Sleeping with socks on is either toasty or torture, depending on who you ask. But is it healthy?

By Eileen Bailey, Dec 30, 2024

As you get sleepy, the core temperature of the body lowers, according to the Sleep Foundation. Warming your feet by putting on socks can result in helping your body cool down through vasodilation of blood vessels, says Dr. Alex Dimitriu, double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine and the founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine, in Northern California. And this can help improve your sleep quality. “As the body temperature drops during sleep, people enter deeper stages of sleep,” he tells Yahoo Life. Dimitriu suggests experimenting. “Given the ease of the socks for a sleep experiment, it’s worth a shot,” he says. “Consider monitoring sleep with a tracker to get objective data.”

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