What do you do when experiencing insomnia? Maybe you’ll try to make myself sleepy with a tacky watch on television, read a boring book, to take medication to sleep.
But there are other ways to overcome this difficulty sleeping, compress your head with cold water.

Doctors from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine conduct an experiment to address patients who suffer from insomnia. A total of 12 people with primary insomnia (who have trouble sleeping due to stress) and 12 patients with a controlled health care, given a plastic hood containing cold water on the scalp and forehead. Therefore, people with insomnia are known to have higher brain activity than those who do not have sleep disorders.

Well, the hood is apparently lower the temperature the prefrontal cortex, the brain is pushed to sleep soundly. As a result, brain activity slows down, and pushed him to rest.

After wearing the special hood, these insomnia sufferers fall asleep quickly. They only took 13 minutes to fall asleep, which means even more rapidly than healthy patients (that requires an average of 16 minutes to fall asleep). Both groups of respondents also spend 89 percent of their time in bed to sleep soundly.

“The most meaningful finding of this study is that we can get a beneficial impact for people with insomnia through a mechanism that is safe, and easily available at home,” explains Dr. Eric Nofzinger, one of the research team.
Nevertheless, the idea of ??wearing headcap of cold water may not be as easy as it sounds.For example, how cold temperatures? In addition, most of us would feel uncomfortable when put something cold on the head, especially in bed.

In a study two years earlier, the specialists of sleep problems in England had suggested a more simple way to cool the body. According to Professor Jim Horne of Loughborough University, you can put a fan next to the bed to blow cool air toward the face. As soon as the cold blood flowing from his cheek to the heart, blood will flow along the arteries carrying blood warmer in the other direction from the brain.
“The blood of the cooler enters the brain, and cause sleep more soundly. You just need a little gust of wind towards the face,” he explained.