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What Things Are We Do WRONG Every NIGHT that affect our sleep and generally be bad for our health?!
Join us as we take you through a typical evening routine, and learn about all the things you're doing wrong every night according to science.
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I find that browsing KZhead videos puts me right to sleep... Problem is, I drop my phone on my face or chest, but that's my cue to hang it up! 😴
I'm glad that I'm not the only person to do this 😂 I used a tablet holder so I don't need to hold it until I fall asleep; the only thing that hinders me to automatically fall asleep is my glasses, I must wear them off before sleeping
Yes! We are a select few.
💯! I often have to look around and follow the charging cord to find my phone on the floor next to me LOL
Yes i know that. Allways hit my face😂
Yea, I listen to them more than watching them. Light doesn't bother me though. I sleep best in the daytime so if I turn on a light or phone, I might fall asleep. For some weird reason I fall asleep holding my phone and not dropping it. I wake up after the video ends, then I put the phone down, I have no idea how this can happen.
I love how those studies assume people sleep in one of the positions! I use all 3 positions multiple times a night!
"avoid blue light before bed" *has an all blue background*
Nah dawg its red
I work night shift as a Security Guard and sleep during the day. Any suggestions for how I could get a better sleep? Would it be better for me to sleep during the morning right after I get off work or stay up a bit and sleep in the early afternoon? Is pacing around at work better than sitting and relaxing? Does always wearing sunglasses during the day when outside negatively effect my ability to sleep when I’m inside? Does wearing a face mask over my eyes negatively effect my sleep quality in the long run?
Get TF OFF night shift!! Your body simply CAN’T adjust to that as a regular daily schedule…
12:15 Maybe use a warm color light/tone on your screen or set it to a black screen. Maybe sleep when you fall asleep at home. I think balance is good. Like between relaxing and some activity. Listen to something relaxing to help you fall asleep. You can look up your questions.
@@zeebest1004 not everyone has that option...
Exercise during work and sleep in a pitch black room
Yes it CAN adjust. I've been doing it for over a decade. No problems.
Why does hearing Robin & Stu's voices make me so happy? I think I'll sleep well tonight.
Happy it helps 😊
@@DebunkedOfficialI'm being serious here : Has this guy voiced television documentaries ? His voice sounds Very familiar . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
@@Friendship1nmillion He has voiced audio books and used to be the voice of the Alltime Movies and Alltime Conspiracies KZhead Channels. Hope that helps.
In summer I mostly shower late, nice to know that thats good^^ Sadly, my room is almost impossible to cool below 24° C in summer because the building is very new and isolated pretty good (no there is no AC), keeping windows open the whole night only brings it down from 25+ to about 24
You're not alone with your temperature problem mate
I cannot sleep when I am hungry, so eating in late evening is absolutely fine for me, overeating on the other hand is not. Sleeping position is a weird one, I tried to look into that one and I found a lot of contradictory papers and no really well done study with big enough and random enough sample. I am stick what feels the most comfortable.
There may be other medical conditions that affect your optimum sleeping position.
So that's why being a side-sleeper I always unintentionally embraced the blanket with my legs. Seems to be for the same reason as they recommended a pillow here
Not me watching this at 4 am
😆 Go to sleep!
I use a blue light filter for my computer, and use smart lighting to adjust color temps in the morning and evening, and I wake up almost every morning feeling energized... having had no problems falling asleep. I sleep on the floor most nights, and the only thing that I've found to keep me from falling asleep is not being comfy. That is almost always solved by turning to my other side, at which point I'm usually out in less than 5 minutes.
Considering we went from exercising up to 4 hours in the prehistoric era to 0 in the modern era it definitely explains a lot.
More like damn near the whole day
I don't think Alot can be explained. He simply exists in all his furry grandeur
@eugene3883 Most of the daily activities were actually attainable in very little time, which is why in most societies, even H&G, you would have plenty of free time.
