With temperatures souring across the UK, deciding what to wear can be a hard task. The 'less is more' approach when it’s 28 degrees isn’t easy if your job is super corporate and requires you to suit up.
However, when it comes to nightwear in a heatwave, chances are you have only one simple option: sleeping naked AKA the only way to keep cool when catching up on your beauty sleep in the summer months.
But whether sleeping sans pyjamas is a seasonal choice or not, you’re totes doing the right thing. According to new research from the American Academy of Sleep Science, sleeping nude has major benefits on your overall health.
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The study shows that naturally your body temperature will drop a little when you enter a deep sleep, due to the chemical cortisol which helps to maintain core body temperature. However, layering up for bedtime can make you feel hotter and disrupt your sleep cycle – causing increased anxiety, low mood and poor immunity.
When Marilyn Monroe revealed the only thing she wore to bed was ‘Chanel No 5’, she revealed her best kept beauty secret. As Huffington Post reports, sleep is the ultimate anti-ageing treatment, as it encourages the release of youthful hormone melatonin, released when body temperature drops.
Just one more reason we’ll be sleeping in the buff tonight…
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