Recently I heard a podcast by the BBC's 'go-to' health guru, Dr Michael Mosley, in which he extols the virtues of sleeping in a cool bedroom.
Excuse me if this comes across as slightly pedantic, but I was left wondering what the good Doctor was referencing exactly. Part of me assumed he was highlighting the air temperature, nothing more than that. Fine, except I happened to hear that podcast in a warm cosy bed at the time, and it set me thinking - in particular by what is meant by a cool bedroom. Yes, the air may be cool in the room itself, but due to the bedding material my body temperature was a great deal warmer than that. Considerably so, in fact. So are the benefits of a cool bedroom purely respiratory, that's to say independent of bodily warmth? Or should one remove that extra duvet and shiver healthily?
Or what. . . exactly?