It's somehow funny, that if I got exhausted by exercise or work over the day, I'll have a really hard evening, trying to find any sleep, because when I get home, all that tiredness completely goes away in about 10-30mins of being back home and transforms into "I wanna do more" from my body and mind...
same lol
I do get pretty tired from a workout. I can't do it right after work because my whole day would consist of work, workout & sleep.
I eat late, watch screens until bedtime, the room temperature would rarely be below 21 deg C, sleep on mainly my stomach with a firm pillow and don't have problems in going to sleep and don't suffer neck or back pain but I do exercise during the day and consider myself resonably fit.
Blue light from screens affecting sleep is a misinterpretation of the data. Much more important is to get a lot of light on the middle of the day..the amount of light entering the eye from screens is not really sufficient to significantly stimulate the melanopsin system. The real issue is sitting in the office midday - which is 1000 - 10000 times dimmer than outside. So insufficient signals are sent to the brain to tell us when is the midday peak.
I agree with the food topic, I hate that I end up eating dinner at 2am before I head to bed. I hate this. But thankfully (for some reason) watching educational videos help me fall asleep as I learn. I fall asleep quickly and eases my mindset.
You'll figure it out, buddy!
Very useful information! Splendid work man.
Thanks 😊
All your videos are brilliant and your funny as well keep making more please better than anything on tv well done
Can you talk about young and old then ancient forests and there co2 uptake differences. Also at the same time explaining why more co2 with less trees = darker green but doesn't mean its good for the plants or earth.
Very interesting topic.
@@DebunkedOfficial is that a yes?
As a welder/fabricator I wouldn't dream of going to bed without showering before hand. I would literally turn the bedsheets black. Even on my days off I wouldnt feel great getting upto 'after hours activities' with a days worth of sweat and other nasties lingering around. I'm definitely in the shower before bed camp.
Same here 😂
You’re so real for this 🙏😘
I'm 61 I work on a building site. My back and calf muscles hurt every day, they still hurt in the morning. I've just brought another turnaround project to do when I get home from work. I never get a good night's sleep
Great video. Thank you.
Fun fact: Studies concluded that how much weight you lose has to do with how you *feel* about your activity level, not how much activity you actually do. Specifically, this study was done looking at a person's job. If people merely *think* their job is physically demanding, regardless of how many calories they burn at work, resulted in healthier weights and more weight loss during dieting. Also, I have had insomnia all my life and still do. Before I was taking prescription medications for it, I would often drink beer and other alcohol to help fall asleep. Although it would get me to fall asleep quickly and reliably, I would wake up a few hours later with MAD anxiety and couldn't go back to sleep for the life of me. Often I would feel worse the next day after drinking then if I hadn't slept at all. Case in point: see a doctor if you have trouble sleeping. EDIT: About the temperature thing, I *always* turn the thermostat down a degree or two when I go to sleep (both in winter and summer) or I literally cannot sleep. I cannot fall asleep when it is too warm, and I set my thermostat to 72 in summer and 67 in winter, which is actually lower than most people I know. I do that primarily to save money, as those settings are the borderline to being uncomfortable. But I set them 1 or 2 degrees lower before I go to bed. If not, I wake up sweating profusely and cannot go back to sleep, if I even fall asleep at all. The week my air conditioner broke and while I was waiting for it to get repaired was probably the worst sleep I ever had in my entire life. All week.
I sleep perfect in a heartbeat, all night and I don't train at all... Unless you count running in cod training 😂 Maybe because I love sleeping my body loves it as well.
Wow guys get a load of Mr perfect sleep over here next thing you'll be telling us you have a roof over your head too lol like if you're going to lie at least make it believable 😆
Ahh yes, Mr perfect sleep, that's a good nickname actually, thanks for the input 😂 anyway, that's me.. And if you don't believe it I couldn't care less, you're just one guy on the other side of the world 😂
I just wonder why you watched this video-was it to see if you do everything to the letter or see if you’re just naturally a perfect sleeper regardless of your surroundings or exertion levels and such?
I always smile when I see an upload from this channel.
