Six Awesome Benefits of Sleeping Naked You Didn’t Know

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Sleeping naked is healthy. Burning calories and improving circulation are just some of the benefits you can enjoy when you sleep nude. If you can reap such handsome rewards for your health, why wouldn’t you want to ditch your pyjamas when you climb into a nice comfortable bed at night?

What you won’t know, however, is that sleeping in the buff isn’t just about being healthier. Doing so has extra benefits. Here are some unexpected reasons to get your kit off before you go to sleep.

Sleeping naked helps you sleep better

That’s a fact. Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have found that jumping into bed naked increases your sleep depth and reduces the number of times you wake up at night. 

Why’s this so important? When we get into a deep sleep, the body removes toxic proteins that hinder our performance from neurons in the brain. These toxins stop us from thinking clearly, solving problems and from being creative. 

What temperature would be best? A good temperature for a room is 16 to 18ºC. You could get restless if the temperature is over 24ºC. If the temperature is 12ºC or below, the room may be too cold for you to fall. Open your windows in summer to help keep your bedroom and allow the air to circulate. 

Sleeping naked builds confidence

We don’t see ourselves naked much because we wear clothes all day. Although we don’t realise it, this decreases our body confidence. Sleeping naked soon straightens that out by forcing us to regularly see ourselves in the buff the last thing at night and first thing in the morning. We grow confident of our body and more accepting of it. The confidence doesn’t end there, though. We start to feel better about ourselves and that we can take on new challenges and succeed. 

Sleeping naked can improve your relationships

Research by the cotton trademark Cotton USA has found that if you sleep naked with your partner, you’re more likely to have a happy relationship. In the survey of more than 1,000 Brits, 57% of those who slept in the nude said they had a happier relationship than 47% of those who wear pyjamas. Experts believe that skin-on-skin contact encourages couples to engage in intimacy due to the chemical oxytocin and be open with each other.

Sleeping naked reduces stress

It’s always nice to slip in between the bed covers any day, but sleeping naked reduces stress. It’s all about the biological impact of keeping your body cool. When our body overheats, it produces lots of cortisol. This steroid hormone floods our system to help us combat stress, but it increases our heart rate, too. By keeping cool at night, we lend our body a helping hand to regulate cortisol and keep check levels for a more peaceful sleep.

Sleeping naked can spare you fungal infections

Sleeping with wear on can make your private parts sweaty, whereas sleeping without any underwear allows your nether regions to breathe. This means you stand less of developing an unpleasant fungal infection. Infections such as yeast infections thrive in moist conditions, and exposing your private parts to the air’s drying effects can be helpful.

Sleeping naked makes your life easier

Have you ever thought about how much easier your life could become if you sleep naked? You don’t have to clean them or put them away, so you save time and some space in your drawers or cupboard. Will you have to clean your sheets more? It is a little, but nowhere near as much as you have to clean your pyjamas when they run out.

On the hot summer evenings, you may feel tempted to strip off all your clothes so you can get some sleep. You have every reason to now. You can enjoy lower stress levels, become a more confident version of yourself, sleep better and even make your life that little bit easier. Who wouldn’t want that?

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