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"Healthy Sleep: The New, Surprising Way to Get to Sleep Faster
Do you sometimes have trouble falling asleep? Lately, I've been having trouble shutting my mind OFF! I feel like my brain just keeps going, going, going into the wee hours of the morning, even when I'm really exhausted. No good! Researchers may have something that will help (and it's really surprising)...
It's the curse of insomniacs: not being able to turn your brain "off." And researchers now believe that people who have trouble falling asleep may have more active brains (particularly the frontal lobes) than people who doze off like babies. And those over-active brains are warmer brains, they believe.
The sleep secret? Cool the brain off. When researchers from Rush University Medical Center had people wear special caps that circulated cool water over their heads, it took less time for them to fall asleep (13 minutes) as compared to people with no caps and zero insomnia problems.
The experts believe that cooling off the brain works in the way melatonin does to lower the body's temperature enough for it to get sleepy.
Yes, being too cold will have the opposite effect, but in light of this study, taking a lukewarm shower and going to bed with wet hair might have the same sleepy effects.
Do you take a shower before bed? Does it help you sleep? And, if they developed a "cool cap" would you buy one?"
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