Bedding to Beat the Brain Drain

Everyone knows a good night's sleep can make all the difference to how we feel physically and mentally. Quality bedding, clean bedding and comfortable bedding are all crucial to ensuring the best night's sleep possible. The idea of sleeping in dirty bedding, or smelly bedding the dog's slept on all day, or bedding that's simply lumpy and worn out, can make going to bed more of a pain - and worse, it can cause a brain drain!

Bedding to Boost Brain Power

If you want to make sure your brain is performing at its best, you need to sleep well - which is why it's a good move to invest in quality, comfortable bedding. The value of luxury and comfort is especially appreciated in our bedrooms, where we go to recharge, rest and switch off. And research has shown that ensuring our bedding is comfortable and conducive for sleep can impact on our brains. Sleep deprivation can cause the brain to stop producing new brain cells according to Princeton University. The research team said poor sleep can impact on our memory formation, and increase on our levels of stress hormones.

Getting the Bedding Right

As well as investing in comfortable bedding, ensuring your duvet is not too heavy in summer but that you're not too cold in winter, is an obvious way to help boost sleep. Avoiding stimulants such as caffeine, nicotine and alcohol is also recommended, as well as avoiding heavy meals and emptying your mind of anxieties.

Bedding for Two

Aside from these simple steps to help aid sleep, scientists have uncovered an altogether more prickly problem - that bed sharing can disturb sleep quality, especially for men. Scientists in Austria say that sharing your bedding could temporarily reduce your brain power - when sleep is disturbed it impacts on mental ability during the day. It's said that men are more prone to disturbed sleep when with a bed partner (whether they make love or not). The study by New Scientist said that women who share beds and bedding with their male counterparts tend to sleep more deeply. Although any woman who has had to sleep next to a heavy snorer may disagree! Sharing beds can sometimes lead to fights over the bedding, and for who has the most part of the duvet. One of the sleep experts in the study said that sharing bedding is actually 'bizarre'. Dr Neil Stanley told the BBC: "Historically, we have never been meant to sleep in the same bed as each other. It is a bizarre thing to do." He added that sleep was a selfish act necessary for good mental and physical well being - and that separate bed space and bedding was more sensible, adding there was 'no shame' in separate beds.

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