The Secret To A Healthier, Longer Life? Sharing A Bed With Your Partner & Sleeping Naked - Study. What Do You Think?

Happy & Healthy Couple

Want to live a longer, healthier life? Better find someone to share your bed then. New research collected by The Wall Street Journal shows that snoozing in the same bed as your partner can drastically improve your health and ease anxiety. Erm, amazing.

One theory is that the act promotes feelings of safety and security and that shared sleep in healthy relationships may lower levels of cortisol, a stress hormone. All sounds pretty darn good to us.

Previous studies have suggested that those who share beds often have more disrupted sleep, due to cover-stealing, snoring and other general bad bed habits. (Not us, never). But it is thought that the health benefits associated with bed-sharing hugely outweigh the hours of sleep lost from it – suggesting that the 24 per cent of people who sleep in a different room from their partner should perhaps reconsider. So, to sum it up, if you’re feeling stressed, don’t just have a ‘smash and dash’, save some time for good old bed cuddles too.

On another note, a new survey has revealed that those who sleep naked have a happier relationship *burns all fleece pyjama sets*. The study from Cotton USA asked couples what they slept in at bedtime and then asked them to rate how happy they were in their relationship.

The results showed that 57 per cent of those who slept in the nude said they felt happy, compared to 48 per cent of pyjama wearers, 43 per cent of nightie wearers and a mere 38 per cent of onesie wearers.

Stephanie Thiers-Ratcliffe of Cotton USA said that one of the leading factors for this was that the nakedness encouraged intimacy and openness, thanks to the skin-on-skin contact and the feeling of soft bedding. Source: www.metro.co.uk