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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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