😊
About the best temperatures to keep the bedroom. I dont think that is universal. Some hot countries like mine have an average temperatures ranging from 27-32°C. Amd growing up in such environs males any temperature below 20°C so cold. So imagine a temperature of 18°C in the bedroom. Itll need a lot of getting used to. Short,i think the temperature of comfort vary from person to person And heavily dependent on temperature you grew up in
I figured out that the lights on my ALienware m18X mimicked firelight. Sleeping by that machine was comforting to say the least.
Where did the timeline chart come from? I’d like to use this as a reference to help with sleep and daily living.
Over the coming week I’ll make a shareable image version and upload it to the community tab. 👍 Thanks
Very useful information, thanks!
Thanks for watching
Decent video for the intended purpose, but there are a few problems, mainly in the sleep position segment. Flat on your back is NOT the best sleeping position, as while it does provide the best passive vertebral alignment it also brings a significant aspiration hazard (choking on your own saliva or nose secretions), the safest sleep position is lateral. Also the second pillow between the knees, while based on real (older) research, has been debunked years ago for multiple reasons, the simplest one being that most people don't stay motionless during sleep and impeding leg movement activates autonomous defense reflexes, stimulating the RAS and consequently lowering sleep quality.
Listening to minute 3:47 while having dinner at 5am hitted me hard 😢. Greetings from spain 🇪🇸
But what about sleeping with a small light on?
For me there is nothing that keeps me awake for longer than getting into an ice cold bed in winter 😖 The bedroom itself I keep quite cool all year round, but I have an electric blanket on in bed in the winter and hour or so before I go to bed 🤷♀️ I fall asleep very quickly in a nice warm bed but an ice cold bed will see me lying awake for ages until my body heat has warmed up the bed and blankets. I agree on taking a shower before bed ☺️ Very relaxing.
I always take my toddler out to run and play in the afternoon and I constantly recommend others do it, because not only does it give them some good sensory play but it also burns all that last bit of energy and he sleeps through the night regularly 👍🏻
How much earlier should I exercise before bed if i shouldn't do it right before but only find the time then sadly
Best thing I did for my sleep was purchase a Wenatex mattress. Expensive unless you notice it’s already outlasted two high quality inner spring mattresses!
I stayed in a Premier Inn Air con crap no window to open no fan, I couldn't get the setting below 21c . Bad night sleep
11:54 - well, there's an alternative here... if you *don't* watch interesting videos, that may actually make you sleep faster... what I have been doing for a long time is watching videos without audio about metal pouring (BigStackD) or some restauration videos... most of the time I don't even finish the video, since I almost left my mobile fall... I think it deserves a little bit more of investigation...
Interesting proposition, expect there's one big issue with that method. One that I've experienced often. You often fall asleep at a random position. Tjis is especially true if you're holding a smartphone, as it causes your body -mostly your arms- to go limp at awkward positions. As a result, you end up with a bit of pain if you remain like that for the rest of your night.
I want to participate in such studies if they investigate this. I watch KZhead videos too 30-60 minutes before sleeping. As long as they are not stimulating videos, I usually have a good night sleep
9:14 Due to me being underweight, I am often shivering at 65 degrees Fahrenheit...
This explains why I can't sleep even though I do heavy exercise during the day - I feel unfit and unwell.
Interesting. Everyone I have known with major sleep apnea sleeps mostly on their back, which goes against the research.
I never heard of scientific research on weed and sleep, sometimes I feel it helps, other times no, depending on the amount, less usually is better for sleeping, and also, whenever I quit smoking for a few days, dreaming gets realy vivid.
@9:20 (ish) surely this depends on preference. I like a cool environment with no draft. But those who like a draft could have a warmer environment
I can’t sleep on my back no matter how tired I am if I try to sleep on my back then I won’t fall asleep and my neck and shoulders hurt every day so no idea what to do there
Night shift for phones. Also for PC users. f.lux is fantastic. based on your timezone changes your screen to a WARM light
I came usually fall asleep when watching KZhead before bed. I am kinda feeling myself nodding off as i type. So likely goin to bed after this video lol
honestly, the light part, we as humans already screwed it up too much, at a normal nighttime we are at home with lights everywhere.
