How To COOL Your Body For Better Sleep, INCREDIBLE Travel Sleep Tips & Orion Vs. Eight Sleep With Dr. Michael Breus

Ben Greenfield

Dec 13, 2025

Episode description

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Michael J. Breus, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and both a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is one of only 168 psychologists in the world to have passed the Sleep Medical Specialty board without going to Medical School. Dr. Breus was recently named the Top Sleep Specialist in California by Reader’s Digest and one of the 10 most influential people in sleep. Dr. Breus is on the clinical advisory board of The Dr. Oz Show and on the show (40 times).

Dr Breus pens a monthly column in WebMD magazine, 'Sleep Matters,' and writes regularly for WebMD, The Huffington Post, and Psychology Today. He is also the author of The Sleep Doctor's Diet Plan and Beauty Sleep.

Dr. Breus is the author of 4 books, with his newest was released in Dec of 2024 called Sleep, Drink, Breathe: Wellness is too complicated. This book gives an easy-to-follow 3-week program to teach everyone how these 3 simple biobehaviors are the foundation for wellness.

He is an expert resource for most major publications, doing more than 300 interviews per year.

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Mindsip insights from this episode:

Warm feet to cool body down before bed

Heating just your feet with socks before bed can paradoxically help cool your body by opening blood vessels in the feet, which are excellent at dissipating heat.

#body-temperature

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Avoid heavy covers to enhance cooling in cold bedrooms

Simply making your bedroom cold is often ineffective because you counteract it by creating a warm 'microclimate' under heavy covers, preventing your body from cooling.

#body-temperature

#sleep

Create personalized cooling profile with Orion mattress topper

The Orion mattress topper uses a wearable patch for one night to measure your unique temperature irregularities and create a personalized cooling and heating profile.

#device

#temperature

Enhance hotel pillow support with a rolled towel

For better neck support on overly stuffed hotel pillows, roll up a hand towel and place it inside the pillowcase along the bottom edge.

#recovery

Create a DIY bed cooling system with frozen water bottles

You can test if temperature is your sleep issue by placing two frozen water bottles inside tube socks on either side of your hips to create a personal cooling system.

#DIY

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Avoid alcohol to prevent sleep disruption from heat

Even though it can make you feel sleepy, alcohol has a thermogenic effect that raises your core body temperature, often causing you to wake up sweating.

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Lower core body temperature to signal melatonin release for sleep

The drop in your core body temperature is the primary signal for your brain to release melatonin, the hormone that tells your body it's time for sleep.

#body-temperature

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Request two queen beds for better sleep support while traveling

When traveling, ask for a room with two queen beds instead of a king, as king beds are used more frequently and often develop an unsupportive dip in the middle.