Wearing socks to bed can improve the quality of your sleep, according to sleep medicine physician Keisha Sullivan of Kaiser Permanente in Largo, Maryland.
Wearing socks to bed helps cool the body’s core temperature, which helps prepare your body for sleep and helps support a person’s natural circadian rhythm.
“Those warm extremities cause your blood vessels to what we call vasodilate, or open up, releasing heat,” Sullivan said. “It’s when the heat is released that our core body temperature decreases.”…