Speaking about sleep i'm quite surprised that you don't cover the effect of having sex or masturbating before sleeping, as most of men i know (including my self) do this as a sleeping tablet when they have a random insomnia attack.
Thanks for the video! Has always it was very instructive. However, as a physio I totally disagree with the part talking about the good position for sleeping. There isn't bad or good posture : the best mouvement is the next one ! And it's perfect because you move during sleep. Try to put a pillow between your knees at night and see if it stay until the morning. Not sure that's work very well...
I've found it's a lot easier to just take melatonin before going to bed, rather than messing around with all this. Sleeping much better now!
I do not use melatonin before bed, it gives me extremely vivid dreams and I tend to feel unrested at night because my dreams are so active. I sleep but tend to spend the entire night involved in what ever activity I dreamed about. I wake up still wanting to finish whatever I started in my sleep
my message was deleted (i guess it's because i was linking studies), but bottom line is: best position to sleep with less apnea/snoring is on the side, as shown by different studies
Best tip. Don’t watch this video 6 hours before bedtime: the aggravating, irrelevant, and distracting “music” will put you on edge for hours.
or you just wear a sleeping mask in bed while a podcast is playing. That way the monitor isn't shining in your eyes in the night and the pesky sunrise doesn't wake you up so early(before noon)
insane how bloody complex biology and psychology is, but atleast it's objective and humans can mostly measure it I guess
I love it how I’m watching this before I go to bed 😂
5:51 Smoooth operator, smoooth operator 🎵
Most Japanese have a routine that includes shower then bath in the evening after dinner.
But I'm confused about the phone light part. Idk if this comment will get any response, but it's worth a tru. So the issue is the light tricking your brain into thinking it's daytime, right? But even if I don't use my phone there's still my bedside lamp which is a source of light. I doubt there's that many people sitting in absolute darkness doing nothing an hour before bed time. So why's the phone light bad by my bedside lamp ok?
Can you make next video about Differents between Driving with 2 wheelers 🏍️. and 4 wheelers 🚗 Which one is good?
From an environmental perspective or to be the fastest, or the most powerful?
Yeah, the difference is that one has a whole two more wheels than the other one.
@@DebunkedOfficial Yes, So We can understand advantage and disadvantage by all these reasons And then we can prepare ourselves to buy or use our vehicles.
I usually have more solid sleep when drinking alcohol than i do when not drinking alcohol.
So it turned out the whole video was against my routine,its good the video got uploaded on right time to make some habitual changes
Yeah I work a labor-intensive job from 4pm-10pm, don’t eat until I get home, usually only shower in the mornings, and we keep the thermostat around 74F cause AC bills are expensive. I’m doing literally everything this video tells me not to do out of necessity :/
I always get longer relaxing sleep when I sleep with socks on and somehow I always get short quality sleep with the least clothing I can have
Probably your body having fluctuating inner tempature due to the lack of clothing.
@@jyoster6447 are you trying to say hes too cold?
Same!
@@LR-vw8yu Consistent body temperature is something that shouldn't be ignored.
Me too, plus ear plugs.
What about falling asleep in front of the TV?
When it comes to fitness, it's the thought that counts.
Well, I think, I'm a fat ass...
Watching this in bed, 3 hours after my midnight shower lmao
Shit, i eat mostly 1 or 2 hours, around 23:00, before i go to bed. And of course i watch some funny memes in bed... But i sleep pretty well. Especially since i wake up at 8 in the morning and got this time regulary. In the past i did go between 3:00 or 4:00 in the night in bed. Shitty stuff.
11:45 “that’s a cool fact!” “Oh it’s 10:30” Yayy….
What other things might people be doing wrong every night?
…. Really? 🫣🤐😘
Not having enough diversity in food thx to monocular farms so we eat 5 main grains thats kinda high in starches. More diversity new food im 22 and fing bord why do I need to find places way out of the normal shopping areas to sketchy places to find markets with new food come on people change a little.
