Five Night Routine Mistakes A Neuroscientist Would Never Make

We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about the sleep rules a neurologist follows for healthy ageing.

And now, that same expert – Dr Matthew Walker, Neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Bioengineering at the University of Texas at Dallas – has shared the evening routine mistakes he’d never make.

Speaking to HuffPost UK, he said: “The mistake most people make at night is assuming sleep is like a light switch – flick it off and you’re out.

“Sleep is far more like landing a plane. It takes time to gradually descend onto the runway of good sleep,” he continued.

He added, “A few things that keep the plane circling” are:

1) Going to bed too hot

“Our body has to drop its core temperature by about one degree Celsius to fall asleep and stay asleep, which is why a cool bedroom – around 18°C – beats a warm one,” the expert said. 

Interestingly, though, “A hot bath [or s...