By the year 2099, hotter “suboptimal temperatures” may reduce sleep by 50 to 58 hours per person each year, according to a new study of adults from around the world.
, which looked at data from people around the world, suggests that by the year 2099, "suboptimal temperatures" may reduce sleep by 50 to 58 hours per person each year.
"Our results indicate that sleep — an essential restorative process integral for human health and productivity — may be degraded by warmer temperatures," the study’s lead author, Kelton Minor of the University of Copenhagen, said in aMinor said the study was the first "planetary-scale evidence" that warmer-than-average temperatures erode human sleep.
"Our bodies are highly adapted to maintain a stable core body temperature, something that our lives depend on," Minor said. "Yet every night they do something remarkable without most of us consciously knowing — they shed heat from our core into the surrounding environment by dilating our blood vessels and increasing blood flow to our hands and feet."
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