It depends on habits or mistakes and lifestyle of the person
The night is when the world is quiet and people like me thrive. I don't want to go to sleep for as long as possible because there's so much I can do and there's no one to bother me.
Please cover tires, all-season vs snow tires. Where I'm going they say all-season are useless in winter.
Exercise makes my sleep worse. My oxygen deprived sore as shit muscles make me fidget and keep me awake.
avoid looking light 1 hour before bed is impossible. I couldn't sit in my bed doing nothing for 1 hour xd
When you toss and turn and sleep on the side, belly and back 💀
Mommy always told me that I should put away the phone and other electronics for an hour. I'm hoping to do that. ^^
My mum told me exactly the same x
You make sure you let your mommy know I said hello and do me a favor and see if she's decided on a name for your new baby sister. thanks chief!
I go to sleep on my side yet wake up on my back... what that mean?
I don't tailor my fluid intake to time of day, and despite that, I have no difficulty sleeping through the night. Oh, and 95%+ of my fluid intake is just water.
65 degrees? That is much to cold for me, I keep my house at 77 at night and sleep very comfy. anything under 70 is to cold
0:00 already failed what the video said to do.
Scrolling on my phone before bed makes me go to sleep
Uh boy, I am currently drinking and eating about an hour before I sleep while watching this.
"What people think is more important than what people do." AKA The placebo effect
Rate my sleep: Every night, I play the guitar from 11 - 1am then smoke a minimum of 3 cigarettes till 3 am either working in my computer as I overthink about my crush who friend zoned me... Then have a troubled sleep till 10 am then continue on with the day, until the cycle repeats. I look like a panda bear with dark circles over my eyes.
Idk about ur sleep but no one can friend zone you, you can only put yourself in the friendzone, so stop that if you feel like its taking away from your sleep
And to people that dont understand what that means it feels like im trying to be philosophical or something but im really just stating the obvious
@@LR-vw8yu Right on. I'd also add that humans have this one crucial detail they call "emotions". Something to consider.
bad sleep should not be your biggest concern. your biggest concern should be your neighbours murdering you.
I sleep on my stomach and don't have any problems with it.
Falling asleep to this video as I type
I've done all of these in the span of a week
Shower before bed for hygiene? There are still tons of patients who think bathing removes their natural oil. They think their stench is an 'aphrodisiac' scent.
Between 60 and 67 Fahrenheit? That's freezing!
Sleeping on my back is weird
I agree, I lay there for a while trying it but end up on my side.
Lol I agree. Although, I always fall asleep on my side and wake up on my back.
Can u talk about heart attack in small age people get cardiac arrest in even younger age
A ‘myths about the heart’ video is a potential for the future so that is something that could be incorporated there. Thanks
@@DebunkedOfficial ☺️
1:45 Something’s not adding up…
I WAS LITTLERY gonna exercise a bit before sleeping for like the first time in my life, and I said after this video ☠️ well not anymore
😆 sorry, something as simple as a few stretches before bed should be OK, but save the exercising for the morning 👌
If I am the least bit chilly I can not fall asleep at all. If I get chilly when I am already asleep I will wake up.
If your shower is 3-4 minutes long, you probably aren't taking good care of your hair lol.
i Workout before bed and i sleep like a baby.
Nope. I can eat, drink coffee or just about anything else and I can fall asleep in less than 5 minutes.
Me who's watching this video in bed. Damn I have to wait an hour to sleep, oh well I let me go to the next video to pass time
It turns out watching this video is keeping me from sleeping
Oops 😬
Watching this wide awake ⏰️ at 4 a.m.
😬 Go to sleep! 😆
So… no activities before bed, but what‘s up with the typical bedroom activity? Should you have sex only in the morning? But i‘m not really awake until my lunch break 🤨
debunking this debunking....might be not good to eat before sleeping because if indigenstion....BUT eating makes one sleepy...so....