Hot Bath
Michael explores why making hot baths a regular part of your routine could help your heart and help you get to sleep.
In this episode, Michael takes a long soak in the bath, and explores why it might be good for our heart, metabolism and sleep. He speaks to one of the UK’s leading sleep experts, Professor Jason Ellis, Director of the Northumbria Sleep Centre, to find out why a hot bath a couple of hours before bed can help us get to sleep. They discuss the interplay of responses in your brain and body that work together to get your body ready for rest - and why a hot bath one to two hours before bed can help kick start the process… Crucially, it is not the warm, relaxing bath that’s important, but what happens afterwards.
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- Sun 30 May 2021 11:45Â鶹Éç Radio 4
- Sat 5 Jun 2021 19:45Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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