While one in three French people is affected by sleep disorders, it seems that it will not get better over time... Indeed, American academics have conducted a study on the impact of the temperature of our environment on our sleep cycle. And yes, when it's hot, it's often very complicated to fall into the arms of Morpheus. The fault is that our body temperature does not decrease as it should during our sleep cycles. This is one of the reasons that have led scientists to wonder about the possible consequences of global warming. From 2002 to 2011, 765,000 American volunteers rated how many nights a month they slept poorly. Using weather records from their city, the researchers showed that the higher the thermostat, the worse the population got a bad night's sleep.
Worse:one more degree was enough to spend three bad nights to follow! The most affected people would be people with low incomes who do not have the necessary resources to have access to air conditioning as well as people over the age of 65 who may have a deficient thermoregulation system, which makes them more vulnerable. in the heat. With global warming, our sleep could therefore be truly impacted. The study also reveals that the increase in temperature at the earth's surface in the coming years could cause up to six more nights of bad sleep per month. So we haven't finished spending sleepless nights...
