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Counterintuitive part: to fall asleep, your body has to cool down. About two hours before sleep, your core temperature starts falling, dropping a degree before you drift off. Hands and feet get warm: blood vessels open there to dump heat. That heat loss is part of the switch that turns sleep on.

A hot room breaks the switch. With nowhere to dump the heat, your core can't drop and you sleep lighter: more waking, less deep sleep, less dreaming. Humidity makes it worse: sweat can't evaporate.

Numbers: across 765,000 Americans, hotter nights meant more nights of insufficient sleep, worst among the elderly and lower-income households. Data from 12.5 million nights: each 10°C hotter night cost about 2.6 minutes; by 2099 some regions lose up to 24 hours per person per year.

The fix is boring and it works: cool the room (18-20°C, or anything cooler than the street), thin bedding, a fan, cotton over synthetics.

You don't need a sleep app for a hot night. You need a cooler room.

Sources: J Physiol Anthropol 2012; Curr Opin Physiol 2020; Sci Adv 2017; Environ Int 2025.

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