Doctor’s Simple Sleep Hack Goes Viral on TikTok

Dr Jess Andrade has become a TikTok sensation since posting a video suggesting that wearing socks to bed can help improve sleep.  Under the handle ‘DoctorJessss’, her video has now been viewed more than 19.6 million times.

In the 15-second video, the doctor from Massachusetts in the United States explains how the warming effects of the socks on the feet triggers a chain reaction within the body.

“So, let’s talk about people that wear socks to bed.  Wearing socks makes the feet warm and opens up the blood vessels that cools the body down. The body being cool tells the brain that it’s time for bed so actually people that wear socks tend to fall asleep faster,” she said.

Dr Andrade went on to explain that she had not created the ‘sleep hack’ herself but that it actually came from research published in the Physical Behaviour Journal back in 2006, which studied the relationship between foot temperature and quality of sleep. 

The study found that ‘In adults, sleep-onset was accelerated by warm and neural bed socks after lights-off and correlated to the increase in foot temperature’.

Good quality sleep is connected to our overall health and wellbeing and according to a survey carried out by the insurer Aviva back in 2017, as many as up to 16 million UK adults suffer with sleepless nights.

This figure included around 31% suffering from insomnia, whilst around half of the respondents admitted that they didn’t get the right amount of sleep (with 54% of females agreeing to this compared to 41% of men).  The report went on to reveal that around one in ten of respondents took sleeping tablets to aid sleep with a further 13% resorting to alcohol as a means to aid sleep. 

So perhaps pulling our socks up before getting under the duvet could be a positive step in the right direction for a good night’s sleep

 

Want to find more great tips and information on how to get a better night’s sleep?  Click here to read our latest article from Dr Ed Griffiths ‘Insomnia: The Struggle with Sleep’.

 

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Carrie Plummer - Editor & Content Manager


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