Winter Sleep Habits: Are Your Sweaters & Socks Ruining Your Rest?

• The body needs to lower its core temperature for quality sleep, a process called thermoregulation.
• Warming hands and feet (distal vasodilation) helps dissipate heat, rapidly lowering core body temperature and aiding faster sleep.
• Wearing socks in cold environments can help you fall asleep faster, sleep longer, and wake up less, as supported by studies like in 'Journal of Physiological Anthropology'.
• Socks are beneficial in cold rooms but can cause discomfort if the bedroom is already warm.
• Sweaters are complex: lightweight, breathable ones can aid sleep in very cold rooms, but heavy, tight, or less breathable fabrics can disrupt sleep quality, as per 'Nature and Science of Sleep'.

Why It Matters: Warm feet aid sleep by cooling the body, but heavy sweaters can disrupt rest.