Why you should sleep in a cool bedroom

Turn down the thermostat, crack a window, and ditch the blankets for some science-backed health benefits.

Wherever we choose to sleep or with whom with
 sleep, ideally it would be cool place.

On cold winter nights, my husband and I often have the same argument: I want the window open, he wants it closed. I think it’s because he grew up in a house where the thermostat always stayed at 21 Celsius (70 F), whereas mine had a wood-burning cookstove in the kitchen that heated downstairs but left the rest of the house feeling like an ice box.

If research turns out to be accurate, then my preference is the healthier one. Scientists are now surmising that humans’ lack of cold exposure could actually be harming us. We spend our lives in climate-controlled spaces, where the temperature doesn’t fluctuate much year-round. If it does get cool, we rush to turn up the heat or put on a sweater, so as not to experience any physical discomfort.

Read the Treehugger story by Katherine Martinko - “Why you should sleep in a cool bedroom.”

(One of the major problems associated with climate change is a steady increase in night time minimum temperatures - people need the cool evenings and nights to allow their bodies to recover. Soaring daytime temperatures exhaust people and the night, that time when the body usually uses the cooler times to recover, are steadily becoming warmer causing a general deterioration of many peoples’ health - Robert McLean)