Sleep Tip Of The Week - Watch Your Hands
This week’s slip tip is from ABC News. A new study indicates sleeplessness may be due in part to the fluctuating temperatures in your hands and feet.
“Studies show as helathy people fall asleep, blood from the core of the body moves to the limbs. This results in an increase of about one degree Fahrenheit in the hands and feet. In patients with sleep disorders, however, this temperature transfer does not occur. Sleep specialists are now testing temperature biofeedback in insomniacs to replicate the normal temperature response.
‘The best predictor of whether someone is going to fall asleep or not is an increase in their hand and foot temperature relative to their core,” said sleep specialist Mathew Ebben, PhD with The Center for Sleep Medicine in New York.
In normal sleepers, as we doze off the temperature of our hands and feet increases by about one degree. In a recent study, insomniac participants actually learned to change their hand temps through temperature biofeedback — a technique that trains the brain to control temperature responses.”
The solution? Training your brain to initiate this process.
“In a recent study, insomniac participants actually learned to change their hand temps through temperature biofeedback — a technique that trains the brain to control temperature responses. ”
Dr. Ebben reports that 90% of his patients saw improvement with this biofeedback training.
Have a great weekend!
