Are you wearing more than your birthday suit to bed? You could be missing out on some serious benefits from sleeping the old fashioned way: buck naked. According to sleep experts, you should be getting about 7 to 9 hours of sleep every night. Must must be nice — for a lot of us, those hours are reserved only for weekends or after a few glasses of wine.

To Noah Grosshandler, sleeping nude feels freeing. For three years now, the year-old technology project manager in New York has shed the boxers and T-shirts he once wore to bed to go au naturel. He just finds slumbering in the buff more comfortable than wearing bunchy underwear. Every night, men and women around the U. According to Dr. Chris Winter, a neurologist and sleep doctor in Charlottesville, Va. As it ticks up, so will your discomfort.

Sleeping naked might not be the first thing you think about when it comes to improving your health, but there are some benefits that might be too good to ignore. Since sleeping naked is pretty easy to try yourself, it might be time to strip down and get your snooze on. For your health, that is.

In fact, the standard pair of underwear raises the temperature down there for men to 37 degrees when it should be less than 33 degrees. This increase in temperature kills off the sperm. White fat is the storage area for your excess calories, and sits around your waist, and thighs. Brown fat sits at your front, and the back of your neck, and burns your calories to generate heat.