When it comes to bed, everyone has their own habits: a comfortable pillow, the lights completely off, a mattress that’s relatively firm. However, there’s one common action: sticking one foot out of the bed to fall asleep, so necessary for regaining energy and enjoying good health. What does science say about this?

This everyday act corresponds to an important mechanism when we want to fall asleep: the regulation of body temperature.

Sticking one foot out of bed to sleep has a scientific explanation.