result negatively impact melatonin production, preventing you from getting high quality sleep.
Sleeping Naked Reduces Stress
Prolonged stress isn’t good for anyone as it can increase the risk of heart disease, obesity, depression, suppression of your immune system, and needless to say decreases your cognitive performance. The hormone Cortisol is one of the biggest contributors to high stress levels, and can cause myriad of other problems.
Cooler temperatures in your body help suppress the production of Cortisol, and help you wake up more alert. Furthermore, sleeping in your birthday suit provides skin-to-skin contact, which stimulates the release of a “feel good” hormone called oxytocin. This hormone contrary to Cortisol reduces your blood pressure, boosts your immune system, and lowers your stress and anxiety levels.
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Sleeping Naked Helps You Lose Weight
Getting quality shut eye has a plethora of health benefits, including losing weight. Cooler temperatures in your body accelerate metabolism rates, owing to the fact that it creates more brown fat to keep you warm. Unlike regular old white fat that stores calories, brown fat burns energy and produces heat, and at the rate of approximately a whopping 300 times more than any organ in your body.
This results in a surge of metabolism levels all day long, and helps you shed the extra pounds. In addition to helping you lose weight, sleeping naked also improves blood circulation for better heart and muscle performance and releases the Growth hormone, which is a small protein that provides a plethora of anti-aging benefits including the ability to smooth over skin lesions, spots, and even wrinkles.
Sleeping Naked Improves Your Relationship
The first thing we do when the heat it turned up between the sheets is remove our clothes. However, putting your clothes back on after a session of rustling and tousling in bed could hurt your relationship.
Sleeping encourages emotional and physical activity between couples, mostly due to the soft feeling of bedding pressing against your skin and skin-to-skin contact. Results from a recent study reveal that more than 45 percent of PJ wearing sleepers were unhappy in their relationship, whereas more than 55 percent of nude sleepers were happy in their relationship.
Sleeping in Your Birthday Suit builds Confidence
A high level of confidence doesn’t just make you feel your best, but also encourages you to take on new challenges with ease. When you sleep naked, you feel more comfortable with your skin, and as your comfort level with your body rises, so does your confidence and self esteem.
Sleeping Naked Can Save You Money
Who would’ve thought, but yes it’s true. Sleeping naked with no clothes on means that you no longer have to spend cash on PJ’s and onesies or any other type of clothing you that wear to bed. Not wearing clothes to bed also means that there’s less laundry to deal with hence less detergent used.
Good for Your Skin, and Prevents Infections
A few medical experts say that being too warm at night could disrupt certain anti-aging hormones such as melatonin and other growth hormones that provide your skin with a youthful look. Cooler temperatures increase the production of growth hormones that replace dead cells and repair skin—maybe that’s why we call it “beauty rest”.
Clothing such as underwear and panties can also be tight against the skin, and serve as a breeding ground for bacteria, which can cause infections. Sleeping naked will let your vaginal area air out as long as you sleep, and keep you healthy and clean.
Could Decrease Chances of Breast Cancer
Another benefit of sleeping naked is that it can decrease the risks of breast cancer, and here’s how! Medical studies indicate that wearing tight clothing around your breasts reduces the blood flow to the breast area, which can lead to an increased risk of breast cancer. You may very well need to wear a bra during the day or when you’re on the go, so sleep time is the best time to give your breasts some freedom to move around.
It’s Good for Your Boys
Your testicles are located on the outside of your body because they produce sperm hence need to be at least three degrees cooler than the rest of your body. If you wear boxers and cook up your sperm during the day, it only makes sense to prevent damage to your DNA by sleeping naked during the night.
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Sleeping Naked in the Summer is More Bearable
If you do not have an air conditioner, you already know how stuffy a room can get at night, and going commando can help you feel more comfortable. Even if you do have an AC, sleeping naked and switching it off during cooler nights can save you a few bucks on your electricity bill.
Final Thoughts
Sleeping naked offers some great benefits for you and your partner, but there may be times when it may not be such as good idea such as if it’s cold outside or you’re ill. And you should also refrain from sleeping naked during power naps especially if your kids come home for lunch. Apart from that, sleeping naked is definitely worth a shot, because it can boost your overall health and earn you some brownie points in the bedroom.
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