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Temperature Gradient Sleep Optimization

Meaning

Temperature Gradient Sleep Optimization is the deliberate clinical and environmental strategy of manipulating the difference between core body temperature and peripheral skin temperature to enhance sleep quality and duration. The body naturally creates a positive thermal gradient, cooling the core by warming the extremities, as a biological signal to initiate and maintain sleep. Optimizing this gradient, often through targeted cooling of the sleep surface or the ambient air, is a powerful technique for consolidating restorative deep sleep and improving nocturnal hormonal release patterns.